I have been very fortunate to have spent nearly 40 years interacting with people who experience and live with wounds. Some individuals have a relatively simple and straight-forward pathway towards healing. Others encounter the exact opposite, enduring wounds which significantly lower their quality of life. Complex,
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Having Donna record her responses to my questions was fantastic. Her knowledge, compassion, insight and capacity to communicate just make her video one that you can watch again and again. Thank you very much Donna for your gracious and precious time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elObnAYAe6o
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The Lindsay Leg Club has now been in operation for over 25 years. This video captures significant moments in this journey of service and rightly pays tribute to Ellie Lindsay, the Founder and Life President of this social model of care. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgR4nZWVZs0
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A discussion between Gary Bain and Lusi Sheehan (The Wound Educator), within the context of Wound Awareness Week 2023, which explores the benefits of collaboration in enhancing clinical education and practice delivery. Welcome to the Woundieverse concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRYu-GireOw
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Every once and while a document comes along which either perfectly updates or summarises practice principles for an aetiology that we encounter in our workplace. For those of us who care for individuals with leg ulcers, this comprehensive 76 page document from EWMA is a
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In this past year it has been inspiring to watch a very gifted and passionate community pharmacist make her way into the Woundieverse and develop an education pathway for other pharmacists, so that wound management can become a structured, evidence-based component of the service they
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Acute and chronic wound infections - what are the distinctions? In 2022 Jenny Hurlow and Phil Bowler wrote a marvellous article which was printed in the Journal of Wound Care on this topic. Their commentary provides differentiation between dermatitis, acute and chronic infection - incorporating a discussion
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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
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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
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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
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