Diabetic boots
Treatment of a diabetic foot affected by neuropathy complicated by a malum perforans plantare or with a history of malum perforans plantare, using an orthosis consisting of a foot segment, a leg segment, a walking sole, and a custom-made plantar support. By malum perforans plantare, we mean necrosis (due to compression) of a dry or oozing nature.
🩺 Diabetologists are specialists in internal medicine normally, and there are only 585 in internal medicine and rheumatology with recognition in functional and professional areas, or the 593 internal medicine and rheumatology doctors who can prescribe diabetic boots..
Diabetic boots are only reimbursed if they have been prescribed, both for the initial supply and for the renewal, by a specialist doctor in surgery, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery, neurosurgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, rheumatology, neurology, neuropsychiatry, paediatrics, or obstetrics and gynaecology..
- 1 year for beneficiaries whose previous device was provided before their 21st birthday
- 3 years for beneficiaries whose previous device was provided after their 21st birthday
✅ 100% reimbursed by Social Security (INAMI).
The boot is prefabricated but the walking sole and insole are made to measure