Plantar pressure in off-loading devices used in diabetic ulcer treatment

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 537-542

  Beuker, Benn J ^a   Van Deursen, Robert W ^b   Price, Patricia ^b   Manning, Erik A ^a   Van Baal, Jeff G ^a   Harding, Keith G ^b  

^a TWENTEBORG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIVALVED TOTAL CONTACT CAST; BRACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; FOOT ULCER; FOREFOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDAR SYSTEM; PLANTAR ULCER; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING BRACE; WALKING SPEED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTER CAST; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; CASTS, SURGICAL; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOES; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33646099626     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2005.00075.x     Document Type: Article

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