April Is Foot Health Awareness Month

Format: Brochure
Institute: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

April is Foot Health Awareness Month, and the National Diabetes Education Program of NIDDK is helping promote foot care by featuring two new online publications.

Take Care of Your Feet for a Lifetime provides good advice for people with diabetes to keep their feet healthy and avoid serious foot problems. Feet Can Last for a Lifetime is geared toward health care professionals and features tools for diabetes foot exams, Medicare information, and reference and resource materials.

Next Steps
To view Take Care of Your Feet for a Lifetime in PDF form, visit http://ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/Feet_broch_Eng.pdf. The brochure is available in Spanish at http://ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/Spanish_Foot_Bro_Pgs.pdf.

To download Feet Can Last for a Lifetime, visit http://ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/Feet_HCGuide.pdf.