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- Charcot Foot
- Mona Morstein
- Message 1 of 5 , May 4 11:12 AM
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- Any physical medicine folks ever treat Charcot foot and have success?
- If so, please let me know how you treated it!
- Thanks!
- Mona Morstein, ND, DHANP
- Tempe, AZ
- www.diamend.info
- Jan
- Message 2 of 5 , May 4 10:38 PM
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- Hi Mona,
- I have treated what I thought was Charcot Marie Tooth in a teen boy. He definitely had a profound foot drop that made him pull on his jeans to lift one foot. The whole family had the odd square toes presentation. Did acupuncture bi-weekly for several weeks. Got general nutrients in him and likely some specific things. I'll have to look at the chart. In any case he improved greatly and I'd see him in the school neighborhood with his friends happy and normally mobile. His parents were very grateful for the cure. One of those times it makes what we do all worthwhile.
- Jan Highfield ND
- Scottsdale, AZ
- Mona Morstein
- Message 3 of 5 , May 5 6:23 AM
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- Hello, Jan,
- Well, Charcot foot is associated with diabetic neuropathy, trauma, and inflammation, causing the "rocker-bottom" foot, not foot drop. Sounds like you did a great job with that boy but it doesn’t really sound like the Charcot foot.
- Mona Morstein, ND, DHANP
- Tempe, AZ
- Jan
- Message 4 of 5 , May 6 2:18 PM
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- Hi Mona,
- Thanks for the elaboration. Charcot was a noted neurologist, I assume, as his name is on both these pathologies!
- Cheers,
- Jan Highfield ND
- Scottsdale, AZ
- Eric Blake
- Message 5 of 5 , May 7 12:01 PM
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- Hi Mona
- I have treated diabetic patients that have charcot foot for associated pathologies - 2 with non healing ulcers, 1 with gangrene on the toe, and one who had osteomyelitis (I could visualize the metatarsals through the large gaping whole on the bottom of the foot).
- The ulcers and gangrene we healed up, the advanced osteomyelitis case showed some initial improvement but was beyond conservative care and had to have an amputation.
- We used a combination of PSWD, high frequency, LVAC and topical ichthammol and a combination of DMSO,Echinacea, Hydrastis, and Argentyn.
- I presented a poster on diabetes with those cases and others at the Paris Naturopathic Congress last year- Naturopathic Physiotherapy in the treatment of diabetes
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