Effectiveness of offloading interventions for people with diabetes‐related foot ulcers: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

PA Lazzarini, DG Armstrong, RT Crews… - Diabetes/metabolism …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Offloading treatment is crucial to heal diabetes‐related foot ulcers (DFU). This
systematic review aimed to assess the effectiveness of offloading interventions for people …

Guidelines on offloading foot ulcers in persons with diabetes (IWGDF 2023 update)

SA Bus, DG Armstrong, RT Crews… - Diabetes/metabolism …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Offloading mechanical tissue stress is arguably the most important of multiple
interventions needed to heal diabetes‐related foot ulcers. This is the 2023 International …

Oxygen-releasing composites: a promising approach in the management of diabetic foot ulcers

DJ Lim, I Jang - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
In diabetes, lower extremity amputation (LEA) is an irreversible diabetic-related complication
that easily occurs in patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Because DFUs are a clinical …

Australian guideline on offloading treatment for foot ulcers: part of the 2021 Australian evidence‐based guidelines for diabetes‐related foot disease

ME Fernando, M Horsley, S Jones… - Journal of Foot and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Pressure offloading treatment is critical for healing diabetes‐related foot ulcers
(DFU). Yet the 2011 Australian DFU guidelines regarding offloading treatment are outdated …

[HTML][HTML] Orthotic approach to prevention and management of diabetic foot: A narrative review

MC Chang, YJ Choo, IS Park, MW Park… - World Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diabetic foot is a common complication affecting more than one-fifth of patients with
diabetes. If not treated in time, it may lead to diabetic foot ulcers or Charcot arthropathy. For …

Extracellular matrix-inspired biomaterials for wound healing

L Hosty, T Heatherington, F Quondamatteo… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - Springer
Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are a debilitating and life-threatening complication of Diabetes
Mellitus. Ulceration develops from a combination of associated diabetic complications …

Personalized offloading treatments for healing plantar diabetic foot ulcers

G Jarl, DF Rusaw, AJ Terrill… - Journal of diabetes …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Non-removable knee-high devices are the gold-standard offloading treatments
to heal plantar diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). These devices are underused in practice for a …

A tunable self-offloading module for plantar pressure regulation in diabetic patients

B Tiwari, K Jeanmonod, P Germano, C Koechli… - Applied System …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Plantar pressure plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of foot ulcers among patients with
diabetes and peripheral polyneuropathy. Pressure relief is a key requirement for both the …

Differences in adherence to using removable cast walker treatment during daytime and nighttime weight-bearing activities in people with diabetes-related foot ulcers

A Ababneh, K Finlayson, H Edwards… - Therapeutic …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: Patients' adherence to using knee-high offloading treatment is critical to effective
healing of diabetes-related foot ulcers (DFUs). Previous studies have found that patients …

The interdisciplinary approach: preventive and therapeutic strategies for diabetic foot ulcers

C Kurze, CJ Farn, J Siow - Foot and ankle clinics, 2022 - foot.theclinics.com
The average global prevalence of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) is 6.3% with an increasing
trend. The lifetime risk of a diabetic developing a DFU is between 19% and 34% based on a …