DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Investigator's Abstract): Gastrointestinal (GI) ulceration and hemorrhage is a major health problem in our country representing billions of dollars in health care costs and lost revenues from work place. Despite sophisticated therapeutic agents, the… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the US at least 200,000 diabetes related foot ulcers per year affect patients and the majority of the more than 80,000 lower extremity amputations performed in diabetic patients per year are preceded by a foot ulcer. Usual care ulcer healing rates are… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The design and manufacture of custom insoles for patients with diabetes using CAD/CAM technology has the potential to revolutionize the quality of care provided to diabetic patients with a history of foot ulceration, or preferably to the much larger group of… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over 15% of diabetic patients will experience a foot ulcer. Foot ulcers are expensive both in terms of cost of care and work productivity lost. Foot ulcers are also the dominant contributory cause to the more than 80,000 amputations performed in the US each year… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the US more than 80,000 lower extremity amputations are performed in diabetic patients per year. Foot ulcers are much more common and the path to most amputations starts with an ulcer. The health care cost of these problems has been estimated to be almost $11… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The design and manufacture of custom insoles using CAD/CAM has the potential to revolutionize the care of diabetic patients at risk for foot ulceration, thereby preventing amputations. Using this approach, individualization of orthotics could become much more… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Diabetes remains the leading cause of non-traumatic lower extremity amputations. Most amputations are preceded by a foot ulcer, so that successfully treating, or better still preventing, foot ulcers should reduce the n umber of diabetes related amputations. The… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): DIApedia, LLC has developed and scientifically validated a system for the design and production of therapeutic insoles for diabetic patients, the TrueContour(R) therapeutic insole system. In this SBIR proposal we aim to further develop and extend the… More

Although footwear science has made considerable progress in the last decade, a performance gap continues to exist between standard issue military footwear and expedition footwear available on the commercial market. While the provision of in-shoe foot orthoses (ISFOs) is commonplace in commercial… More