Comparison of micro current therapy and low level laser therapy in treating diabetic foot ulcer

Abstract

Diabetic foot ulcer is a challenging condition in the field of medicine newlineand surgery in terms of healing. Foot ulceration is common, affecting up to newline25% of diabetes during the lifetime. Over 85% of lower limb amputations are newlinepreceded by foot ulcers. Diabetes remains a major cause of non-traumatic newlineamputation across the world with rates being as much as 15 times higher than newlinein the non-diabetic population. Prevention is the first step towards solving newlinediabetic foot problems. The fact is that up to 85% of all amputations in newlinediabetes can be preventable. The alarming facts given above have shown that newlinethere is an increase in the number of diabetes and diabetic foot ulcer. Diabetic foot ulcers requires long period to heal and conventional treatments available newlineones are expensive and need long hospital stay. The diabetic foot ulcer newlinedepending on the type of wound depth, blood circulation, immunity level, their newlinenutritional statues, and socioeconomic background were adhere to the newlinetreatment and ulcer dressing. There are various therapeutic interventions newlinedirected towards reduction of diabetic foot ulcer. It is imperative that only few newlineof them were partially successful and few unsuccessful in reducing the size of newlineulcer. Apart from that these makes hospital stay longer and will be physically newlineand mentally depressed. There is various treatment modalities commonly newlineused in physical therapy for wound healing they are as follows 1. Low level newlinelaser therapy which is considered an effective therapeutic method in wound newlinehealing it promotes the reduction of the inflammatory phase, favoring the newlineangiogenesis and the production of extracellular matrix components which newlinepromotes wound healing.This study is done to compare the newlinehistopathological changes after physical therapy treatment which will explain newlinethe healing process of ulcer. Hence, the present study was taken up newlineincorporating the above mentioned considerations.