Sentences with phrase «foot and leg amputations»
Further, foot blisters and other diabetic ulcers or sores account for the vast majority of foot and leg amputations in the United States today.
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Each year in the United States 40,000 diabetics get kidney disease, up to 24,000 go blind, and 82,000 have amputations — a toe, foot, or leg — because of vascular failure.
BETHESDA, Md. (Nov. 15, 2012)-- Chronic wounds such as foot ulcers are a common problem for diabetics and are the cause of more than 80 percent of the lower leg amputations in these patients.
The problem with that: Smokers with diabetes face higher risk for heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, vision problems, and nerve damage and reduced blood flow to the legs and feet that can lead to slow - healing sores, infections and even amputation.
Chronic wounds such as foot ulcers are a common problem for patients with diabetes and are the cause of more than 80 percent of leg amputations in this population.
In the case of orthopedic surgeon Dr. Fettke, his offence against the Australian medical establishment was to teach his patients how to use the low carb high fat (LCHF) diet to reverse their type 2 diabetes and avoid the amputation of their feet and legs.
This surgery required amputation of a significant portion of his left rear leg (all the way past the hock) and the toes of the feet on his right rear leg.
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The body parts that are most commonly subject to amputation injuries are toes, fingers and hands, feet, legs and arms.
These cases pertain to a broad spectrum of injuries, including brain damage and head injuries, paraplegia and quadriplegia, amputation of an arm or leg, injuries to hands and feet, injuries to the back and neck, injuries to vision (eye) or hearing, burns, broken bones, sprains and strains.
It was the car crash that caused you to suffer an amputation and you must now live the rest of your life without your arm, hand, finger, leg, foot or toe.