Diabetic Feet and Martial Arts Can We Wear Socks?
24th September 2009,18:48 #i
karate and diabetes
Hullo all, forgive me if this has been covered before, I just went through a few pages and establish nearly a dozen threads of interest and read them for a few hours, and I have an essay to go on with for college lol.Anyways, I recently tried karate, and enjoyed it very much, and so will be going back. My business organisation though is about bare feet. I've recently been studying various Chinese martial arts, covered wing chun, tai chi, and feng shou, all of them are done without uniforms and with shoes on, which suits me downward to the ground. But in karate it's a barefoot thing. This concerns me a fleck because I'm diabetic, and in some classes from years ago when I did aikijutsu and taekwondo barefoot, occasionally my feet would be black with dust and crud and whatnot from the flooring we'd exist preparation on, which in one case on my feet would dry and cause dry out peel and more.
I'thou still young, 23, but my diabetes isn't brilliantly controlled (function of why I desire to get back into martial arts for regular exercise), so I'm worried about how being barefoot on difficult common cold floor volition affect my anxiety.
Does anyone have feel as a instructor who had diabetic students what you lot consider acceptable (such every bit wearing socks, though that might cause slipping, or kung fu slippers or something), or every bit diabetics who accept had to work something out to protect their anxiety? It feels kinda effeminate affair to exercise after karate but I'm thinking of moisturising my anxiety when I get in or something to inspect for cracked skin and whatnot. Will ask the sensei about it when I go next, just in the mean time..any tips or advice will be taken on board.
Thank you
Dan Gould
Not yet rated (Rather comfortable in the gi now, just waiting to expect good in information technology)
24th September 2009,xix:19 #two
Addressing your medical condition, and including keeping your feet well cared for, is not effeminate in any mode or form.What I would practise is ask if wearing something like tabi or Vibrams footwear- http://www.vibramfivefingers.com - is acceptable due to your diabetes. If they say "no", go to another dojo. Wearing protective footwear to protect your feet due to diabetes is a reasonable matter, and any instructor worth a darn should non accept a problem with this.
Budo is supposed to support your wellness and exist part of your life. If it impacts it with a negative - makes you do things that could permamently bear on your health for no proficient reason- than it's not worth doing. Yeah, adventure of injury in hard training is part of budo, only a uncomplicated protective mensurate similar you are talking about is smart.
24th September 2009,nineteen:51 #3
Thanks for the link, they await smashing, volition look into them. The teacher seems a very reasonable man, and at present I recall of it I bought those slipper socks with the lite grips on the soles years agone when I was doing aikido for exactly that reason (too I was prone to cramping considering my feet got cold, though that's not a problem these days.)They say communication is what y'all ask for when you already know the reply lol. Was worth asking to get that link though, thanks again.
Dan
Dan Gould
Not yet rated (Rather comfy in the gi now, but waiting to wait good in it)
24th September 2009,21:32 #iv
If you are going to clothing something it needs to be absolutely supportive, you lot don't want information technology giving when it'due south your supporting human foot in a kick for case.I've worn footwear before when it was medically required, it but makes sense.
24th September 2009,22:02 #5
Dainty Job Neil!
Greetings,One of the reasons I 'retired' from didactics and doing MA's is the fact that I am a latent type II diabetic and constitute that doing it in my bare feet combined with neuropeathy in one foot was a bit too much for me. At that place were also other reasons for 'retiring', only the ane stated above was a very strong supporting reason.
Expert reply, Neil. If I was younger and looking to keep in the MA'southward your proposition would be my solution.
Regards,
Tom
Tom Militello
"Y'all can't hide on the mats." Terry Dobson sensei.
25th September 2009,07:42 #six
I'm diabetic, and am a old karateka and now do ken and jo arts. You should discuss this with a diabetologist or other medical practitioner, of course, and much will depend on your current state of health, simply for what it'south worth:
Originally Posted by Shindai
...My concern though is about bare feet. ...This concerns me a bit because I'm diabetic, and in some classes from years agone when I did aikijutsu and taekwondo barefoot, occasionally my anxiety would be black with dust and crud and whatnot from the floor nosotros'd exist training on, which once on my anxiety would dry and cause dry peel and more than.
