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Plain-language articles on the questions that come up with a foot wound: why it isn’t healing, what treatment involves, when surgery helps, and how to keep a healed foot healthy.
Featured · Ulcers & offloading
A painless sore on the foot can be more serious than it looks. What the research shows about waiting, what thorough wound care covers, and when surgery is the step that saves the foot.
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Circulation & healing
Calcified leg arteries can make ankle pressures look normal, or even high, when the foot is short of blood. Why toe pressures give a truer picture, and how the numbers shape wound care and surgery.
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Ulcers & offloading
A total contact cast stays on day and night for several weeks. What casting day, cast changes, showers, sleep, work and driving are like, and when to call us.
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Ulcers & offloading
Do skin substitutes work for diabetic foot ulcers? In trials, they help more stalled ulcers close. What the evidence shows, what it leaves out, and when surgery is the more direct fix.
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Infection & bone
A bone infection in the foot is serious, but most people keep their leg. How it is treated, what the studies show, and when surgery is the step that saves the foot.
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Circulation & healing
Who benefits from hyperbaric oxygen? Some slow-healing foot ulcers, not most. What the trials show about who gains, who doesn’t, and what has to happen first.
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Limb salvage surgery
An ulcer on the tip of a bent toe is usually a pressure problem with a small fix. How a flexor tenotomy works, who it suits, what the trials found and the trade-offs.
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Limb salvage surgery
A tight calf can keep an ulcer under the ball of the foot from healing or staying healed. Who the operation suits, what the trials found and the trade-offs.
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Limb salvage surgery
Keeping the heel and ankle can mean walking in a shoe instead of on an artificial leg, but a transmetatarsal amputation has to heal to pay off. What the studies show and what tips the choice.
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Limb salvage surgery
A collapsed Charcot foot can often be realigned and fused so it rests flat again. What reconstruction achieves, who it suits and what it asks of you.
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For everyday foot care, sports injuries and non-surgical basics, see the Ozturk Foot & Ankle blog (external site). These articles are general information, not medical advice; read our editorial policy to see how they are sourced and reviewed.
Appointments
A visit can show what is keeping the wound open and what will help it close: careful wound care first, and surgery when it is the step that saves the foot. See us within a day or two for any foot wound that isn’t healing, especially with diabetes.