Diabetic Foot Ulcer Boot
Foot Defender+ with Sensoria® Core and Smart Watch App
Diabetes And Foot Complications
Every 20 seconds, a limb is lost due to diabetes. Every 1.2 seconds there is a new diabetic foot ulcer. There is no amputation without ulceration.
After an amputation, there is a 50% chance that the other limb will be amputated within two years. Patient life expectancy is less than five years. Same as cancer.
Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFUs) are responsible for more hospitalizations than any other complication of diabetes. At least $40 billion dollars in direct costs annually worldwide. About $17.5B in the U.S. alone.
Our Diabetic boot is compliant with the most recent IWGDF guidelines.
Subjects with diabetic foot ulcerations wear their offloading devices just 28% of their daily steps.
However… There is strong evidence that uncomplicated plantar ulcers can be healed in 8 to 12 weeks and yet current “standard of care” in US clinical trials have a 76% treatment failure rate at 12 weeks.
This is why we built Defender+ Powered by Sensoria!
A Smarter Solution
The world’s first smart diabetic footwear that monitors patient’s rehabilitation compliance to the clinician’s prescribed stabilization and mechanical offloading protocol.
Easy to use app provides positive reinforcement and constructive feedback to the patient in near real-time to improve outcomes. Most patients suffer from neuropathy and do not feel pain!
Clinical dashboard provides graphical representation of activity and adherence data. It also tracks the time the clinician spends on each patient per month to facilitate RPM reimbursement.
Foot Defender+ Powered By Sensoria®
Created by a leading podiatrist and an industry-leading former Nike shoe designer to better protect foot wounds in a form factor patients will actually want to wear.
Easy-to-use and wear cool shoe-like design.
Risk-free purchase and lifetime warranty for manufacturer's defects.
Alleviates average contact pressure across the foot by up to 50% as compared to other protective boots on the market.
Low profile abrasion resistant compression molded outsole.
Used for BOTH stabilization and offloading.
Coaching
The Sensoria Diabetic Foot Ulcer Boot App coaches patients on their rehab journey.
Tracks activities like steps, minutes active, minutes resting and when and for how long the boot is taken off.
The app communicates directly with the physician’s cloud system providing them real-time updates on the patient on a color coded dashboard.
Clinical Dashboard
The Sensoria® Dashboard provides valuable data to help guide and evolve personalized treatment plans. It also calculates the amount of time the physician is monitoring the patient. The system may qualify a practice to be reimbursed for remote patient monitoring.
Selected clinicians may now be able to bill Medicare for these services.
Frequently Asked Questions
1) Can the boot be removed by the patient? Initially, yes, the patient can remove the boot; however, this should ONLY be done while sleeping or taking a shower. If the patient is not adherent to these guidelines, the physician may decide to intervene and make the boot irremovable.
2) How much does the boot weigh? The boot is lightweight and the weight varies by size.
3) What sizes are available? Foot Defender is available in small (Women’s 5-7, Men’s 7-9), medium (Women’s 7.5-9.5, Men’s 9.5-11.5), and large (Women’s 10.-13, Men’s 12-14).
4) Does Medicare cover the boot? Yes, it may be covered ask your clinician!
5) How do I purchase the Diabetic Foot Ulcer Boot? You can contact us at info@Sensoriahealth.com.
6) Is monthly service included in the boot? The boot and monthly service are sold separately. Diabetic foot ulcers healing time may vary, so you pay as you go, that way you don’t pay for something that you don’t need.
7) Does Medicare cover the monthly service? Yes, it may by using the remote patient monitoring CPT codes, 99453. 99454, 99457 and 99458 the monthly service fees may be covered and the clinician may be reimbursed for reviewing patient data. Contact us to learn more!
Partners
Dr. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery, and USC Keck School of Medicine. With a tradition dating back to 1885, they are the oldest school of medicine in Southern California dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals and society by promoting health, preventing, and curing disease, advancing biomedical research, and educating tomorrow’s physicians and scientists.
Defender+ combines the Foot Defender boot with Sensoria’s Core, patient mobile app and a clinician remote monitoring dashboard. The system increases patient healing chances by monitoring adherence and offloading compliance in line with the rehabilitation protocol. Defender applies rigorous engineering and beautiful design to protect feet and defend what matters: people’s quality of life.
Dr. Bijan Najafi, Professor of Surgery, and Baylor College of Medicine. They are a health sciences university that creates knowledge and applies science and discoveries to further education, healthcare, and community service locally and globally. Their vision is improving health through science, scholarship, and innovation.