The Importance of Looking After Your Feet When Living with Diabetes – A Community Member’s Experience
February 13, 2018,
Post by Tickers“I don’t like feet at the best of times! But I’m diabetic type 1 and so I have to spend a lot of time making sure my feet don’t get too dry. As a diabetic, you lose the ability to sweat through your feet. For me, that means I get very dry heels and a …Read More

How Having Diabetes Affects My Feet
February 8, 2018,
Post by Andy LavenderI am a diabetic and have neuropathy – all the nerve endings in my feet are dead. Technically, you could take my nails off with no anaesthetic without me feeling a thing. Recently I had an odd feeling on the base of my foot, like there was a stone in my shoe. I inspected my …Read More

Let’s Change the Way We Think About Feet – Join Our Community Today!
February 2, 2018,
Post by Dr AndersThe Feel Your Feet Community WHAT is a community? How do we define it, and what it brings to us? Feel Your Feet stands as an exemplar of what a community should be, and what it can achieve. A supportive online forum where members can openly discuss the impact foot problems have had on their …Read More

Why I believe the role of podiatrists is so vital
January 31, 2018,
Post by Dr AndersThe College of Podiatry recently released a landmark report – Podiatry: Driving Value, Improving Outcomes. In simple, but devastatingly honest terms, it revealed the vital role of podiatry in keeping our population active, quite literally saving life and limb, and how, if podiatry is not properly embedded into frontline services, we risk a care catastrophe. …Read More

One of our Community Members First Hand Experience of Gout
January 29, 2018,
Post by Dr AndersI first encountered Judith when I had something in the pad of my right foot. Originally I’d been given antibiotics and had to go to hospital for two nights, but when I went to see Judith she found glass splinters in the base of the foot which she expertly removed. I then had a red …Read More

Let’s Talk About Gout
January 26, 2018,
Post by Dr AndersGOUT – for many it throws up an unseemly image of Henry VIII gorging on rich foodstuffs before retiring to his chamber, putting his foot up, and roaring in pain. Henry, however, is far from a realistic portrait of the average gout-stricken person. In fact, forget the stereotype, there is no average sufferer of gout. …Read More

So why am I posting a photograph from 1996?
January 24, 2018,
Post by Dr AndersYou’ll notice from the date that this picture was taken almost 22 years ago. Back then I was only a couple of years out of University and had recently started my dream job; working in a hospital setting as a specialist diabetes podiatrist. The person in the photograph was one of the patients that I …Read More

Foot Patients Should Think Twice Before Attending A&E
January 9, 2018,
Post by Dr AndersWith A&E departments in crisis across the country, leading podiatrist Dr Judith Anders says those with foot issues could save themselves and the NHS valuable time by accessing an immediate consultation with a dedicated foot expert. “A&E is for acute serious emergencies,” says Judith. “Why wait for hours on end when what you really need is …Read More

Small, Bony, Clicky (I have clicking ankles)
December 7, 2017,
Post by Victoria BrownI have athletes foot in between my 4th toe and 5th toe. I also have clicking ankles – they click when I walk. It started on one side about 7 years ago. Now both ankles click. It hurts sometimes, particularly when it’s cold. I would describe the pain as an ache in my ankle bones. …Read More