On the Whole Etymology of the Hole in Skin: Wound, Ulcer & a Dinner in Bremen with Sicco Bus #DiabeticFoot #Etymology #LimbPreservation

Over dinner at EWMA-DEWU in Bremen with longtime collaborator and renowned biomechanist Prof. Sicco Bus, talk drifted from classification to language — and to why English insists on two words for the same hole in the body. A slow look at what wound vs. ulcer is silently encoding every time we write it down.

The Invisible Barrier: Are We Actually Beating Biofilm or Just Guessing? #ActAgainstAmputation #WoundHealing #CIBL #ChronicWounds @ResearchAtUSC @KeckSchool_USC @USC_Vascular

Biofilms are the silent drivers of chronicity in diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). We talk about them constantly. We blame them for stalled healing. But when you peel back the layers of current literature, how much hard clinical evidence do we actually have that our interventions are destroying them? In our latest systematic review, published in... Continue Reading →

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