For a patient with type 1 diabetis and a heel ulcer, could the addition of electical stimulation to standard wound treatment improve wound healing over standard wound treatment alone?

Physical Therapy

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 290-296

  Grim, Stephanie B ^a   Duffy, Jordan M ^a   Theodosopoulos, Peter N ^a   Fish, Dale R ^a   Ohtake, Patricia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; INSULIN GLARGINE; INSULIN LISPRO; QUINAPRIL;

AGED; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETIC FOOT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037345869     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/83.3.290     Document Type: Review

References (2)

1. Margolis DJ, Kantor J, Berlin JA. Healing of diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers receiving standard treatment: a meta-analysis. Diabetes Care. 1999;22:692-695.
2. Birke JA, Sims DS. Plantar senory threshold in the ulcerative foot. Lepr Rev. 1986;57:261-267.