Tag: limb preservation

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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One in Three: What the First Year of DFU Remission Really Looks Like #ActAgainstAmputation @DiabetologyMdpi @ALPSLimb @KeckSchool_USC #DFU #Remission #Survivorship

A new systematic review finds that roughly one in three adults in remission after a healed diabetic foot ulcer develop a recurrent ulcer within 12 months — a risk comparable to several common cancers. Healing is the beginning of the next chapter, not the end of the story.

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Nearly a Million Words Later: What 17 Years of DiabeticFootOnline Look Like in a Word Cloud #ActAgainstAmputation @ALPSlimb

Nearly a Million Words Later: What 17 Years of DiabeticFootOnline Look Like in a Word Cloud I recently did something I probably should have done a long time ago. I pointed an AI at every single blog post on this site—all 3,835 of them—and asked it to show me what nearly two decades of writing... Continue Reading →

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Marrying Data with Common Sense: Is it Safe to Amputate a Toe at Bedside in an Inpatient Unit? #ActAgainstAmputation

In the world of diabetic foot care, we often find ourselves at a crossroads when a patient presents with isolated toe necrosis. Traditionally, this meant an automatic ticket to the operating room (OR) for a conventional amputation surgery (CAS). But as operating rooms become increasingly crowded and resources stretched thin, we have to ask: is... Continue Reading →

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