Weak muscles can put diabetics at risk on stairs

By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) - When nerves in the legs and feet are damaged from diabetes, people often have trouble on stairs, but a new report suggests exercise might help lower their risk of falling. People with so-called diabetic peripheral neuropathy go up and down stairs more slowly and clumsily than healthy people because of weak muscles, sensory damage (loss of feeling) and poor coordination, say the authors of the report. Resistance exercises could help these individuals build up strength and avoid future falls, they wrote in the journal Diabetes Care. ...



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