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Keeping the Sound Limb Sound: Foot Issues for Amputees with Diabetes

Date Activated: 12/17/2007 (Last Updated 03/17/2009)
Contributed By: Amputee Coalition of America (ACA)
Author: Robert Gailey
This article emphasizes that management of the sound limb plays a key role when planning a rehabilitation program for the lower-limb amputee with diabetes. People with diabetes who have one amputation are at risk for future amputations, whether due to continued diabetic complications or biomechanical changes from using a prosthesis. Patients should be advised of this risk and instructed in preventive limb care, as well as provided appropriate clinical follow-up.

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