Twenty-eight guides, grouped by what you are trying to work out. Each one is written by a foot and ankle surgeon and cites what it is built on.
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Start with the foot as a whole
What diabetes does to feet
Nerves, arteries, skin, bone and immune response — five failures that combine. What each visible sign means and how urgent it is.
The diabetic foot exam
What a proper examination includes, what the 10-gram monofilament actually tests, and why a normal ankle-brachial index can mislead.
Diabetic feet pictures
Sixteen illustrated pictures, from dry heels and thick nails to ulcers, Charcot foot and gangrene, grouped by how soon each needs to be seen.
When something is already wrong
Charcot foot
Misdiagnosed in roughly two thirds of cases. The stages, the temperature test, months in a cast, and when it becomes surgery.
Charcot foot recovery
The cast, the CROW boot and the shoes afterwards, with the timeline each stage usually takes and when surgery is considered.
Diabetic foot ulcers
Why offloading is the treatment, the two grading systems and what each misses, and what a wound still open at six weeks is telling you.
Healing a diabetic wound faster
What actually speeds a wound up — offloading, blood supply, infection, glucose — and the home habits that slow it down.
Total contact cast
Why a cast you cannot take off heals plantar ulcers more often than a removable boot, who it suits, how long it stays on, and the risks.
Early-stage diabetic foot ulcers
What an ulcer looks like before it is obvious, the stages 0 to 5 in pictures, and what to do today at each one.
Diabetic foot infection
Diagnosed by looking, not by swabbing. Why fever is so often absent, and the bedside probe that changes the entire plan.
Gangrene in the diabetic foot
Dry, wet and gas — three different things moving at three different speeds, and why it so often does not hurt.
Toe amputation with diabetes
Why it is done, how long healing takes, walking afterward, the real survival figures, and what lowers the risk of another.
Toe color changes with diabetes
Red, purple, black, yellow or pale — what each color usually means on a diabetic foot, and how quickly each needs to be seen.
Poor circulation in the feet
Cold feet, sores that will not heal and calf pain when you walk. Why diabetes can hide PAD and fool the ankle test, which tests to ask for, and what helps.
Swollen feet and diabetes
Both feet points somewhere systemic. One foot, warm and red, is a different question and a much shorter clock.
Non-diabetic foot ulcers
Neuropathic, venous, arterial and pressure — four kinds with opposite treatments, and the one mistake that does real harm.
Diabetic leg ulcers
Most leg ulcers in diabetes are venous or arterial rather than neuropathic, and the two need opposite treatments.
Skin and nails
Dry and cracked feet
Dry skin in diabetes is a neuropathy sign. Why heels split, what urea does, and why a pumice stone is the wrong tool.
Blisters on a diabetic foot
Bullosis diabeticorum, friction blisters, and the blood-filled one that is already a wound. Why the roof stays on.
Rashes on diabetic feet
Fungal, dry skin, dermopathy or circulation — and the hot, one-sided rash that needs seeing today.
Itchy feet with diabetes
Dry skin, athlete’s foot, nerve itch or something else. How to tell them apart, what is safe to put on, and when itching needs a doctor.
Brown spots on feet
Diabetic dermopathy is harmless in itself. What it travels with is the reason to mention it.
Diabetic dermopathy and spots on the legs
Harmless shin spots, and the look-alikes worth telling apart: pinpoint red spots, ankle staining, necrobiosis lipoidica and cellulitis.
Diabetic toenails
Why a thick nail is a mechanical problem, not a cosmetic one, and when nail care should stop being a home job.
Black toenail with diabetes
Blood from pressure you did not feel, fungus, Pseudomonas or a pigment band, and the rare melanoma: how to tell them apart and how soon to be seen.
Can diabetics get pedicures?
When a careful salon pedicure is reasonable, when nail and callus care belongs with a podiatrist, the footbath risk, and when Medicare pays.
Footwear, products and prevention
Diabetic shoes and inserts
What therapeutic footwear actually does, Medicare’s benefit, and the certification rule that stops most claims.
Diabetic socks
What makes a sock diabetic, who actually needs them, and the mark on a sock that means call today.
Diabetic socks vs compression socks
One protects skin that cannot feel, the other squeezes fluid out of a swollen leg, and on a diabetic leg the squeeze waits for a circulation check.
Diabetic foot cream
Urea concentration is the whole decision. What to look for on a label, and the two ingredient families to keep off a numb foot.
Diabetic foot pain: safe home remedies
Which home remedies help burning, aching, cramping or cold feet, and which ones cause burns and wounds on a numb foot.
Diabetic foot care products
Six things do almost all the work. Three sold for diabetic feet should never touch one.
Care in Michigan
What an at-risk foot appointment involves, what to bring, and what we refer out.
For clinicians and coders
Diabetic foot ICD-10 codes
The E11.621 plus L97 pairing, the depth and laterality digits, the Charcot codes, and the five subcategory headers that are not billable. Checked against FY2026 and FY2027.
Diabetic neuropathy ICD-10 codes
E11.40 or E11.42, the with rule that links neuropathy to diabetes, and why G62.9 and G63 do not go with them.