Blisters can form when your shoes rub the same spot ... At least once a year, your doctor should conduct a diabetic foot exam (taking an in-depth look at your feet). During the exam, your doctor ...

You must be vigilant in many areas of your health if you have diabetes. This includes making a habit of daily foot exams, monitoring your blood glucose levels, eating a healthy and balanced diet ...

Listed here are the instructions to do a diabetic foot exam. Clean and dry your feet before you start checking it. Sit on a chair with your legs hanging mid-air. Lift one of your leg and place the ...

A comprehensive foot examination is essential ... usually in the form of a nonhealing ulcer. Identification of patients with diabetes mellitus who are at high risk of ulceration is important ...

The routine foot exam and rapid risk stratification is often difficult to incorporate into an already busy primary care exam. Data suggest that the diabetic foot is adequately evaluated in only 12 ...

There's no cure but you can avoid ulcers and amputation with proper foot care and regular exams. The condition diabetic foot affects about half of people with diabetes. It's a type of peripheral ...

For Check Up 13 this month, if you are at least 18 years old and are a diabetic, or if you have a foot issue you'd like resolved, you may register for a Free Foot Wellness Exam, courtesy Ascension St.

Now, they’re hosting free foot exams for diabetic patients to help them avoid amputation. “It almost always starts with a wound, and then that wound gets infected, and then you might get ...