blindness, heart and kidney dysfunction caused by vascular diseases, neurological and vascular lesions caused by foot ulcers, infection and necrosis .
For the foot of this disease is also known as diabetic foot. In diabetic patients more than 15% will at some time in their lives of foot ulcers or necrosis.
A result of diabetic foot amputations due to non-diabetic patients were 15 times more than all the amputations each year about 50% of patients are diabetic.
The early diabetic foot may be just a certain part of foot ulceration, if not treated early, ulcers may be expanded, or even co-infection, causing
osteomyelitis.
And different from normal wounds, diabetic foot due to damage to nerves and blood vessels, organize and very inadequate nutrition, decreased healing
capacity, so that the long-term non-healing wounds. Even if a doctor active treatment, treatment time was longer than normal wounds, many patients need more
than 3 months or half a year time for wound dressing, debridement and other processing. Even so, some people are still unable to control due to wound
infection, leading to inflammation expanded amputations. Thus, diabetic foot great harm on people. Recently, in China for the first time the introduction of
extracorporeal shock wave treatment of diabetic foot ulcers, in order to bring the Gospel in patients with diabetic foot.
