Diabetes

An international working group has updated the Australian guideline on footwear for people with diabetes. For the update the authors reviewed new footwear publications, (inter)national guidelines, and consensus expert opinion alongside the 2013 Australian footwear guideline.

If you want to treat wounds on the diabetic foot in a sustainable way, it is crucial to recognize the ­biomechanic causes for their origin – and to treat them, too. Based on this insight, Dr. Dirk Hochlenert and Dr. Gerald Engels together with Dr. Stephan Morbach and their network partners developed the so-called “Entitäten-Konzept” (entities concept).