The Why, What and Where Podcast on the Updated 2023 IWGDF Guideline on Offloading Treatments for Diabetes-Related Foot Ulcers

Sicco A Bus; Peter A Lazzarini

doi:10.1007/s13300-023-01522-1

The Why, What and Where Podcast on the Updated 2023 IWGDF Guideline on Offloading Treatments for Diabetes-Related Foot Ulcers

Diabetes Ther. 2024 Mar 23. doi: 10.1007/s13300-023-01522-1. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Sicco A Bus^{1

2}, Peter A Lazzarini^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Program Rehabilitation and Development, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Peter.Lazzarini@health.qld.gov.au.
⁴ Allied Health Research Collaborative, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. Peter.Lazzarini@health.qld.gov.au.

PMID: 38520602
DOI: 10.1007/s13300-023-01522-1

Abstract

In this podcast the lead authors of the 2023 International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) guideline on offloading treatments for diabetes-related foot ulcers briefly discuss why we need offloading treatments for people with diabetes-related foot ulcers, what the new international offloading guideline recommends, and where offloading treatment might go into the future.A podcast audio is available with this article.

Keywords: Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic foot; Foot ulcer; Footwear; Guideline; Off-loading; Offloading; Offloading device; Pressure; Surgery.