Publications

Diabetic Footcare
for the 21st Century



Some recent publications on the topic of diabetic foot complications by DIApedia personnel are listed below. The links lead to abstracts on the National Institute of Health’s PubMed site.

Cavanagh PR, Owings TM. Nonsurgical strategies for healing and preventing recurrence of diabetic foot ulcers. Foot Ankle Clin. 2006 Dec;11(4):735-43. (View Abstract)

Vileikyte L, Gonzalez JS, Leventhal H, Peyrot MF, Rubin RR, Garrow A, Ulbrecht JS, Cavanagh PR, Boulton AJ. Patient Interpretation of Neuropathy (PIN) questionnaire: an instrument for assessment of cognitive and emotional factors associated with foot self-care. Diabetes Care. 2006 Dec;29(12):2617-24. (View Abstract)

Petre MT , Erdemir A, Cavanagh PR. Determination of elastomeric foam parameters for simulations of complex loading. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2006 Aug;9(4):231-42. (View Abstract)

Symons Downs D, Ulbrecht JS. Understanding exercise beliefs and behaviors in women with gestational diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Care. 2006 Feb;29(2):236-40. (View Abstract)

Vileikyte L, Leventhal H, Gonzalez JS, Peyrot M, Rubin RR, Ulbrecht JS, Garrow A, Waterman C, Cavanagh PR, Boulton AJ. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy and depressive symptoms: the association revisited. Diabetes Care. 2005 Oct;28(10):2378-83. (View Abstract)

Jeffcoate WJ, Game F, Cavanagh PR.  The role of proinflammatory cytokines in the cause of neuropathic osteoarthropathy (acute Charcot foot) in diabetes. Lancet. 2005 Dec 10;366(9502):2058-61. (View Abstract)

Cavanagh PR, Lipsky BA, Bradbury AW, Botek G .  Treating diabetic foot ulcers.  Lancet  2005, Nov 12;366(9498):1725-1735. (View Abstract)

Petre M, Tokar P, Kostar D and Cavanagh PR. (2005) Revisiting the total contact cast: maximizing off-loading by wound isolation, Diabetes Care, 28: 929-930.(View Abstract)  

Erdemir A , Saucerman JJ, Lemmon D, Loppnow B, Turso B, Ulbrecht JS and Cavanagh PR (2005) Local plantar pressure relief in therapeutic footwear: design guidelines from finite element models, Journal of Biomechanics, 38: 1798-1806. (View Abstract)

Goske S, Erdemir A, Petre M, Budhabhatti S, and Cavanagh PR (2005) Reduction of plantar heel pressures: insole design using finite element analysis, Journal of Biomechanics (in press 2005 Sep 27; [Epub ahead of print]). (View Abstract

Erdemir A, Viveiros ML, Ulbrecht JS, and Cavanagh PR (2005) An inverse finite element model of heel pad indentation, Journal of Biomechanics (in press May 17; [Epub ahead of print]). (View Abstract)

Bus SA, Ulbrecht JS. and Cavanagh PR (2004) Pressure relief and load redistribution by custom-made insoles in diabetic patients with neuropathy and foot deformity, Clinical Biomechanics,19: 629-638. (View Abstract)

Cavanagh PR (2004) Can therapeutic footwear help protect the insensate diabetic foot? Intl Diabetes Monitor, 16:10-16.

Cavanagh PR (2004) Therapeutic footwear for people with diabetes, Diabetes Metab Res Rev., 20: S51-S55. (View Abstract)

Ulbrecht JS, Cavanagh PR , Caputo GM. Foot problems in diabetes: an overview. Clin Infect Dis. 2004 Aug 1;39 Suppl 2:S73-82. Review.