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Save Your Soles Mission And Vision

Save Your Soles is a grassroots campaign focused on eliminating lower extremity amputations for those suffering from diabetes.
Our patient care inspired independent research that led us to identify the community with the highest risk: black males.
We believe that through patient care, community outreach, and raised awareness, we can reduce amputations in the greater Philadelphia area.
We're here to help you understand the risk-factors for amputation and guide you if you're concerned about your leg circulation.

Save Your Soles Mission And Vision

Save Your Soles is a grassroots campaign focused on eliminating lower extremity amputations for those suffering from diabetes.
Our patient care inspired independent research that led us to identify the community with the highest risk: black males.
We believe that through patient care, community outreach, and raised awareness, we can reduce amputations in the greater Philadelphia area.
We're here to help you understand the risk-factors for amputation and guide you if you're concerned about your leg circulation.

Reduce Your Risk

Prevention Tools

There is a lot you can do to reduce your risk for amputation. Use these tools below to help you understand how diabetes affects the body, and your next steps to caring for your feet. 

What is an early sign of poor circulation?

A. Shiny skin or toes
B. Shiny skin of feet and legs
C. Tingling in your toes and feet

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Shiny skin on feet and legs


Other early signs are loss of hair on your feet or toes, and erectile dysfunction.

Which group in the Philadelphia area receive the most amputations?

A. Black men ages 40 – 60
B. White men over age 60
C. Black women ages 40 – 60

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Black Men ages 40 – 60

Black men are nearly 3x as likely to experience a lower extremity amputation than any other group.

How is diabetes diagnosed?

A. CAT Scan
B. Clinical assessment/doctor’s judgement
C. Blood Test

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Blood Test (to measure glucose)

While sharing any changes in your eating/drinking habits with your doctor is critical, your primary care doctor will need to review blood test results prior to diagnosing diabetes.

What is an early sign of poor circulation?

A. Shiny skin or toes
B. Shiny skin of feet and legs
C. Tingling in your toes and feet

FLIP FOR ANSWER →

Shiny skin on feet and legs


Other early signs are loss of hair on your feet or toes, and erectile dysfunction.

Which group in the Philadelphia area receive the most amputations?

A. Black men ages 40 – 60
B. White men over age 60
C. Black women ages 40 – 60

FLIP FOR ANSWER →

Black Men ages 40 – 60

Black men are nearly 3x as likely to experience a lower extremity amputation than any other group.

How is diabetes diagnosed?

A. CAT Scan
B. Clinical assessment/doctor’s judgement
C. Blood Test

FLIP FOR ANSWER →

Blood Test (to measure glucose)

While sharing any changes in your eating/drinking habits with your doctor is critical, your primary care doctor will need to review blood test results prior to diagnosing diabetes.

Why Podiatry?

Benefits of Foot Care

Your feet keep you moving – a key to health and well-being. Seeing a podiatrist can assist in providing an active lifestyle. Motion is the lotion of life!

Early Recognition

A podiatrist checks the strength of the pulse and skin tone on a patient’s foot – two key indications of good circulation.

Trust & Support

There has been a podiatrist in this office since 1962 and we are dedicated to reducing amputations in the Delaware Valley.

Foot Exams

Diabetics often lose feeling in their feet, so it’s important to have your feet examined to monitor and measure foot sensation.

Lifestyle Recommendations

Podiatrists offer palliative care, orthotics, shoe/sneaker evaluation, and surgery to keep patients moving and healthy.

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Save Your Soles Podiatry

Providing general podiatric foot care with a special focus on diabetic foot care, limb salvage, and foot surgery in Philadelphia.

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Why Do Diabetics Sometimes Get Amputations?

What Diabetes Does to the Body Many patients with uncontrolled diabetes develop peripheral artery disease (PAD), which basically means that blood does not effectively flow