t in a relaxed position and help stop the muscles in your calves from contracting and tensing.
- Keep your sheets and blankets loose.
- Kangapoda’s patented ergonomic canopy has the looseness built in so the fabric gently drapes your feet rather than having the irritating pressure against your toes.
Neuropathy & Painful Feet Are Often Type 2 Diabetic Issues
People living with diabetes have elevated blood sugar (glucose) levels. Over time these elevated levels can damage the nerve fibers, frequently in the legs and feet. This nerve damage can cause a distinct type of pain—diabetic nerve pain or neuropathy—characterized by a burning, shooting, pins and needles pain.
Many people with Type 2 diabetes cannot tolerate the pressure of a flat top sheet.
With Kangapoda, your bed can be tucked in and your painful feet and toes can lie comfortably without pressure. It is awesome!
The Kangapoda Ergonomic Canopy is expansive enough where feet, ankles, and legs that are healing in casts or immobilization boots can lie comfortably underneath the covers.
The foot is an evolutionary marvel, capable of handling hundreds of tons of force — your weight in motion — every single day. The foot’s myriad parts, including the toes, heel, and ball, work in harmony to get you from one place to another. But the stress of carrying you around puts your feet at high risk of injury, more so than other parts of your body.
Injuries to Tibia and Fibula
Lower leg fractures include fractures of the tibia and fibula. The tibia is the larger of the two bones. It supports most of your weight and is an important part of both the knee joint and ankle joint. However, fractures of the tibia generally also involve fibula fracture, because the force is transmitted along the interosseous membrane to the fibula. Causes include direct forces such as those caused by falls and motor vehicle accidents and indirect or twisting / rotational forces such as a fall while skiing or running into another player during soccer.
Treatments can include nonsurgical approaches such as immobilization, as well as the very common intramedullary nailing, where a rod is inserted to keep things in position.
How long it takes to return to daily activities varies with different types of fractures. Some tibial shaft fractures heal within 4 months; yet many may take 6 months or longer to heal. Kangapoda can make this significant healing period so much more comfortable and civil by allowing you to lie underneath the covers on your back without having to completely tear out the covers.
Ankle injuries are defined by the kind of tissue—bone, ligament, or tendon—that’s damaged. The ankle is where three bones meet—the tibia and fibula of your lower leg with the talus of your foot. These bones are held together at the ankle joint by ligaments, which are strong elastic bands of connective tissue that keep the bones in place while allowing normal ankle motion. Tendons attach muscles to the bones to enable the ankle and foot move and keep the joints stable.
An ankle injury occurs when the ankle joint is twisted too far out of its normal position. Most ankle injuries occur either during sports activities or while walking on an uneven surface that forces the foot and ankle into an unnatural position.
An ankle fracture describes a break in one or more of the bones. An ankle sprain is the term that describes damage to ligaments when they are stretched beyond their normal range of motion. A ligament sprain can range from many microscopic tears in the fibers that comprise the ligament to a complete tear or rupture.
Fractures can be treated either surgically or non-surgically. The doctor may treat the break without surgery by immobilizing the ankle if only one bone is broken, and so long as the bones are not out of place and the ankle is stable. Typically, the doctor will do this by putting on a brace that works as a splint or by putting on a cast. If the ankle is unstable, the fracture will be treated surgically. Often, the ankle is made stable by using a metal plate and screws to hold the bones in place. Follow