Podiatry Services.
Our feet are the foundation of our bodies.
We stand, sit, walk, run, dance, and exercise, which can eventually take a toll on even the toughest of feet. Your feet do a lot of work. By the time you’re 50, you’ll have walked 75,000 miles on them. Feet are complex structures with many bones, tendons, and ligaments that have to work together perfectly to keep you moving. Podiatry is the area of health that focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of medical and surgical conditions related to the feet and lower legs.
Foot care and diabetes
Foot care is particularly important for patients with diabetes, because serious complications of diabetes that threaten toes, feet, legs and lives are preventable. More than 65,000 patients undergo foot amputations each year because of poorly managed diabetes and lack of proper foot care. Podiatry services offered by Outreach Community Health Centers include initial evaluation, routine monthly foot care, mycotic infection management and procedures, casting, prescribing of appropriate medication, injections to control inflammation and podiatric surgery.