Protect feet, mobility, and confidence
through better diabetes education.
Diabetes-related foot problems can become serious when warning signs are missed. Sr. Jodi helps patients understand daily foot care, risk factors, early warning signs, and when to involve the right healthcare professional.
Practical education for daily checks, footwear awareness, warning signs, and referral readiness.
The goal is early recognition, calmer action, and better communication with the healthcare team.
Small changes in the feet can become big problems if they are ignored.
Diabetes can affect sensation, circulation, healing, skin integrity, and infection risk. Foot education helps patients notice changes early, practise daily prevention habits, and understand when medical review is needed.
Know your personal risk
Understand why numbness, altered sensation, circulation concerns, previous wounds, footwear pressure, or surgery plans may increase risk.
Build daily habits
Learn simple routines for checking the feet, noticing changes, choosing safer footwear, and avoiding preventable problems.
Escalate early
Know which signs should not wait and when to contact a doctor, podiatrist, wound specialist, or emergency service.
This session is especially useful for patients with known or possible foot risk.
It is also useful before surgery, after a new diagnosis, after a foot concern, or when a doctor wants a patient to become more aware of prevention.
Altered sensation
Numbness, tingling, burning, reduced feeling, or uncertainty about whether the feet are changing.
Previous wound risk
Patients with a previous foot wound, slow healing, pressure areas, or recurring skin problems.
Footwear pressure
Shoes that rub, tight footwear, pressure marks, calluses, deformity, or difficulty checking the feet.
Surgery preparation
Patients preparing for orthopaedic review or surgery where diabetes control, healing, and foot risk matter.
Glucose instability
Patients whose glucose patterns may affect healing risk, infection risk, energy, or recovery.
Doctor referral
Patients referred by GPs, endocrinologists, podiatrists, wound-care teams, or orthopaedic surgeons.
Patients need to know what to look for before something becomes urgent.
Daily checks, pressure awareness, and early action can reduce avoidable risk.
Many foot problems are not noticed early because they do not always hurt.
Patients may not feel pain, may not know which changes matter, or may assume a small problem will settle. Education helps patients build a simple daily routine and know when to act.
- Daily foot inspection education
- Skin, nail, footwear, and pressure awareness
- Understanding altered sensation and circulation concerns
- Knowing when to contact the doctor urgently
- Preparing for podiatry, wound-care, or orthopaedic review
A simple daily foot-check habit can make a major difference.
The education goal is not to frighten patients. It is to give them a calm, practical routine that helps them notice changes early.
Check the top, bottom, sides, heels, and between the toes.
Notice temperature, swelling, soreness, numbness, or sensation changes.
Use appropriate footwear and avoid avoidable rubbing or pressure.
Take note of changes and when they started.
Contact the right healthcare professional early when there are warning signs.
What should I do if I notice a foot change?
This tool is for education only. It does not diagnose or replace medical advice.
Choose the closest situation.
What a foot-care education session covers.
Sessions are practical and can be aligned with a referral from a doctor, podiatrist, endocrinologist, or orthopaedic surgeon.
Foot-care education supports specialist care. It does not replace it.
Prevention and early action
- Daily foot-check routines
- Warning sign awareness
- Footwear and pressure education
- Preparation for medical or podiatry review
- Understanding how diabetes affects healing risk
Clinical assessment and treatment
- Diagnosis of foot wounds or infections
- Wound care treatment
- Podiatry assessment
- Vascular assessment
- Orthopaedic or surgical management
- Emergency medical care
Helpful tools for prevention and appointment preparation.
These can be created as downloadable PDFs later. They make the website more useful for patients and more impressive to referring clinicians.
Warning signs sheet
A clear guide explaining which changes need prompt medical attention.
Download PDF →Podiatry appointment prep
Questions and information to prepare before seeing a podiatrist or foot-care specialist.
Download PDF →Help patients protect their feet before problems become serious.
Book a foot-care and complication prevention education session with Sr. Jodi, or refer a patient who needs structured prevention support.