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How Medical Foods Help Support Healing Diabetic Foot Ulcers
David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, discusses his recently published study "Nutrition Interventions in Adults with Diabetic Foot Ulcers" in which he shares how medical foods can be incorporated into treatment plans when supporting the healing of diabetic foot ulcers.
Transcript:
Dr. David G. Armstrong: I'm David Armstrong. I'm a professor of surgery here at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in beautiful, Los Angeles, California. I helped to run our limb preservation program, as well as our research group called SALSA, fittingly, or the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance.
There's quite a lot of data now to support the use of medical food interventions that are discussed in the guidelines. I think those can be put in on top to try to highlight the role of, for instance, improving protein or something that might have played a role in improved blood flow or maybe an anti‑inflammatory component.
There's a whole host of interventions that may play a role in helping, not only helping to heal people, but to keep them healed in what we call remission and diabetic foot remission where we can maximize. Also free days and hospital free days and activity‑rich days for all of our patients.
