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Welcome to the Leg Ulcers Website
Welcome. The purpose of this website is to provide you with up to date
information about leg ulcers - How we can CURE most leg
ulcers nowadays - and we explain both treatment and prevention.
Why?
Because:
- About 120,000 people are suffering
from leg ulcers today in the UK
- About 500,000 people get recurrent leg
ulcers in the UK
- Approximately half of the people could
be permanently cured if they saw a specialist vascular surgeon and had
specialist surgery
- A very large number of people are
slowly developing leg ulcers - and most never get the advice they need
to prevent the ulcers developing
Most people with leg ulcers, or who are at risk of getting leg ulcers,
never see a specialist vascular surgeon and so never get a chance to be
cured.
Those with leg ulcers get into the
routine of recurrent dressings and bandages - this temporarily heals the
ulcer which then breaks down again and again and again. Those at risk of
leg ulcers get sent away with skin creams or pressure stockings, allowing
the skin to worsen and the ulcer to develop.
The purpose of this site is:
- to inform patients with leg ulcers
what can be done for them
- to inform people at risk of ulceration
what they should do
- to give people an idea of who is
suitable for treatment and what results that they should expect
Our hope in developing this site is that
many people who have given up hope of getting rid of the leg ulcers will
be able to find a cure - and that people who are at risk of developing leg
ulcers realise the fact and seek specialist help before they develop their
leg ulcers.
This site is written by:
The Specialist Vascular Consultants at
The Whiteley Clinic.
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