Changing Perspectives: Offloading a Patient With a Diabetic Foot Ulcer as Opposed to Offloading a Diabetic Foot Ulcer.

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) represent a tremendous burden to health care systems. Offloading is one of the key tenants to healing DFU and knee-high irremovable offloading devices are considered the gold standard for offloading DFU. However, the gold standard is rarely utilized in clinical practice.