Activity Patterns of Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulceration: Patients with active ulceration may not adhere to a standard pressure off-loading regimen

Emerging Treatments and Technologies

Activity Patterns of Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulceration

¹Department of Surgery, Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
²Department of Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, U.K
³Scott and White Hospital, Temple, Texas
⁴Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida

Address correspondence and reprint requests to D.G. Armstrong, Department of Surgery, Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3601 South Sixth Ave., Tucson, AZ 85723. E-mail: armstrong{at}usa.net

Diabetes Care 2003 Sep; 26(9): 2595-2597. https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.26.9.2595

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Figure 1—
Example of graphic output of waist- and RCW-worn activity monitors. The top graph represents output from the waist-worn activity monitor, and the bottom represents the RCW-worn device. Note that at 3:11 p.m., the patient’s RCW monitor fails to register, whereas the waist-worn device continues to record activity, implying removal of the RCW at that time.
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Figure 2—
Activity of patients with ulcers with and without protective off-loading device. *P = 0.01. Error bars represent SE of mean.