We developed and validated a survey of foot self-care education and behaviors in 772 diabetic patients with high-risk feet at eight Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers. Principal components analysis identified six subscales with satisfactory internal consistency: basic foot-care education, extended foot-care education, basic professional foot care, extended professional foot care, ba...

BACKGROUND Foot complications due to diabetes impose a major economic burden to society and loss of health-related quality of life for the patients. Early diagnosis and intensified preventive measures have proved useful to limit the incidence of foot ulcers and lower limb amputations in diabetes, and the development of new tools for early diagnosis has therefore become an attractive option. Thi...

BACKGROUND Various foot models are used in the analysis of foot motion during gait and selection of the appropriate model can be difficult. The clinical utility of a model is dependent on the repeatability of the data as well as an understanding of the expected error in the process of data collection. Kinematic assessment of the paediatric foot is challenging and little is reported about multi-...

a study in egypt during june 2012-august 2013 revealed that there were a disastrous out break of foot and mouth disease where sat2 strain have been identified as the main reason for its  occurrence. trained and untrained persons routinely perform uncontrolled treatments leading to sever economic losses. the present paper represents an intervention that was developed to empower the community to ...

the distally based sural fasciocutaneous flap has become a main part of the reconstruction of the lower leg, heel and foot. however, perfusion problems and venous congestion have been reported. over the past decade, several flap modifications have been reported to improve flap viability and to solve a myriad of reconstructive needs. the purpose of this paper is to describe our experience in har...

In order to determine if the use of antipronation taping could be used to direct foot orthoses prescription, seven high school athletes with lower extremity or foot pain caused by overuse stress were taped for 3 days during practice sessions. A visual pain scale and the Foot and Ankle Ability Measure sports subscale were used to monitor pain and function improvement caused by taping. If the tap...

In the year 2005, most of the estimated 150 million people worldwide afflicted by diabetes mellitus lived in developing countries.1 Diabetic foot ulcers will complicate the disease in more than 15% of these people during their lifetimes.2,3 In prospective cohort studies conducted among those with diabetes, history of a foot ulcer increased the risk of subsequent amputation by twoto over three-f...

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common metabolic diseases. More than 154 million people are estimated to have diabetes worldwide. The prevalence of diabetes among veterans has increased to 17%, more than double the prevalence in the general population. Diabetic foot ulcers are a frequent late complication in diabetic patients and the most prevalent lesion of the diabetic foot. Foot examina...