Ex-Nike designer builds a boot that could prevent 80,000 amputations a year

Photo: Foot Defender. Article by Mark Wilson. Fast Company – May 26, 2022.

Our own government calls it an “epidemic of amputations.” Of 200,000 people in the U.S. who have amputations each year, 130,000 are specifically from complications with diabetes. Ulcers will form on the bottom of people’s feet where, under the weight of their own bodies, these wounds refuse to heal. […]

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