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As winter approaches the southern hemisphere, the risks of damage to the feet of people with diabetes increase. The weather turned nasty in Johannesburg last weekend – wet and cold – as a result I saw my first Autumn diabetic foot disaster yesterday. A burn on the big toe of a lady who went to bed with her 'barley bag'. It doesn't have to be barley, rice, lentils, in fact anything that can be heated in the microwave.
'Walking on sunshine.' 'Sexual heeling.' 'Toeing the line.' All headlines for articles recently printed in the South African press taken from The Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Times respectively, all from London. Toeing the line is all about the Chinese tradition of foot binding and I'll pick up on that later this week.
I've just come across an article I wrote a while ago for the South African Journal of Natural Medicine and thought it might be useful as a reminder as we embark on another year.
Bunions are among the most common and frequently most painful of conditions affecting the foot.
Remembering that your feet carry ALL of your weight ALL of the time that you are standing or walking then it is not surprising that the complex structure of your feet sometimes suffers re-alignment as they strive to accommodate our lives and activities. Sometimes we do not help matters by forcing our feet into unsuitable or badly fitting shoes.
