“I feel much more active and able to lead a normal life” – Shares Mrs. Jennifer, 58 years old who has undergone Keller’s Gap Arthroplasty at the Chennai Diabetic Foot Care Centre. “Dr Aravind and team ensured that I never felt anxious and made me go through the entire treatment with a strong mind” – she adds further with a wide smile.
“We recommend Keller’s Gap Arthroplasty when we understand that the client has tried all the conservative treatments and still doesn’t find solace. This has worked in most of the cases and we find improvement in quality of life in a very short time” – quotes Dr Aravind from Chennai Diabetic Foot Centre.
While speaking of the recovery time, Dr Aravind further quotes that – “Along with the conventional procedure of Keller’s gap arthroplasty KGA, we at Chennai Diabetic Foot Centre have a unique post care that reduces the recovery time. Our post care includes a lifestyle, regular wound dressing and diet customization, unique modifications in the regular prescription as per the client’s profile. We decide on a case-to-case basis and it is usually a collective effort from our expert panel for each individual”.
Why is Keller’s Gap Arthroplasty (KGA) is needed?
Keller’s Gap Arthroplasty is a common and one of the most successful treatments for long standing non healing trophic ulcer over great toe commonly seen in diabetic patients. If you are diabetic and aged over 55 years and having uninfected ulcer over the plantar aspect of great toe which can’t be cured by conservative management then your surgeon physician would probably go for a KGA Keller’s gap arthroplasty to relieve
For younger population, other alternatives may be considered, like Total contact cast, and wearing a customized pressure regulating footwear.
“Keller’s gap arthroplasty is chosen wherein we strongly believe conservative treatments cannot be supported by self-healing capacity of the client” – Dr Aravind adds.
Keller’s Gap Arthroplasty is chosen wherein wound dressing, Total contact cast and foot wear modifications, pain medications, lifestyle changes and tailored footwear recommendations aren’t effective or the medical beneficiary has developed resistance towards the same.
Keller’s Gap Arthroplasty at CDFC
“We have a unique post care formulated as per the individual conditions of the client. We offer a holistic recovery program which improves the quality of life of the medical beneficiaries across all dimensions” – explains Dr Aravind.
It is a simple one-day procedure and the medical beneficiary client can go home the same day. After that, the medical beneficiary client is automatically put into our post-care program and we ensure compliance and fast recovery.
We have a wide range of treatment options and we give preference to conservative treatments and improve quality of life.
“Mrs. Jennifer had a Keller’s Gap Arthroplasty done with us and has completed her follow up regimen as well. Currently she does a maintenance medi-pedi cure once in a month and is having a pain free walk” – concludes Dr Aravind.
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