On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
The 2026 ScholarGPS rankings place David G. Armstrong No. 1 worldwide in diabetic foot ulcers for both lifetime and prior-five-years scholarship. A thank-you to the global team behind the work, with milestones from 75,000 to 100,000 citations.
Congratulations to Stephen Twigg, Pete Lazzarini, Joel Lasschuit and the Australian team: their national foot registry shows how shared measurement can support better care—and why the U.S. and the world should build on this work.
A life-affirming Manchester celebration of my mentor, Professor Andrew J. M. Boulton: science, friendship, gratitude, and the work we carry forward.
A new partial calcanectomy case series revisits the central idea behind our 2010 “Hurricane” incision: incision design can be part of limb preservation.
Stacey Schepens Niemiec, Tze-Woei Tan, and USC colleagues adapt Lifestyle Redesign® occupational therapy to help fit diabetic foot care into everyday life. The intervention is ready for testing; clinical effectiveness remains to be established.
An amputation should trigger more than a wound-care plan. New Swedish data sharpen the case for coordinated cardiovascular care—and a longer view of recovery.
A Georgetown-centered case series asks whether partial calcanectomy after midfoot amputation can preserve both the limb and meaningful walking. The answer is encouraging, but anatomy and function are not the same outcome.
A provocative 2026 cohort moves PMMA away from the diabetic foot wound and into remote calf tunnels. The idea is genuinely interesting—but extensive decompression, major reporting problems, and an unproven mechanism make this a signal to investigate, not a treatment to adopt.
At the 2026 VASSA Congress in Gqeberha, four international keynotes, decades of friendship, and a locally led consensus process converged around one life-affirming goal: making preventable amputation less inevitable across South Africa.
A major Western Pacific review led by Byron Perrin and Peter Lazzarini maps the world’s largest regional diabetes-related foot disease burden—and eight practical ways countries can strengthen care.
