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- Diabetes:** When you have diabetes you need to take very good care of your feet every day. If you do this then you can prevent serious complications.
Your feet are at risk because diabetes can cause damage to the nerves and the blood supply. This damage is more likely if:
- You have had diabetes for a long time
- Your blood glucose levels have been too high for an extended period
- You smoke
- You are inactive.
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Growing Pains:* Growing pains are pain symptoms relatively common in children.
Typically, they are located in the muscles, rather than the joints, of the leg and less commonly the arm.
They are usually felt on both sides, and appear late in the day or at night, waking the child, with pain varying from mild to very severe. Pain is absent by the morning, and there are no objective clinical signs of inflammation.
Pain can recur nightly or be absent for days to months. |
- Shin Splints:* Shin splints is a general term used to refer to a painful condition in the shins. It is often caused by running or jumping, and may be very slow to heal. A formal medical term for the condition is medial tibial stress syndrome.
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- Flat Feet or Fallen Arches: * Flat feet (also called
pes planus or fallen arches) is an informal reference
to a medical condition in which the arch of the foot collapses, with the entire sole of the foot coming into complete or near-complete contact with the ground. |
- Pigeon Toe:* Pigeon toe, also called metatarsus varus, metatarsus adductus, in-toe gait, intoeing or false clubfoot, is a condition which causes the toes to point inward when walking.
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- Heel Spurs:* A calcaneal spur (or heel spur) is a radiological (X-ray) finding, and when it is located on the inferior aspect of the calcaneus, is often associated
with plantar fasciitis. |
- Knock Knees:* Genu valgum, commonly called knock-knees, is a condition where the knees angle in and touch one another when the legs are straightened.
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- Stress Fractures:* A stress fracture is one type of incomplete fracture in bones. It is caused by unusual or repeated stress. This is in contrast to other types of fractures, which are usually characterised by a solitary, severe impact.
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- High Arches:* Pes cavus is a medical term for a somewhat unusual condition of the foot, or pes, due to a fixed plantar flexion of the foot. The resulting configuration is a highly arched foot — giving the condition its more common name, high arches — which is the opposite of a flat foot and somewhat less common.
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- Limping: A limp is a type of asymmetric abnormality of
the gait. Limping may be caused by unequal leg lengths, experiencing pain when walking, muscle weakness, disorders of proprioception, or stiffness of joints (eg. in arthritis). |
- Foot Pain and Aching Feet
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- Sports Shoes: we advise on the best sports shoes and support to suit your specific sport
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References:* www.Wikipedia.org, **www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/en/Living-with-Diabetes/Mind--Body/Diabetes--Your-Feet/ |
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