Podiatry

Podiatric medical group launches 'Knock Your Socks Off' to urge foot screenings

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, November 22nd, 2004

Diabetes is the leading cause of nontraumatic foot amputations each year. Feet often show the first signs of more severe medical conditions, such as diabetes, but they often are overlooked by primary health care physicians.

The American Podiatric Medical Association's "Knock Your Socks Off" campaign encourages patients to ask their primary healthcare physician to examine their feet as part of their regular check-up.

With foot disease as the most common complication of diabetes leading to hospitalization, the American Podiatric Medical Association suggests looking for these foot related diabetes warning signs: redness, numbness, swelling, cold to the...

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