What is diabetes mellitus? Diabetes mellitus is when there’s too much glucose, a type of sugar, in the blood. Diabetes mellitus can be split into type 1, type 2, as well as a couple other subtypes, including gestational diabetes and drug-induced diabetes.
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Do you struggle with diabetic foot pain? Get relief with these foot and ankle exercises.
Diabetes is one of the most common reasons people seek relief for painful feet. Thats because when you have diabetes, you are constantly living with high blood sugar levels. The problem is that over the long term, these elevated levels can deteriorate and damage nerves. Specifically, the nerves that are most susceptible are in the hands and feet. Once these nerves break down, it causes the pain you may be feeling. Diabetic foot pain is commonly described by patients as tingling, burning, sharp, shooting, and lightning-like. Other unpleasant symptoms include numbness, feelings of feet and legs being “asleep,” or prickling or crawling sensations.
What can be done for diabetic foot pain relief?
Although there is currently no cure for this complication of diabetes, optimal glucose control helps to prevent diabetic foot pain. That means managing your glucose levels through living a healthy lifestyle, eating well, and exercising are powerful in providing long term relief with positive side effects.
Foot exercises, massage, and using foot rolling devices are excellent ways to help keep those muscles and joints from becoming stiff. Exercises focused on the foot and ankle can bring great benefits. Improving range of motion can positively affect gait, pressure distribution, and risk of foot ulceration. Here are some great foot and leg exercises for anyone managing the condition of diabetic foot pain neuropathy.
These exercises can be done from a chair or the floor. Before starting, take a moment to get the body into good postural alignment with the shoulders back and down and spine lengthened.
This free routine offers you a program to follow to help diabetic foot pain go away. As always, please check with your doctor before starting this or any exercise routine. If you struggle with diabetic foot pain, you should have your feet visually and manually inspected every day. Be prudent, be cautious and follow the rules of good health!
Diabetic Foot Pain Relief. Foot and Ankle Exercises For People With Diabetes
Diabetic foot pain relief exercises
Flex and point the toes
Ankle circles
“Piano toes”
Prancing
Leg Raises
Calf stretch
Single leg balance
Exercise is an important way to prevent and treat diabetic foot pain. You want to keep the muscles working and the joints moving! Make sure to move your body most days of the week. Id recumbent at least 30 minutes of exercise daily (walking, biking, strength training, group fitness classes), anything to get your heart pumping and blood flowing! If your diabetic foot pain prevents you from following a traditional exercise program, check out my Hurt Foot Fitness plan online https://www.hurtfootfitness.com. This coached program offers you a structured strength, cardio, and flexibility daily routine that is safe to do with diabetic foot pain. You’ll get low impact workouts, chair cardio, foot exercises, and MORE. Following this program will help you manage the symptoms of diabetes and get relief from your diabetic foot pain. Enroll in the program here and lets get MOVING: https://www.hurtfootfitness.com
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Raising awareness about raising blood sugar. Diet concerns are one of the first topics a diabetes educator will address.
“Look at how many foods we have you know, look down the aisles at the grocery store. It’s overwhelming the number of food items,” says Sharon Tilbe, a certified diabetes coordinator with Lee Memorial Health System.
To help patients with diabetes make good choices, Lee Heal Solutions offers medical nutrition therapy. It consists of one-on-one time with a dietician.
“We teach a little bit of carbohydrate counting whether its real specific carbohydrate counting or generalities of carbohydrate counting. Making sure that people get adequate whole grains, adequate fruit and dairy in their diet, but not too much to raise their blood sugar,” says Sharon.
Common everyday foods, even ones we don’t suspect, can cause a jump in blood sugar.
“Fruit as an example, would be considered a carbohydrate or a high carbohydrate food in that it has a lot of natural sugar. Milk we don’t think of milk as being a sugar food but of course milk has lactose, which will of course turn into blood glucose. Grains, most people understand that if we eat too much pasta too much rice the blood sugar goes up,” says Sharon.
All things in moderation is a good rule of thumb, a controlling diet can make an absolute difference in managing diabetes.
“Just before you came I took my blood sugar and it was 92, so below 100 is average for regular people,” says George Pickel.
George worked with a diabetes educator to turn his diet around and with it the course of his disease.
“Most people, diets are started and when the goal is achieved people stop the diet. They better realize that eating is a lifelong process,” says George.
It’s a healthy perspective, looking at diabetes as a lifelong journey.
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