Wound Care
becky and yitzchak langer
Description
Collection
Title:
Wound Care
Creator:
becky and yitzchak langer
Date:
2/28/2013
Text:
Hello All.
I was hoping to build off of the Need Zero G AFO advice post from
November. Wound care is a new patient population for me and any help that
I can receive from the larger O&P pool of experience would be greatly
appreciated.
1) What might I see on a patient that would indicate that a simple
treatment such as a DH Pressure Relief Walker or even a foot orthosis with
a doughnut cutout around the wound might be insufficient to offload the
wound for healing and eliminate shear sufficiently?
2) What is your preferred method of treatment for patients coming out of
total contact casts?
3) I have come across a TOAD TAG AFO on someone else's patient and had some
questions about it. The one that I saw did not provide clearance for the
patient's heel during weight bearing. To be fair the patient was
non-compliant and I cannot objectively blame the brace.
a) Can anyone give me some feedback on the TOAD TAG AFO? Is it so
much better than what is out there that it would be ethical to use it on
any wound patient instead of trying something else first?
b) Is there a population that it's contraindicated for?
Thanks in advance.
Yitzchak Langer, CPO
I was hoping to build off of the Need Zero G AFO advice post from
November. Wound care is a new patient population for me and any help that
I can receive from the larger O&P pool of experience would be greatly
appreciated.
1) What might I see on a patient that would indicate that a simple
treatment such as a DH Pressure Relief Walker or even a foot orthosis with
a doughnut cutout around the wound might be insufficient to offload the
wound for healing and eliminate shear sufficiently?
2) What is your preferred method of treatment for patients coming out of
total contact casts?
3) I have come across a TOAD TAG AFO on someone else's patient and had some
questions about it. The one that I saw did not provide clearance for the
patient's heel during weight bearing. To be fair the patient was
non-compliant and I cannot objectively blame the brace.
a) Can anyone give me some feedback on the TOAD TAG AFO? Is it so
much better than what is out there that it would be ethical to use it on
any wound patient instead of trying something else first?
b) Is there a population that it's contraindicated for?
Thanks in advance.
Yitzchak Langer, CPO
Citation
becky and yitzchak langer, “Wound Care,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/234773.
