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).

Sayed Ahmed, PhD Candidate and Certified Pedorthist Custom Maker from Australia, has a research project accepted in the first round of the Australian National Industry PhD program in collaboration with Charles Sturt University and Foot Balance Technology.

Shoes and footbeds can help reduce excessive pressure in people with diabetic foot syndrome. One study investigated the role of the top layer of the footbed.