I take balmy neuropathy in 1 foot (mainly numbness, but occasionally "pins and needles" pain), and the typical wearisome healing of foot and leg wounds. I was worried about practicing barefoot when returning later a long layoff. I got blisters at commencement, and had to be very diligent in treating them with antibiotic cream and such, but now my anxiety are toughend upwards, and I remember it'southward actually a benefit because I will now be less likely to develop blisters in the futurity.
I wash my feet later on practice, before putting my socks and shoes back on, and I apply a foot lotion every night before retiring. http://www.kerasal.com/cream.shtml
Talk this over with your doctor, and follow his or her communication, just you practice take several unlike possible options from which to cull. Since no 2 of us are alike, what works for me may not work for you and vice versa.
Further reading:
http://www.footphysicians.com/footan...guidelines.htm
Yours in Budo,
---Brian---
26th September 2009,00:45 #7
Dan ~I take been type ane for 19 years now. My control has been in and out. During that time frame, I have practiced several years of Shotokan and have recently taken up Aikido.
Aside from contacting your endo, I can tell you that do will assist y'all. My feet actually toughen up when in practise. I use lotion several times a day and go along an eye on callouses. I, or my wife, inspect my anxiety every night. I would go on an eye on the floors and make sure they are well swept. Now that I practice on mats, this is not as much of an event.
I practice non have neuropathy in my feet, but do in my left quad (a bit rarer). If you always get symptoms, get to a doc, with or without insurance.
Other than that, train smart. You and your Sensei will learn to arrange to anything. If you lot always need more of a chat, post or pm. Take care.
~John Bevard~
27th September 2009,14:18 #8
footwear
I allow many of my students to wearable footwear (kung fu shoes, tabi or martial arts footwear like those available through Century or Adidas) for a variety of reasons - diabetes, raynauds, etc.I also wear them myself when I am teaching in community centres or schoolhouse gymnasiums - the floors are never as clean equally one would like and I'd rather non pick upwards who knows what on my feet....
Jason G. Bilodeau
4th October 2009,03:18 #ix
Cheers for your replies anybody, apologies for my tedious response, it's been such a long fourth dimension since I came hither before I started the thread I forgot to cheque dorsum.As information technology happens I raised the signal with my sensei and he's also diabetic and before I'd finished asking if it's ok to wear something he said I could vesture any I wanted (within reason plainly) if I needed to. I tried the slipper socks and was disappointed with their grip, and felt like a pillock wearing socks in a room full of blank feet, simply then I was the only one in black kung fu pants and black t shirt in a room full of well-baked white gi, so hey ho
I'll keep an heart out for those vibram five finger thingerbobs, seen them earlier and would beloved to own some but for now tin can't afford it.
The ironic matter is before I was diagnosed with diabetes I spent ages walking around barefoot to toughen up my feet, and continued for a couple of years afterwards my diagnosis, but was then told to take tough peel on my anxiety was unsafe for a diabetic, and so I stopped walking barefoot and my feet have since got softer. Do you think it would exist worth me "training" my feet once more?
Cheers all again, I'm so unsure about this stuff. I've been diabetic long enough to take forgotten the basics, I'm embarassed to say, I'm sure the sites you gave me volition be useful Brian
Incidentally, shotokan rocks
Oss
Dan
Dan Gould
Non yet rated (Rather comfy in the gi now, just waiting to wait good in information technology)
4th October 2009,09:29 #ten
Unfortunately, there are no "one size fits all" answers to the complex problems of diabetics. I think getting "hard spots" on the anxiety would be a problem (it might be a sign of compromised circulation), but overall tougher skin would be a do good. Almost doctors might not make the distinction between the two, because in the modernistic world then few have tough anxiety just many have corns, calluses, bunions, etc.
...The ironic thing is before I was diagnosed with diabetes I spent ages walking around barefoot to toughen upwardly my feet, and continued for a couple of years later my diagnosis, merely was then told to have tough skin on my feet was unsafe for a diabetic... Do you call up it would exist worth me "training" my feet again?
Talk this over with your doctor, practice some reading, pay attending to your own feet, and live accordingly.
Yours in Budo,
---Brian---
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