Massage therapist looking to work with Diabetcs

Are there any doctors here that would be willing to trade consulting services with a new massage therapist looking to work with diabetics. I am a diabetic who has had my diabetes under control through diet and exercise for the last year. I am really passionate about diabetes and obesity in general. My ultimate goal is to become a dietician and licensed clinical social worker specializing in obese clients with eating disorders. Until then i want to focus my massage work on these clients and their primary health care providers. I am looking for someone to give me advice on how to establish professional relationships with doctors who specialize in this area. I want the work i do to pay for school to better prepare me for the work i will be doing after school.

You can still have swelling, pain, redness without an infection. It's called inflammation. There is usually always inflammation with infection (unless your are, have a non-functioning immune system, or have a latent or sublcinical infection). However, not all inflammation is due to infection. If you twist your ankle and it swells up-inflammation. Pull a muscle in your groin-inflammation. Inflammation is the body's response to injury whether that be from a virus, bacterium, parasite or due to a dog bite, sports injury, or stress.

Most likely I have an infection, however, the lymph nodes did a good job of sequestering it so I may not have the typical systemic signs of infection (like fever and feeling like crap in general). This is likely why the antibiotics won't work without the incision and drainage-they won;t be able to effectively penetrate the area.

Anyway, it's good that I went to the doctor. They had a patient last week who had something similar. He had a cyst, cyst got larger, "invaded" the parotid gland, parotid became enlarged, and the patient finally decided to come in to the ED. It looked like he had a baseball protruding from his neck. This guy, however, developed sepsis because he had let it go too far (and his body didn't or could no longer sequester the infection). He actually had several incision and drainages over a week.