Plantar pressures in diabetic patients with foot ulcers which have remained healed

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1141-1146

  Owings, T M ^b   Apelqvist, J ^c   Stenstrom A ^d   Becker, M ^e   Bus, S A ^f   Kalpen, A ^g   Ulbrecht, J S ^e   Cavanagh, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g Novel GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barefoot pressure measurement; In shoe pressure measurement; Neuropathy; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLANTAR ULCER; PRESCRIPTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SELF REPORT; SHOE;

AGED; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PRESSURE; RECURRENCE; SHOES; WALKING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 70350783889     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2009.02835.x     Document Type: Article

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