Crippling Condition Associated With Diabetes Is Often Misdiagnosed and Misunderstood

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110901135024.htm

ScienceDaily (Sep. 2, 2011) — Robert Winkler says he limped around on his painful left foot for six months, suffering unnecessarily from a misdiagnosis by a physician who didn't know about the symptoms and treatments for Charcot foot, a form of localized osteoporosis linked to diabetes that causes the bones to soften and break, often resulting in amputation.

When his primary care physician finally agreed to Mr. Winkler's request for an x-ray, they discovered the metatarsal bones in Mr. Winkler's left foot were all broken -- a common symptom of this serious and potentially limb-threatening lower-extremity complication.

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