SILTAPE SILICONE TAPE AN INNOVATIVE OPTION FOR RELIEVING FRICTION AND PRESSURE

摘要

Over the past two years, a soft silicone adherent tape (Siltape) has been provided to patients within a private domiciliary podiatry practice in Kent to provide protection from friction and pressure on foot deformities such as hammer and mallet toes. Patients appreciate that Siltape is thin and flexible, so can be easily accommodated in footwear, and is easy to apply and remove. Mrs S is 72 years old and has osteoarthritis, hypertension and high cholesterol. She takes statins, atenolol, felodipine and Vitamin D. She is retired and as physically active as her painful arthritis allows. In 2007 Mrs S underwent left foot bunion surgery, which also incorporated surgery to resolve her left 5th toe deformity. Since surgery, the left 5th toe remains dorsally displaced and consequently rubs against footwear, causing pain and callus. Mrs S is reluctant to consider further surgery at this stage.