“Custom-made footwear is an effective intervention to help prevent foot ulceration and is recommended in international guidelines,” but ensuring consistent use is “a challenge,” particularly indoors, explain Sicco Bus and co-authors from Amsterdam University Medical Center in the Netherlands … To address this issue, the researchers carried out a study of 31 people with type 1 (23%) or type 2 (77%) diabetes with moderate-to-high risk for plantar foot ulceration who already possessed custom-made footwear prescribed by a rehabilitation medicine specialist. These people were provided with additional custom-made footwear specifically designed for indoor use, with the same biomechanical offloading capacity as their existing footwear … read more