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Total contact cast wall load in patients with a plantar forefoot ulcer and diabetes

BACKGROUND: The total contact cast (TCC) is an effective intervention to reduce plantar pressure in patients with diabetes and a plantar forefoot ulcer. The walls of the TCC have been indirectly shown to bear approximately 30 % of the plantar load. A new direct method to measure inside the TCC walls...

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Autores principales: Begg, Lindy, McLaughlin, Patrick, Vicaretti, Mauro, Fletcher, John, Burns, Joshua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4704431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26744604
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13047-015-0119-0