[AMP-L] Ex-Nike Designer Builds Boot That Could Prevent 80, 000 Amputations

[Wayne Renardson]

via Fast Company:

When a career podiatrist teamed up with a former designer from Nike, 
they created a fashionable medical product that´s clinically proven to  
save more limbs from diabetic ulcers. 

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. Amputation comes next, after which point a 
person with diabetes has the same five-year mortality rate as someone  
with cancer.

The rest of the story, with photos & illustrations, here:

https://tinyurl.com/2eznu4zj

Wayne R.