On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
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.
A Stanford team has taught an algorithm to translate Doppler sounds into clinically meaningful ankle-brachial index ranges—potentially bringing vascular assessment closer to the point of care.
A new systematic review and meta-analysis supports functional moisturizers—particularly urea-containing formulations—for diabetic foot xerosis on intact skin.
A new Diabetes Care registry study shows that Charcot neuro-osteoarthropathy is far more than a local foot disorder. Following diagnosis, nearly nine in ten patients required emergency hospitalization, almost one-third underwent amputation, and only 44% were alive and amputation-free at five years.
