Diabetes, bone and joint damage to the “four sins”
Posted on December 15, 2009
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Uncle Wang diabetes for many years, walking a few days ago suddenly felt Detoxification, and soon the foot swelled up and he thought it was tired, and did not care. A few days later more and more swollen feet, to the hospital for a look, began to realize that a fracture. The doctor told him that fracture and his many years of diabetes-related, thanks to treatment in time, or else are very likely to deformities of the foot.
Diabetes Can also lead to fractures do? Involved in orthopedic patients with diabetes in recent years, more and more problems, such as Wang Abai such a “ridiculously high” fracture of the elderly are not uncommon.
Diabetic damage to bones and joints are mainly the “four sins”:
First, diabetes, leading to legs and feet of the nerves and blood vessels involvement, skin ulceration, and then co-infection, development of osteomyelitis.
Secondly, due to lower limb ischemia, leading to the foot bone and joint changes, particularly foot deformity, such as the arch collapses, hammer toes, hallux valgus and so on. The event of deformed foot, walking coordination deteriorated, feet will be more prominent part of the friction, the skin is more prone to ulceration.
Third, the toes ischemic necrosis, leading to gangrene and ultimately also affect the bones.
Fourth, diabetic neuropathic osteoarthropathy, also known as “Charcot’s joint.” Patients often have many years of history of diabetes, Liu Cheng history of diabetes in patients over more than 10 years, in the absence of any incentives for the middle leg fracture occurred. Uncle Wang is neither excessive exercise, nor a fall, walk fracture occurred.
Diabetic patients with Charcot’s foot fracture, the patient felt pain is often less severe than the general fracture, in addition to local red, swollen, hot performance, very easy to be confused with the infection. If, as X-ray film, will be able to find a fracture and dislocation of joints.
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