METHODS article
Front. Endocrinol.
Sec. Clinical Diabetes
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2025.1583647
This article is part of the Research TopicThe Need for an Integrative Approach in Type 1 Diabetes ManagementView all 3 articles
Wet healing and Chinese medicine cupping can be used to form collateral circulation in diabetic foot artery occlusion: a case report
Provisionally accepted
- 1China Three Gorges University, Hubei, China
- 2Yichang Central People’s Hospital，Neurosurgery, Yichang, China
- 3People's Hospital of Zhijiang City, Yichang, Hebei Province, China
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This report describes a diabetic patient with a left little toe ulcer who was treated with Wet healing combined with traditional Chinese cupping . This approach successfully improved local blood circulation and facilitated wound healing. This treatment modality provides a new perspective for the comprehensive management of diabetic foot ulcers.
Keywords: Diabetic foot ulcer 1, Traditional Chinese cupping 2, Wet healing 3, Local blood circulation 4, Wound healing 5
Received: 26 Feb 2025; Accepted: 27 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wu, Peng, Tian, Hu, Wu, Zhang and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Chunlei Tian, China Three Gorges University, Hubei, China
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