Total Contact Soft Cast in Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Diabetic Foot Ulcer, Diabetes Mellitus, Foot Ulcer
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Eligibility Criteria
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
Sites / Locations
- University of MinnesotaRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
Experimental
No Intervention
Soft Cast with a Removable Cam Boot
Soft Cast without a Removable Cam Boot
Conventional
Patients with a foot, ankle, or lower leg ulcer (which we expect to be mostly diabetic foot ulcers) will be provided with a total contact soft cast with removable cam boot.
Patients with a foot, ankle, or lower leg ulcer (which we expect to be mostly diabetic foot ulcers) will be provided with a total contact soft cast.
Patients with a foot, ankle, or lower leg ulcer (which we expect to be mostly diabetic foot ulcers) will use conventional offloading including total contact casting, removable cast boots (cam boots), CROW boots, bracing, AFO's, offloading shoes, insoles, padding, shoe modifications, crutches, wheelchairs, rollabout, and surgical correction.