The patient with Charcot foot is seldom studied for their body’s ability to heal an open diabetic foot ulcer. These patients are usually excluded from all prospective randomized trials. Over a 5-year period, patients with Charcot arthropathy (CA) have been shown to have a 63% chance of developing a CA foot ulcer (CAFU), and those with a foot ulcer have a 37% mortality within the same timeframe.¹ To the authors’ knowledge, a correlation between healing a CAFU and mortality reduction has not been indicated. It is well-known that healing such ulcers improves quality of life and reduces the chance of hospitalization. The primary modality to heal such an ulcer is maintaining or creating a plantar grade foot.1 In a retrospective study of 106 patients with CAFU, Schmidt and Holmes² reported that 44% of the patients’ ulcers had healed, 11% had received a minor amputation, and only 9% had undergone major amputation … read more