Venous ulcers most often develop just above the ankle, ... The surrounding skin is often thin and dry, and there is generally little to no exudate around the ulcer. 5. Treatment.

The most costly and debilitating features of CVI are ulcers on the ankle and lower leg that generally heal slowly ... ankle or legs that does not respond or worsens despite non-surgical treatment.

Ask your foot and ankle surgeon about innovative treatments: If you do experience a non-healing ulcer, talk to your foot and ankle surgeon right away about innovative technologies that stimulate ...

Treatment. Off-loading of the affected area is the standard of care and commonly results in healing the noninfected neuropathic ulcer. Methods of off-loading can be broadly categorized as external ...

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am writing to you about my mom, who is 83. She has been treated for a venous ulcer of her lower right leg. For the past four months she has been seen at a hospital wound care ...

The ulcer was initially treated by debridement ... S., Sochocki, M., Embil, J. M. & Trepman, E. Treatment of Charcot foot and ankle with a prefabricated removable walker brace and custom ...

They also noted it would depend on whether there was enough expertise in these settings to start treatment of leg ulcers in people without peripheral arterial disease more quickly (see section 3.3).