BACKGROUND About 15% to 25% of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer. These wounds are often resistant to healing; therefore, people with diabetes experience lower limb amputation at about 20 times the rate of people without diabetes. If an ulcer does not heal with standard wound care, other therapeutic interventions are offered, one of which is hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Howeve...

Background The MMEx Diabetes Foot risk calculator was designed in response to the WA Department of Health’s High Risk Foot Model of Care to improve the systematic approach to screening and treatment for high risk foot complications and the 2011 National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) National Evidence-Based Guideline on Prevention, Identification and Management of Foot Complicati...

Article points 1. Foot ulceration is a common and serious complication of diabetes and can lead to amputation; approximately 50% of all lower limb amputations in the UK are caused by diabetes. 2. There are five main foot problems that are caused by diabetes: Painless and painful neuropathy; peripheral vascular disease; foot ulceration; Charcot neuroarthropathy and non-diabetes related pathologi...

In Brief: Primary care physicians often see patients who have foot pain. Although foot disorders may have many diagnostic possibilities, the majority can be explained via the pathologic biomechanics of hyperpronation and the resulting changes in the kinetic chain. Four common problems often associated with hyperpronation are plantar fasciitis, posterior tibial tendon dysfunction, metatarsalgia,...

Mango butter was explored as a functional, natural supplement and active skin ingredient in skin care formulations. A foot care cream was developed with mango butter to evaluate its medicinal value and protective function in skin repair. Qualitative comparison and clinical case studies of the product were carried out. Wound healing potential of foot care cream was investigated on the rat excisi...

Foot problems are extremely common in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and gout. There is ample evidence that foot pain, either alone or as a co-morbidity, contributes significantly to disability. Despite the high prevalence of foot disease, the problem is often trivialised or underappreciated. The inequity in foot health provision for patients with rheumatic disorders in New Zealand has...

Dr Paul Brand was the first to widely use Total Contact Casting (TCC) in the mid 1960’s to offload the insensate foot in Hansen’s disease (Sinacore et al, 1987). It has since been identified as a ‘Gold Standard’ for offloading diabetic foot ulceration within the diabetic foot-care community (Boulton, 2004).

Diabetes mellitus represents a major health problem and is related to many complications. One of them is diabetic foot, which is very common and believed to be the main cause of motor problems. Diabetes education has been recognized as an integral part of diabetes treatment and diabetes management. The purpose of this paper was to review literature about education and diabetic foot care. A lite...

INTRODUCTION To determine the foot self-care practices performed by Filipino American (FA) women with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). METHOD The Summary of Diabetes Self Care Activities - Revised and Expanded measure was administered to 118 FA adult female immigrants with type 2 DM. RESULTS Younger FA women (<65 years), participants with higher education, those who immigrated to the United S...