If you have diabetes, you're at higher risk for many related health problems, including foot or leg amputation. That's when you have surgery to remove a limb or a digit like a toe or finger.

Most people with RA will have foot and ankle symptoms at some point ... Rarely, in very serious cases, complications could lead to amputation of toes or feet.

Revision amputations are follow-up operations done to improve how a limb functions. Dr. Justin Greisberg, orthopedic surgeon and chief of the Foot and Ankle Service at NewYork-Presbyterian ...

Patients who received foot and ankle care had an 11% lower likelihood of death. These patients had a 9% lower likelihood of major amputation compared with patients who did not. Adults with kidney ...

With a regular prosthetic, "your foot ... point of amputation, outside the muscles paired by the surgery, and is responsive to them. When the muscle normally involved in lifting the ankle ...

“I jerk my foot. It kind of stuck, and I pulled my ankle. I dislocated it,” said ... could lead to a serious infection or amputation,” explained Felder. “Skin grafts are a really old ...

It commonly affects the middle of the foot, the hindfoot joint, and the ankle and forefoot joints ... In some severe cases, amputation of the foot may be necessary. Charcot foot may be difficult ...

That patient, Andrew Quinn, is now suing The Encore At Boca Raton and its related parent companies after the allegedly poor care has left him permanently in a wheelchair, and without a foot.

Depending on how it goes, he might need another amputation ... Doctor Ken Hunt, a foot and ankle orthopedic specialist, told him they could try to do some treatments to get him through the ...

The new Colorado coach has undergone several surgeries to his left foot, including getting his ... Wohlauer said the circulation in Sanders’s ankle was just 66% of the blood pressure compared ...

This caused a cascade of chronic pain up her right leg, affecting her ankle ... videos about her elective amputation and how she navigates life with a prosthetic foot. “She kind of encouraged ...