Foot Injury ManagementPatient Guidanceplantar ulcerationsair cast bootfootmedial longitudinal archmidfoot
What are the alternatives to wearing a plaster cast for a diabetic foot problem?
Mr Ernest Barlow-Kearsley discusses why people with diabetic foot problems may need to wear a plaster cast on their lower leg and foot and what the alternatives could possibly be.
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What would be the progression, sir, if someone didn't want to have a cast? If the patient didn't want to have a cast, then you would need to caution them very carefully. You could put them into an air cast boot. Unfortunately, this allows the patient to weight bear in a way that is not as protective as a cast and it can then progress into a disorganized disruption of the midfoot and the foot can then assume a very flat position and then eventually end up in a rocker bottom shape which is predisposing the patient to plantar ulcerations in the medial longitudinal arch.
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