02/06/2024 Diabetes & Foot Ulcers Season 2024 Episode 3802 | 28m 3sVideo has Closed Captions| CC Guest: Michelle Diss (Nurse Practitioner). Guest: Michelle Diss (Nurse Practitioner).

The VA is a pioneer when it comes to detecting and treating diabetic foot ulcers and their complications. But it, and the NIH, need to invest more in research on this quiet killer.

Diabetic foot ulcers usually form from a combination of poor circulation, neuropathy, deformities of the foot, irritation of the skin, such as pressure or friction, and trauma or injury to the foot.

Because diabetics often lack sensation in their feet, they may not shift foot pressure as needed, potentially leading to serious skin ulcers. A set of experimental insoles were created that ...

BERLIN — Wearing pressure-sensing smart insoles (, Orpyx Medical Technologies) reduced diabetic foot ulcer recurrence by up to 86% in compliant patients in a randomized single-blinded trial in ...

Development of Cyclic Pressure Offloading Insole for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Prevention. The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, 2024; DOI: 10.1177/15347346241234825 ...

The University of Leeds is at the forefront of research into preventing and treating diabetic foot ulcers as well as skin wounds and pressure sores more generally, a problem that affects people ...

Researchers have developed a new growth factor delivery system that heals wounds such as pressure sores and diabetic foot ulcers faster than previous treatments. The scientists found that ...

To prevent diabetic foot ulcers, research scientists at The University of Texas at Arlington have developed footwear technology that relieves pressure on areas of the feet that experience high ...

Nearly 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes each year and every 1.2 seconds someone around the world gets a diabetic foot ulcer. Some foot ulcers even lead to toe or limb amputations.

In the age- and sex-adjusted baseline model, the OR for risk for hospital-acquired foot ulcers in patients with diabetes vs. those without diabetes was 2.24 (95% CI, 1.87-2.62).

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Diabetes can lead to ulcers that patients don’t even feel or notice until the sight of blood. And because ulcers can’t heal on their own, 14 to 24 percent of diabetics in the ...