Clinical Observations and Patient SymptomsPeripheral Vascular Conditionsdiabetesneuropathyperipheral arterial diseaseabsence of sensationreduction in sensationrest painfoot
What is 'Rest Pain'?
Mr Joseph Shalhoub, Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon explains what healthcare professionals mean when they use the term 'Rest Pain' with Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD or narrowing of the arteries). He explains it happens due an inadequate supply of blood to the feet.
He goes on to explain that people with Diabetes may not experience this as the nerves have been damaged.
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So, rest pain is a medical term that we use in patients with peripheral arterial disease. What this means is that your peripheral arterial disease has advanced to a certain stage where the blood supply to your extremities, your foot, is not maintained even when you're resting. So usually when you exert yourself, your body demands extra blood and nutrients. If someone has rest pain, then even at rest, without any exertion, that demand for blood and nutrients is not being met. Patients with diabetes often don't get rest pain, and the reason for this is that they have condition called neuropathy. Neuropathy is when the diabetes affects the nerves to the foot and patients with diabetes often have a difficulty with feeling problems with their foot or they have an absence of sensation or at least a reduction in the sensation which they feel in their foot and so because of this patients with diabetes often don't get rest pain. Rest pain is a feature of of patients with peripheral arterial disease, particularly those that don't have diabetes.
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