Professor David G. Armstrong Appointed Honorary Professor at Chongqing University Central Hospital #ActAgainstAmputation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Professor David G. Armstrong Appointed Honorary Professor at Chongqing University Central Hospital Chongqing, China – May 17, 2025 — In a ceremony held at the Chongqing Emergency Medical Center, part of Chongqing University Central Hospital, internationally renowned surgeon and diabetes specialist Professor David G. Armstrong was officially appointed as an Honorary Professor. The event underscored a... Continue Reading →

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Global Leaders Unite in Shijiazhuang China to Combat Diabetes and Prevent Amputation #ActAgainstAmputation

Faculty from the 11th Shijiazhuang International Diabetes Congress FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Global Leaders Unite in Shijiazhuang to Combat Diabetes and Prevent Amputation Shijiazhuang, China – May 16, 2025 — The 11th Shijiazhuang International Diabetes Conference, held at The Second Hospital of Shijiazhuang, convened more than 1000 clinicians, scientists, and policy leaders from across China and around the... Continue Reading →

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When Cultures Lie? Rethinking Residual Osteomyelitis Assessment #ActAgainstAmputation #Microbiology #DiabeticFoot

A new study published in The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds by our long time friends and colleagues in Spain offers a cautionary reminder: not all positive cultures mean bone infection. In a cohort of 93 patients undergoing conservative surgery for diabetic foot osteomyelitis, researchers compared microbiological cultures from bone resection margins with histopathology—the gold standard. Their... Continue Reading →

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Incidence of Charcot Arthropathy: A Nationwide Study #ActAgainstAmputation

Acute Charcot foot remains one of the most disabling complications of diabetic neuropathy. While classically rare, a new nationwide study from Denmark suggests that its story is more nuanced than previously thought: See Ahmed 2025 Incidence of Charcot in Denmark. From 2000 to 2021, researchers tracked more than 265,000 patients with diabetes across Denmark and... Continue Reading →

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A Step Forward in Foot Care: Low-Cost Indigenous Offloading Sandal Matches Imported Devices in Healing Diabetic Ulcer #ActAgainstAmputation #Offloading #DFU #DiabeticFoot

Screenshot In an important pilot study from Chennai, India, Prof. Vijay Viswanathan and his team at the M.V. Hospital for Diabetes and Prof. M. Viswanathan Diabetes Research Centre have shown that a low-cost, indigenously developed offloading sandal is just as effective as a far more expensive imported counterpart in healing diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) . The... Continue Reading →

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Leading The Global Charge In Diabetic Foot Education: The American Limb Preservation Society #Canada #USA #ActAgainstAmputation

Here's a Canadian-American collaboration that is profoundly interdisciplinary and positively life-affirming. Screenshot Screenshot For more about this initiative...see here!

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Celebrating 20 Years of CLEAR Vision and Impact @RFUniversity @ALPSLimb

The Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research (CLEAR) at Rosalind Franklin University just marked its 20th anniversary—a major milestone in advancing science, training, and care for people with lower extremity complications. Founded by Dr. David G. Armstrong in 2004, CLEAR has grown into one of the world’s most productive and influential programs of its kind.... Continue Reading →

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Every Clinic Counts: New Study Shows Individual Teams Can Change the Odds for Limb Preservation in US Veterans #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot

A new national study published in JAMA Network Open offers a hopeful message for clinicians and care teams: where and how patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are treated makes a measurable difference in whether they keep their limbs . Researchers led by Hiroyuki Suzuki, MD, MSCI, and including our long-time friend and colleague Prof. Jeff Robbins, VACO Podiatry... Continue Reading →

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A Smart Leap Forward: Continuous Wound Monitoring with iCares Smart bandage from Caltech and USC teams #EpidermalElectronics #ActAgainstAmputation @Caltech @Keckschool_USC @USC_Vascular

Chronic wounds represent one of the most persistent challenges in modern healthcare, often leading to prolonged suffering and substantial economic burden. Today, the management of these wounds still largely relies on intermittent clinical assessments and subjective classification systems, which can delay detection of infection or impaired healing. A new study, born out of a powerful... Continue Reading →

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Rethinking mildly infected diabetic foot ulcers: lessons from Gleason and cancer taxonomy #ActAgainstAmputation

Inspired by much recent discussion as well as a blog post from 13 years ago, here is a manuscript just published. After further discussion with Prof. Ben Lipsky, he raises the interesting idea of calling some of these "infection in situ" just like cancer in situ.

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