RECRUITINGINTERVENTIONAL

Total Contact Soft Cast in Diabetic Foot Ulcers

About This Trial

To determine the effectiveness, compliance, patient tolerance, ease of use and safety of total contact soft cast in diabetic foot ulcers.

Who May Be Eligible (Plain English)

Who May Qualify: \- Any adult with a diabetic foot ulcer Who Should NOT Join This Trial: - Allergy to Calamine or Zinc oxide - Inability to have leg wrapped - Inability to be seen weekly or as needed - Unable or unwilling to consent - Prisoners - Persons lacking capacity to consent Always talk to your doctor about whether this trial is right for you.

Original Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria: \- Any adult with a diabetic foot ulcer Exclusion Criteria: * Allergy to Calamine or Zinc oxide * Inability to have leg wrapped * Inability to be seen weekly or as needed * Unable or unwilling to consent * Prisoners * Persons lacking capacity to consent

Treatments Being Tested

DEVICE

Total Contact Soft Cast

The total contact soft cast will consist of wound dressing of choice to the ulcer and a plantar foot accommodative offloading felt pad for all foot ulcers, with 4x4 gauze pads added to the arch to create a rocker bottom for metarsophalangeal joint (MPJj) and plantar heel ulcers. The next layers will be: * Unna boot from MPJs to just below the knee, * Sterile Kerlix from MPJs to just below the knee * Sterile 4 inch Kling wrap from the MPJs to just below the knee, * Four inch coban from MPJs to just below the knee, and * Ace wraps from MPJs to just below the knee

DEVICE

Cam Boot

Removable Diabetic cam boot will be used in patients willing and capable of using it. If patient does not want to use Diabetic cam boot then surgical shoe or regular shoe would be options.

Locations (1)

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States