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A wound needs a good blood supply to heal, and narrowed leg arteries often play a part when a foot wound is slow to close. These articles explain the warning signs of poor circulation, the tests that measure blood flow in the foot, how restoring flow with a vascular specialist fits with wound care and surgery, and the other treatments that help a stubborn wound along.
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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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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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.