• Home

    • About Let’s Move QC

    • Meet Our Bloggers

  • Success
    Stories

  • Get Fit

  • Eating Smart
    with Jeni

  • Battle of
    the Bulge

  • QC
    Outside

  • Activity
    Calendar

    • What To Do

    • Where To Go

  • Why I
    Move

  • What
    Moves Me

  • ORA
    Health Tips

    Tips on staying in shape, eating right and taking care of your body so you can keep moving.
    • Better Training

  • Home

    • About Let’s Move QC

    • Meet Our Bloggers

  • Success
    Stories

  • Get Fit

  • Eating Smart
    with Jeni

  • Battle of
    the Bulge

  • QC
    Outside

  • Activity
    Calendar

    • What To Do

    • Where To Go

  • Why I
    Move

  • What
    Moves Me

  • ORA
    Health Tips

    • Better Training

HomeORA Health TipsORA Offers New Treatments in Diabetic Foot Care
Previous Next

ORA Offers New Treatments in Diabetic Foot Care

November is Diabetes Awareness Month. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) estimates nearly 30 million Americans or more than 9 percent of the population has diabetes. According to the ADA, diabetes remains the 7th leading cause of death in the United States.

While diabetes is manageable with proper diet and medical treatment, diabetics are prone to complications — especially in their feet. ORA Orthopedics’ podiatric surgeon, Dr. Beau Shay, specializes in diabetic foot care.

beau-shay
Dr. Beau Shay, ORA Orthopedics

“Patients with diabetes typically have additional conditions, such as poor circulation and peripheral neuropathy, putting them at greater risk of suffering slow-healing foot wounds,” he explains.

“Diabetes often causes nerve damage and sensation loss, so a diabetic may injure their foot and not realize it. However, the problem with even small irritations or blistering,” says Dr. Shay, “is that without immediate attention, they can become open wounds.”

“Wounds that don’t heal properly in a timely fashion are at risk for infection that can threaten surrounding tissue, the underlying bones, and in some cases of a severe infection, may require amputation, if it cannot be controlled with local wound care and antibiotics.”

ORA partners with the Genesis Wound and Hyperbaric Institute in Davenport, IA and Moline, IL to care for patients with diabetic foot complications. Traditional therapies have included wound debridements to remove unhealthy tissue, as well as devices like special shoes and insoles or walking boots to relieve the pressure on diabetic wounds.

However, newer treatments are providing more options.

“Therapies such as skin-substitute grafting and hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be very effective in treating these non-healing wounds,” Dr. Shay explains. “We use skin-substitute grafts from human tissue membranes that help recruit the patient’s own cells to heal the wound. I am a big proponent of skin-substitute grafting. It is a great tool to get these wounds to heal more quickly.”

Another option involves hyperbaric oxygen therapy that helps carry oxygen to the wound site. The air pressure in the hyperbaric chambers is about two and a half times greater than the normal pressure in the atmosphere. This helps a patient’s blood carry more oxygen to organs and tissues to help heal wounds.

Dr. Shay recommends regular diabetic foot exams. ORA will provide a routine diabetic foot exam, especially if the patient has a history of foot ulceration or partial foot amputation.

“We make sure to perform an in-depth, comprehensive foot exam for diabetic patients, as well as educate them on daily self foot examinations, adequate blood sugar control and use of diabetic shoes,” says Dr. Shay.

Call ORA for a diabetic foot exam at (563) 322-0971.

Share this:

  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

Rate This Post!
Assistant Editor ORA Offers New Treatments in Diabetic Foot Care November 13, 2018
User rating: 0 (0 votes)

Tags: diabetic foot care, diabetic foot treatment, Dr. Beau Shay, Quad City wound care, skin substitute grafting

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Recent Stories

  • Chasing the “Runners’ High” since the 80s March 22, 2021
  • Keep the Spring in Your Step March 20, 2021
  • QC Baseball & Softball: Preventing Injuries in Kids March 19, 2021
  • Crafter Celebrates Spring Thanks to 3-D Shoulder Replacement Surgery March 18, 2021
  • Wildcat Den State Park “A Gem at Our Doorstep” March 11, 2021

Receive Our FREE Newsletter

Sign Up Now
Click here to receive the monthly
Let's Move Quad Cities e-Newsletter.

Trending Topics

Alan Sivell Aryn Lloyd Beth Davis Bettendorf bicycling Biking Chelsey Bowermaster Cody Lichthardt Davenport Dr. Andrew Bries Dr. Steven Boardman Dr. Waqas Hussain General Orthopedics Hip Replacement Jeni Tackett knee arthroscopy Knee Replacement Nahant Marsh Nutritionist Blogger Jeni Tackett ORA Orthopedics qc dietitian QC dietitian Jeni Tackett QC nutrition expert Jeni Tackett Quad Cities Quad City dietitian Quad City nutrition expert Quad City orthopedic surgeon Quad City personal trainer Quad City Sports Medicine RAGBRAI Rock Island Rock Valley Physical Therapy Rolling Reporter Shoulder Arthroscopy Shoulder Reconstruction Shoulder Replacement Spinal Stenosis Sports Medicine St. Ambrose communications professor St. Ambrose professor St. Ambrose Professor Alan Sivell Total Joint Replacement Wade Ellett Walk with a Doc Wapsi River Center
© Copyright 2019, ORA Orthopedics
  • About Let’s Move QC
%d bloggers like this: