Open AccessRemaining Question: Does Exercise Improve Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers?
Author(s) -
Magali Brousseau-Foley,
Virginie Blanchette
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the international journal of lower extremity wounds/international journal of lower extremity wounds
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1552-6941
pISSN - 1534-7346
DOI - 10.1177/15347346211063701
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetic foot , diabetic foot ulcer , diabetes mellitus , physical therapy , population , critical appraisal , wound healing , foot (prosody) , intensive care medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , alternative medicine , surgery , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , environmental health , endocrinology
Even though it is reasonable to think that exercise is beneficial to diabetic foot ulcer healing, there are currently no exercise recommendations for this population. A systematic review published recently attempted to answer this question. However, because of both the scarce and heterogenous literature on the subject identified by the selected study design and the chosen quality appraisal tool that is too permissive and overestimates the treatment effects, no clinical recommendations can be drawn from this review. We advocate for research on this topic in order to obtain more direct evidence that exercise benefits wound healing, and to close the persistent gap of knowledge regarding the impact of exercise on diabetic foot ulcer wound healing.