Diabetes joints are a condition that affects individuals with diabetes who develop profuse musculoskeletal changes in their muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons, and joints. These vast changes can cause impairment and affect an individual’s hands, feet, arms, legs, wrists, shoulders, knees, and spine. As a result, the individual can experience pain, stiffness, throbbing tingling, or numbness in any of these extremities.

About 75% of people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus will encounter some form of diabetes joints and related conditions due to the nerve damage, or neuropathy that is associated with having prolonged episodes of high blood glucose levels. When the diabetic’s insulin function is deficient or impaired, the body is unable to transfer sugar out of the bloodstream and into muscles, tissue, and other cells for use as fuel. The excess sugar remains in the blood where it can wreak havoc on blood vessels and all of …