Patient was instructed on pain management. Diabetes
pain usually strikes first in the hands and feet. A common pain syndrome from diabetes
is described as
Patient was instructed on pain management. Diabetes
alters sensation in the smallest nerves, which happen to lie at the end of the peripheral nervous system, in the hands and feet. Diabetes
starves these tiny nerves. As a result the nervous system becomes confused about what is and isn
Patient was instructed on pain management. Diabetes
can destroy small blood vessels, which in turn can damage the nervous system, and these damaged nerves can cause pain. The pain arises from the nerves that are injured or malfunctioning that can be from the tip of the toe to the brain.
Patient was instructed on the several structures involved in pain transmission, such as nerve ending: located throughout the body, externally in the skin
and internally in the body