Diabetic Foot
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2022) | Viewed by 65730
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gait and motion analysis in children and adults; musculoskeletal modeling and finite element modeling; foot and ankle biomechanics; plantar pressure sensors; electromyography; sport biomechanics and ACL injury prevention; data mining; Rehabilitation Engineering with special focus on diabetic foot; Parkinson’s disease and low back pain; markerless motion capture; multiple sensors integration
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Interests: diabetic foot; risk foot; medical thermography; infrared thermography; health sciences; surgery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic diabetes complications represent the most relevant problem in terms of clinical management, socio-economic impact, and healthcare system costs linked to diabetes. Ten years after disease onset, between 20 and 50% of patients develop diabetes neuropathy, which is a major risk factor for diabetic foot problems. This represents the most common cause of non-traumatic amputation. In the presence of neuropathy, elevated plantar pressure is an important risk factor for foot ulcer formation and maintenance. In recent years, there has been a large emphasis on the development of different approaches to diabetic foot prevention. The challenge for different healthcare professionals, such as clinicians and caregivers, bioengineers, computer engineers, and kinesiologists is to promote multidisciplinary approaches to diabetic foot prevention, which include physiological and functional monitoring technologies.
Recent developments in wearable sensing technologies, modeling, and biomechanics offer exciting opportunities for providing insights into novel and emerging biomarkers of diabetes and its complications with special reference to diabetic foot.
This Special Issue will present recent research findings on the development and application of sensor technologies in measurements and modeling of human biomechanical and physiological parameters associated with diabetic foot prevention. In particular, the Special Issue will report on various approaches including the application of biomechanical sensors (i.e., IMU, video analysis, plantar pressure, electromyography, force sensors) in the disease assessment, functional diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation; novel applications of continuous monitoring of both functional and physiological parameters in diabetic foot patients.
Dr. ZIMI SAWACHA
Prof. Dr. Álvaro Astasio Picado
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Diabetic foot biomechanics
- plantar pressure
- diabetic foot gait analysis
- diabetic foot prevention
- physiological modeling applied to diabetic foot
- wearable sensors
- diabetic foot biomarkers
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