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Spending time on the feet is very important, especially for people with diabetes, as a small lesion may trigger the amputation of the foot and even leg.

Charcot foot is just one of many injuries that can present in patients with diabetes, mainly due to the lack of control leads to loss of sensitivity of the lower extremities.

But what is the Charcot foot?

Every day our feet are exposed to long hours of walking, we can all experience injury, however, when a person has feeling in your legs, stop walking when you feel pain, in the case of a person with diabetes, you already have deficit sensitivity in the area, continue walking, intensifying the injury with the possible destruction of bone and joints, this is what is called Charcot foot.

In other words, the Charcot foot is a complex deformity of the foot, a complication seen as progressive, slow, chronic, painless and occurs in one or more joints due to neurological deficit, such as neuropathy.

It develops as a result of loss of sensation in the feet because the nerves are affected and because of a broken bone that is not detected due to lack of sensation. This evil advances and there is destruction of the soft tissues of the foot.

Without feeling pain, fracture patient continues to make daily life with the broken bone deteriorating medical condition, for which, in most cases only remains the possibility of amputation.

In other cases, joint destruction is severe enough to cause permanent deformities in the foot with bony protrusions. This condition requires special footwear forever.

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