Exercise Enhances Wound Healing in Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Diabetic Foot Ulcer
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
- 20 - 80 years of age
- Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) > 0.6 or Toe Pressure (TcPO2) > 40 mmHg
- recent (within 12 weeks) blood glucose value between 100 - 350 mg/dL
- recent (within 12 weeks) HbA1c value < 14 %,
- DFU of WIfI Grade 2 or less
- fluency in reading and speaking English or Spanish.
Exclusion Criteria:
- inability to provide own consent
- inability to obtain permission to participate from a medical professional
- lack of consistent mode of transportation to UNMH
- infection to any part of the body
- patients that has had a transplant and/or is immunocompromised
- prisoners.
Sites / Locations
- UNM Cardiac Rehabilitation ServicesRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Treatment-as-usual plus medically-supervised exercise (TAU-EX)
Treat-as-usual (TAU)
This group attends normal wound care appointments as scheduled with the wound care provider, generally 2 - 3 times per week. Coincident with these appointments, ideally, they will also attend a medically-supervised exercise program supervised by the exercise physiologists of the Cardiac Rehabilitation facility. The exercise sessions will last no more than 1-hr per session. The maximum number of sessions possibly attended over the 12-wk intervention period is 36. In addition, participants in this group will maintain their activities of daily life unless contraindicated by the would care provider.
This group attends normal wound care appointments as scheduled with the wound care provider, generally 2 - 3 times per week. In addition, participants in this group will maintain their activities of daily life unless contraindicated by the would care provider.