TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Cross-Over Studies
KW - Female
KW - Foot Ulcer
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Orthotic Devices
KW - Severity of Illness Index
KW - Wound Healing
AU - Cross H
AU - Kulkarni V N
AU - Dey A
AU - Rendall G
AB - <p>A controlled trial was implemented to investigate the hypothesis that plantar ulcer sites associated with leprosy, in subjects who were supplied with foot orthoses, would heal more quickly than those in a control group. The population was comprised of individuals with impairments associated with leprosy, living near a leprosy hospital in India. Ulcer area was compared in the two groups and assessed at three-monthly intervals from July 1993 to March 1994. At the March 1994 assessment 58% of ulcers in the experimental group had healed but only 14% in the control group. At this point patients in the control group were supplied with orthoses and three months later, in June 1994, 60% of the ulcers in the experimental group and 62% of ulcers in the control group had healed. The results of this study demonstrate that orthotic intervention can significantly reduce the duration of ulceration.</p>
BT - Journal of wound care
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8954434?dopt=Abstract
CN - CROSS1996
DA - 1996 Oct
IS - 9
J2 - J Wound Care
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A controlled trial was implemented to investigate the hypothesis that plantar ulcer sites associated with leprosy, in subjects who were supplied with foot orthoses, would heal more quickly than those in a control group. The population was comprised of individuals with impairments associated with leprosy, living near a leprosy hospital in India. Ulcer area was compared in the two groups and assessed at three-monthly intervals from July 1993 to March 1994. At the March 1994 assessment 58% of ulcers in the experimental group had healed but only 14% in the control group. At this point patients in the control group were supplied with orthoses and three months later, in June 1994, 60% of the ulcers in the experimental group and 62% of ulcers in the control group had healed. The results of this study demonstrate that orthotic intervention can significantly reduce the duration of ulceration.</p>
PY - 1996
SP - 406
EP - 11
T2 - Journal of wound care
TI - Plantar ulceration in patients with leprosy.
VL - 5
SN - 0969-0700
ER -