FORS Resources For Healthcare Providers

The FORS™ Offloading Insole: Affordable, Convenient, Proven Effective!1,4,5

 

 

Providing Your Patients With Quality Offloading Doesn't Need To Be Complicated.

  • >40% pressure reduction. Recent studies prove FORS provides better offloading than the leading competitive product.
  • Comfortable to wear, and studies show high rates of patient compliance and healing.
  • For patients at risk of falling (neurapathy, stability issues), FORS may be safer, more effective, and more feasible than offloading approaches such as TCC, knee-high boots, or wedge shoes.
  • Highly durable, and washable in event of drainage.
  • Sizes to fit standard surgical shoes, therapeutic CAM Boots, and also can be trimmed to fit.

 

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Better Offloading. Better Outcomes.

 

1).  No Edge Effect

  • In a recent peer-reviewed study, NO increased edge pressure was observed with FORS, whereas edge pressure was significantly increased with the market leading product1.It has long been established that shifting pressure to the edges can cause neuropathic ulcers to increase in size.10

 

2).  Lasts Up to 5x Longer

  3). Better Durability and Performance

  • Plugs don't shift or fall out
  • Withstands heavy weight without bottoming out
  • Consistently offloads with minimal change over time.

 

What Other Physicians Are Saying

Educational, Instructional, and Academic Videos

Visit Our YouTube Channel with complete Interviews and additional information.

 

 

WHAT DOCTORS SAY ABOUT FORS™

Physicians discuss experience using FORS (2 min)Importance of offloading for healing DFUs (1 min)

 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS

How to modify FORS for patient offloading (3 min)How to cut and trim FORS to fit different shapes (1 min)

 

 

SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS AND STUDY RESULTS

APWH 2019, FORS research and user experience (5 min)ACPME 2017, Offloading Best Practices (35 min)

 

CLINICAL EVIDENCE & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  1. "Comparison of two pixelated insoles using in-shoe pressure sensors to determine percent offloading: case studies"; Multiple article series, Journal of Wound Care / Wound Central, May 2021
  2. "Who Should Pay For Offloading Footwear To Treat DFUs?", M. Goldberg, Todays Wound Clinic, Jan 2018
  3. "Charcot  Versus Osteomyelitis""(FORS Used For Charcot), H. Penny et al, APWH poster, Oct 2019,
  4. "FORS-15 Clinical Evaluation - Multicenter" poster presentation, H. Penny, J. McGuire et al, A-DFS, Nov 2017,
  5. "FORS-15 Clinical Evaluation, Montefiore Mt. Vernon Hospital", P. Rafat et al, SAWC poster, Nov 2016
  6. "The DFU Dilemma: Is the Total Contact Cast a True “Gold Standard?", H. Penny, Lower Extremity Review (LER), September 2018,
  7. "Expert Opinion, Advances and alternatives in diabetic ulcer offloading", Lower Extremity Review, J McGuire et al, August 2018
  8. "Reexamining The Gold Standard For Offloading Of DFUs"; J. McGuire et al, Podiatry Today, March 2017
  9. "DFU offloading: we know what works, why don’t we do it?", H. Penny; Journal of Wound Care, North American Supplement, Vol 28, #5, May 2019
  10. A Guide To Offloading The Diabetic Foot, N. Martin et al, Podiatry Today (Continuing Education), Vol 18, #9, September 2005
  11. Use of Pressure Offloading Devices in Diabetic Foot Ulcers, Wu et al, Diabetes Care, VOL31, #11, Nov 2008
  12. Why is it so hard to do the right thing in wound care?, Fife C. et al, Wound Rep Reg (2010) 18 154–158

 

The videos, presentations, and posters included on this website have been contributed by leading healthcare practitioners. Bonapeda Enterprises LLC has no financial relationship with any of the practitioners whose names, documents and comments are presented on this website (other than as a supplier).

 

 

 

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*Statement from Dr. James McGuire, DPM, LPT, LPed, FAPWc, Professor Clinical Scholar, Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine, Recorded June, 2021. (https://youtu.be/9rNqjdp28gs)

 

**The FORS Insole is covered by U.S. Patent 10,441,031