Dr Mushtaqur Rahman, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist explains what an 'Acute Charcot Foot' is. He explains that small fractures and inflammation can happen quickly resulting in a hot swollen foot. He explains that even a little pain may suggest a lot of damage going on inside. He says that you should seek urgent medical attention as there are things that can get done to allow the foot to heal by reducing the amount of load going through it.
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What can happen is, what I've been describing is Charcot that's already burnt out, what can happen is if you have a swollen, red, painful foot, that is what's called an acute Charcot, that's the beginning of that process where there is possibly some small fractures or you've moved, that's set off an inflammatory process. Now, if you are someone who has nerve damage, normally you don't feel pain. So if you're actually feeling pain, that is a very serious symptom, because for the rest of us, we would be in absolute agony, but you're just feeling pain. So that is the point where you must seek help quickly, because we can do things for you, such as taking weight off the foot by using what's called an air cast boots. Those are like those, those boots you see footballers wear when they have injuries to their ankles or to their metatarsals. Or we can use total contact casts, which are like plaster casts that we use for people with broken legs, but it's the same principle. You just allow the bones time to heal by not putting extra pressure through them. you
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