The Diabetic Foot

The diabetes epidemic that is sweeping the world is being fuelled by many things. There is the obesity epidemic, the lack of traditional exercise, the westernization of traditional diets (I have even heard this called the Coca-Colonisation of traditional societies). It is all adding up to a looming health care crisis. From a podiatry perspective, this means the ‘diabetic foot’. The diabetic foot is that foot that has been placed at increased risk from damage due to the processes of

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