Tag: limb preservation

Mönckeberg: How a Quiet 1903 Autopsy Became the Loudest Plain Film in Limb Preservation #DiabeticFoot #PAD #CLTI #LimbPreservation #ActAgainstAmputation #PMAC #Calcification

Johann Georg Mönckeberg was a Hamburg patrician, born in 1877. His father — same name — was a senator of the free city, with the Mönckebergstrasse running from the Rathaus to the Hauptbahnhof named after him. The son grew up in a household where the name was already on the streets. He studied medicine at... Continue Reading →

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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.

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Ninety-Five Thousand Hands on the Work: A #Citation Milestone, and Why This is Always a Team Sport #ActAgainstAmputation #LimbPreservation @ALPSLimb @KeckSchool_USC @USC_Vascular

Google Scholar ticked over to 95,006 citations overnight. The number is real — the story behind it isn't mine. An h-index of 134 and an i10-index of 568 reflect 568 conversations between collaborators, residents, fellows, patients, and friends. A note on what citations actually are, why limb preservation is and always will be a team sport, and gratitude to everyone whose hand has been on the work.

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The Lennon and McCartney of the Diabetic Foot, Remastered: Rescuing a Hilarious 2008 @ABoultonMD Toast for #Malvern40 #ActAgainstAmputation #DFCon #LimbPreservation @ALPSLimb

Eighteen years ago, Larry Lavery and I stood up at the Malvern Diabetic Foot Meeting dinner and performed four Beatles rewrites in honor of Andrew Boulton. It brought the house down. As Malvern turns 40, here are the videos — writers' room, performance, applause, and Abbey walls — rescued, remastered, and archived for the record.

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“Spooky Action at a Distance”: The Most Comprehensive Review Yet of Physiologic Neuromodulation for Limb Preservation #ActAgainstAmputation #Neuromodulation #SpinalCordStimulation #CLTI @BurnsTrauma @KeckSchool_USC @ResearchatUSC @USC

Our new paper in Burns and Trauma presents the most comprehensive review yet of spooky action at a distance therapies for diabetic limb preservation — from spinal cord stimulation and splenic ultrasound to remote ischemic conditioning and tibial transport. Five modalities, three mechanistic pathways, one shared destination: tissue repair at a distance.

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Dosing Walking Like a Drug: An AI Chatbot for Diabetic Foot Remission Following Limb Reconstruction #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot #Remission #AI #Chatbot @SensorsMDPI @KeckSchool_USC @ALPSLimb @USC_Vascular

A new protocol paper in Sensors describes a chatbot that doses walking like a drug for patients in diabetic foot remission.

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You Are What You Eat — And That’s Pretty Inflammatory: A New Composite Biomarker for DFU Risk #ActAgainstAmputation #DFU #Nutrition @ALPSLimb

A novel inflammation-nutrition biomarker — the neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio (NPAR) — shows strong association with diabetic foot ulcer risk in a 1,002-patient study from Xi'an, China, reinforcing that what patients eat and how they inflame are inseparable in the diabetic foot.

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25 Years of Plantar Pressure Research in #DiabeticFoot Ulcers: A Bibliometric Deep Dive @MDABORATORY #ActAgainstAmputation

A new bibliometric analysis from Wei and colleagues at Capital Medical University in Beijing maps 25 years (2000–2024) of global research on plantar pressure and diabetic foot ulcers — over 2,100 publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. The findings tell a story that will feel familiar to many of us who have... Continue Reading →

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Limb Preservation: The Global State of Play in 2026 — Keynote at ADFA’s Inaugural Meeting in Paris #ActAgainstAmputation @ALPSLimb #DiabeticFoot #LimbPreservation #Paris

Honored to deliver the keynote at the inaugural meeting of ADFA in Paris.

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Control-Alt-Delete: Rebooting the Chronic Wound #ActAgainstAmputation #DFU #WoundHealing @ALPSLimb @KeckSchool_USC @USC_Vascular

Chronic wounds are biological computers stuck in a boot loop. Sharp debridement is Control-Alt-Delete — the histological reboot that converts a chronic wound back into an acute one. Only then can you run the apps.

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