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Leg Club animated

I am very privileged to be a Patron of the Lindsay Leg Club. So what is a Leg Club? Who is it for? What does a Leg Club actually do? How is it run? What are the benefits of engaging in a Leg Club? Answers

Is there a link between diabetes and cognitive decline

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases conducts an excellent blog called the "Diabetes Discoveries and Practice Blog".  In July 2021, the Blog posted an excellent interview style article with Dr Jose Luschinger, where he discusses the impacts of diabetes on cognition. He states

What’s it like living with lymphoedema

Lymphoedema has a number of reasons why it can exist. The impact of living with a life-long and very visible health problem is huge. So what's living with this condition really like? The Lindsay Leg Club Foundation has provided a podcast on this very issue and question. Here is

Bananas and wound healing

There are two ways of looking at how bananas can positively impact on wound healing - the nutrition pathway and the topical one. Lets look at the nutritional composition of bananas: the inner pulp and the peel can both be eaten. The peel is prepared for

Identifying local wound infection

Wounds UK recently published an article containing case studies where the Therapeutic Index for Local Infection was used in clinical practice. This is now a validated tool which I am happy to use in my own practice. https://www.wounds-uk.com/journals/issue/657/article-details/tili-score-new-diagnostic-tool-identifying-wound-infection    

Congratulations Ellie Lindsay

Our dear friend and mentor, Ellie Lindsay, has just been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Union of Wound Healing Societies for her outstanding accomplishments relating to the founding and on-going function of the Lindsay Leg Club Foundation. The Leg Club model has

Performing a skin assessment

Wounds UK recently released a Best Practice Statement on "addressing skin tone bias in wound care". The document contains many useful tips, of which one Table presents

Australia’s most prescribed drugs in 2021

NPS MedicineWise has just published the most prescribed drugs for 2021. The most common drugs prescribed were from the statin group - being Rosuvastatin (#1) and Atorvastatin (#2). Medication to treat oesophageal reflux disease came in at 3rd and 4th place - Pantoprazole and Esomeprazole. It is

The role of wound dressings

Cate Bain and the Lindsay Leg Club Foundation share a podcast which provides an overview on the role and purpose of wound dressings.   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/understanding-the-role-and-function-of-wound-dressings/id1574884472?i=1000536634900