IWGDF Guidance on Footwear and Offloading Interventions to Prevent and Heal Foot Ulcers in Patients with Diabetes
PRACTICE-BASED PRACTICE-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE DIABETIC FOOT ON THE DIABETIC FOOT IWGDF Guidance on footwear and offloading interventions to prevent and heal foot ulcers in patients with diabetes Prepared by the IWGDF Working Group on Footwear and Offloading Recommendations Authors 1 2 3 4 5 6 The challenge of the The challenge of the S. A. Bus ; D. G. Armstrong ; R. W. van Deursen ; J. Lewis ; C. F. Caravaggi ; and P. R. Cavanagh ; on 2015 2015 behalf of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) International Working Group InternationalIntroduction Working Group Institutions on the Diabetic Foot onCasting the Diabeticand prefabricated Foot 1 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, healing devices the Netherlands 2 Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), Department of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA Therapeutic footwear 3 School of Health Care Sciences, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. 4 Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, UK. 5 University Vita Salute San Raffaele and Diabetic Foot Clinic, Istituto Clinico Città Studi, Milan, Italy. Surgical offloading 6 Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, interventions USA. Other offloading Address of correspondence interventions Dr. Sicco A. Bus, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Room A01-419, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam,
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