Chronic complications arising from diabetes often lead to the formation of foot ulcers (open wounds on the foot) that increase a diabetes patient's risk of amputation. In fact, diabetes is the leading cause of non-trauma related amputation in the industrialized world. Factors that increase a diabetes patient's risk for amputation include:
?The presence of neuropathy. Neuropathy results in decreased neural sensation in the foot designed to protect the foot and help identify foot injuries early.
?Dry or cracked skin. Dry or cracked skin is usually caused by decreased sweating among patients who test positive for neuropathy. It increases the likelihood of infection.
?Improper care of the feet. Failure to wash and inspect the feet on a daily basis, or failure to dry the feet thoroughly after washing, promotes the formation of infection and reduces the likelihood of identifying an infection early on.
?Reduced mobility. If a diabetes patient is unable to lead an active lifestyle because of limited joint mobility, foot injury, obesity or any other condition, then he is at a higher risk for serious foot ulceration and amputation. An active lifestyle promotes proper circulation, which helps to fight against infection.
?Impaired vision. Even minor scrapes, blisters, corns and calluses can lead to foot ulceration and serious infection. These minor foot injuries can be difficult to detect, especially if a diabetes patient suffers from impaired vision. Family members or a doctor may need to assist the diabetes patient with daily foot inspections.
?Poor Circulation. Proper circulation enables the body to deliver nutrients and infection-fighting agents to all parts of the body whenever they are needed. The extremities of the body (in this case, the lower leg and foot) are the first to suffer when circulation stops functioning properly. Without this proper flow, infections are much more likely to develop in the foot.
?Poor glucose control. In order to ensure the health of his feet, a diabetes patient must first take care of his blood-glucose levels. Failure to do this limits the body's ability to heal foot ulcers and other wounds.
?History of foot ulcers. Foot ulcers have a tendency to reform in the same area, so if a diabetes patient has battled foot ulcers before, he needs to be even more vigilant against foot injuries in the future.
?Improper Footwear. Shoes that provide the proper orthopedic support are absolutely essentially for people suffering from diabetes. Shoes must not exert stress or pressure on the foot that could lead to the formation of blisters, calluses, corns, bunions, hammertoe, claw toe or any other condition that makes the foot more vulnerable to foot ulcer formation. Some diabetes patients do well with properly fitting athletic shoes. Others find that they need to invest in orthotics or customized orthopedic shoes.
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NLP has taken the therapy world by storm and quite rightly so. It creates rapid lasting change and you don't need a PHD to learn the simple skills. There are many, many trainers and training company's pumping out Practitioner by the hundreds and it would be fair to say that there are varying degrees of competency amongst these. I certainly have been amongst those who have argued in the past that some training school are responsible for poor quality NLP training, thus sending out inexperienced practitioners into the world, free to practice in the therapeutic world of the venerable and insecure.
The challenge with NLP in my opinion, is not finding somewhere to learn it, or someone to teach it, but, actually being good at it. For me, there are two factors that can influence the ability of each individual practitioner.
1) Charisma
Even the most intense, most specialised NLP training course has yet to find a way of teaching this natural elegance to it's delegates. I'm talking about the elegance that would just ease out of someone like Milton Erickson in an artfully conversational way creating major changes to the listeners? unconscious mind. Is this a skill that can be learned? If so, how is it taught? Are there people that can never really learn this and are these people practising NLP? Yes of course they are. They are the people who attend the courses to become therapists, yet what they really need is to see a therapist. I'll never forget, when we first set up People Building and were emailing therapists from all areas to let them know we were on the map. One lady emailed back saying that she was already an NLP Practitioner and had been personally trained by Dr. Richard Bandler and therefore didn't need to be aware of our services. I had to bind my hands together to prevent the temptation of emailing back ?That doesn't mean you're any good though, does it??
2) The Law of Requisite Variety (the person with the most flexibility of behaviour has the greatest influence over others.)
I remember once when I attended an EFT seminar and met a very interesting bunch of therapists called Guided Self Healers. I don't know anything about Guided Self Healing, so far be it from me to pass judgement on what they do, but I can tell you that they all seemed to be a bunch of nutters. I sat with them whilst they chatted enthusiastically about what number I was. They were sure I was a 9. I don't know what being a 9 means, but I also know I am a Pisces (which this week means I'm going to meet a stranger, according to my horoscopes- how difficult can that be?!) I'm also a Goat (Chinese astrology) right handed, visual (mainly) and blonde (naturally dumb).
The thing with NLP is it's great when you use it with a degree of fluidity. Yes, strategies can work, but a complex strategy may be run unconsciously. If you want to elicit an unconscious strategy from someone, they will become conscious about what they are doing, what happens to the strategy then? Yes, anchors can work, but if the client thinks it's all a load of poppycock, are they going to experience the state when he anchor is tested? Yes, I'm mainly visual, but probably not when I have my singing lessons. It's great that this stuff works, but being a true NLPer is about accepting that sometimes you get a different result to the one you were expecting, and to expect that anything else could happen instead. Lets stop putting people in boxes and expecting the norm and instead accept that actually anyone can be whatever they choose to do or be. Only then, can we practice as therapists who truly access all of our own internal resources in order to facilitate changes within the clients that we are working with.
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