The simplest way to describe what diabetic foot ulcers are is to describe what happens when someone is wearing a shoe and feel a pressure point. In feet that are normal when a pressure point is occurring on the foot the foot naturally and instinctively moves, or adjusts to relieve some or all of the pressure. This means that for shoes which are rubbing a foot the wrong way a normal foot would adjust in a shoe so that the pressure point or spot of irritation is minimized or eliminated.

In people with advanced stages of diabetes many of these pressure points go completes unnoticed due to the effects of peripheral neuropathy and the foot does not adjust to the pressure points that a shoe is putting on the foot. This can result in either the slow and gradual deformation of the foot as joints are realigned and some small bones are even cracked or it can result in sores developing on the skin of the foot. This can result in exterior wounds which need to be cared for.

Unfortunately in many diabetics these wounds can balloon out of control as poor blood circulation can make for very difficult healing.  As wounds increase in size and get infected they ulcerate and continue getting worse and worse.  Diabetic foot ulcers can get so bad that amputation is nessesary and they are almost always the result of a simple cut, scrape, or puncture that a non-diabetic person would hardly give a second thought about.

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