Center for Podiatric Medicine announces the latest technique to treat HEEL PAIN.
Local foot and ankle surgeon offers minimally invasive solution for heel pain:
- Chicago, Elmhurst, Melrose Park, Schaumburg, IL, November 2008 - Previous treatment options for heel pain have included painful injections and even more painful surgery. Now, a minimally invasive procedure called Radiofrequency Coblation (Topaz) has the potential to eradicate heel pain. Tens of thousands of people suffer from this disabling and painful condition. Now, an FDA approved technique can put them back on their feet. The procedure takes as little as 10 minutes.
For information regarding this technique and our physicians, please call 847-352-1473.
New Optimism For Patients with Neuropathy
Quantitative Sensory Testing
QST is a preventative and restorative medicine!
Have you ever stopped to think about how important your feet are?
They connect you to the earth, move you around, and play host to a variety of sensations: cool water, a sandy beach, or tickling fingers, to name a few. For those who suffer from diabetic neuropathy, the world can be a dangerous place, devoid of these and many other sensations.
If you are a diabetic, then you have probably heard from one of your doctors about the complications of diabetes. Among the most common and severe side affects is neuropathy, which will occur in approximately 50% of diabetics even with controlled blood sugar. Diabetic Neuropathy is a lack of sensation that affects the diabetic's extremities. Typically the lower extremities are affected first.
Symptoms of neuropathy
Symptoms of neuropathy are the lack of normal sensation that affects extremities. Patients may have a noticed weakness or loss of balance. Numbness, tingling and pain of the heel, the arch, the ball of the foot and the bottom and tips of the toes occurs. Lack of feeling to the diabetic foot is the leading cause of ulcerations, infections, and slow healing wounds and in advanced cases amputation of the toes, feet and legs.
Causes of diabetic neuropathy
The first reason a diabetic nerve becomes compressed is that the nerve is swollen as a result of sugar from the blood stream entering the nerve. This sugar called glucose, which gives the nerve energy is converted into another sugar called sorbitol. Sorbitol's chemical formula makes it attract water molecules. This water that is drawn to the nerve causes swelling. The swelling in areas that are already anatomically tight causes compression of the nerve.