HBOT - Diabetic Foot Ulcers – Saving legs & lives

In India, an estimated 50,000 amputations occur per year due to diabetes related foot problems. A vast majority (85%) of these diabetes-related amputations are preceded by foot ulcers. 

Diabetic foot ulcers and non-healing diabetic wounds India is home to the second highest number of people living with diabetes in the world, after China. Today there are over 45 million people grappling with the disease, and the numbers show no signs of reducing.

Amongst other health hazards, diabetes often leads to peripheral vascular disease, involving both the macro and micro circulation. Statistics reveal that 15% of all those living with the disease will develop foot problems related to diabetes, and may suffer from various deformities of the toes and feet, commonly called ‘diabetic foot conditions’. These can develop from a combination of causes including neuropathy (nerve damage) and/or poor blood supply to the foot, which creates areas of raised pressures in the soles of the feet, where ulcers develop. These ulcers act as portals for the entry for bacteria leading to serious infections, which in the already immune compromised patients can result in amputations or even death.

Diabetic Neuropathy can cause insensitivity or a loss of ability to feel pain, heat, and cold. This makes matters worse for those suffering from neuropathy as they can develop minor cuts, scrapes, blisters, or pressure sores that they may not even be aware of. If left untreated, these minor injuries can lead to serious limb and life threatening infections. 

Extensive epidemiological surveys have indicated that between 40% and 70% of all lower extremity amputations are related to diabetes. This means that every 30 seconds a lower limb is lost to diabetes. 

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy offers interdisciplinary outpatient care that is highly effective in healing wounds that resist conventional therapies. 

The benefits of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in wound healing include: 

Enhanced periwound tissue oxygenation, decreases edema, enhanced oxidative killing of bacteria, enhanced cellular energy production, neoangiogenesis promotion, enhanced epithelial migration, improved collagen production, enhanced granulation- tissue formation…

Diabetic foot wounds can result in limb amputation if not treated with the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as an adjunct to standard care. With addition of  Hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment regime, the wound can be helped to heal and limb amputation may be avoided. Thus saving legs & lives
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