Charcot Foot

[flosemae]

HEY, THERE IS A FORUM WITH A MAN NAMED MARTY THAT HAS HAD THE SURGERY ON HIS CF AND IS DOING REAL WELL..GO TO dLife it is a forum for diabetes and link on to forum {everything but the kitchen sink ).. look for a picture of Marty's surgery (his foot). and in large letters it says ooooow MY Foot and that is him....his wife keeps everyone informed about him and last time I looked he is doing well...I have asked her questions and she always answers...hope this helps...Kathy

[Tj12761]

Hi Kathy!

Marty's wife here! Thank you for pointing the way to dlife and our posts on Marty's care and surgery for Charcot foot. The direct thread link there is:
http://www.dlife.com/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=12615&sid=2ed6860402d7afb7db1f6b0bd3b45d2c

I can be contacted through that link!

[Tj12761]

For everyone following this thread, I wanted to post an article about Brent Bernstein, DPM, FACFAS the surgeon who took care of my husband. Bernstein is a phenomenal man and went out of his way to show us that he cared about hubby and I both. When his name is mentioned in medical circles, it is with awe by other doctors and patients alike yet this man is the most humble person I've met.

His philosophy:
“Wound care and podiatry mirror each other,” Dr. Bernstein says. “Where once it was said ‘People with diabetes don’t heal’, we are now seeing amazing results in wound healing with advanced dressings. The same holds true for advances in reconstructive foot surgery. Charcot patients used to be treated using simple offloading and we would watch them slowly fail because of a chronically swollen foot that eventually becomes ulcerated and infected. Worse yet, many patients with diabetes presenting to the emergency room with a big, red angry-looking foot characteristic of Charcot would be misdiagnosed as having cellulitis, abscess, or infection and an inappropriate amputation would occur. Hopefully, those days have ended. My fellowship showed me we can reconstruct the damage and subsequently the patient’s outlook.”

Read the full article here:
http://www.o-wm.com/article/6241