Post Total Contact Casting Healing Pattern in Leprotic Chronic Plantar Foot Ulcer

Intoduction: Neuropathic plantar ulceration is one of the serious handicap to the patient with anaesthetic feet in active life. The only way to heal a plantar ulcer is to provide rest it. If the patient walks on the ulcer,it spreads and osteomyelitis ensues; the scarring and distortion make further inevitable ulceration until walking finally becomes impossible.Neuropathic trophic plantar ulceration can be seen in variety of conditions involving insensitivity of the foot including diabetes, leprosy, hereditary neuropathy, tabes dorsalis, herniated nucleus pulposus , treated for months and years by various forms of local applications and dressings requiring high cost , time and money. To receive this treatment patients have to walk from their homes on bandaged feet, continuing Abstract