The Circulator Boot is a revolutionary, non-surgical method of saving feet and legs from amputation and healing wounds. It was designed to improve and maintain quality of life and independence.
A leg with poor arterial blood flow may be likened to a dirty sponge that is half wet. Squeezing such a sponge disseminates the water throughout the sponge. Soaking and wringing the water repeatedly from the sponge may help clean it.
In like fashion, the heart monitor of the Circulator Boot is timed to allow each arterial pulse wave to enter the leg as best it can (to partially wet the leg "sponge"). Boot compressions provide a driving force to push blood into the leg and foot. At the same time, venous blood and excess fluid is removed from the leg.
Patients with a pulse rate of 80 beats per minute might receive 4800 such compressions an hour. Patients with severe leg disease might receive 100 such treatments or close to half a million compressions! Breakdown of clot, opening of blocked vessels and the formation of new small vessels all help restore blood flow.
The Circulator Boot has successfully treated poor circulation non-surgically in the feet and legs with a dramatic increase in blood flow. In a 15-year national study involving 1,035 patients and 2, 177 treatments, 8 out of 10 patients showed healing or improvements in their diabetic wounds and circulatory problems in the lower extremities with the use of the Circulator Boot.
Poor arterial flow in the leg associated with:
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Ischemic ulcers
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Rest pain or claudication (pain with walking)
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Threatened gangrene
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Insufficient blood supply at an amputation site
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Persisting ischemia after embolectomy or bypass surgery
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Pre- and post-arterial reconstruction to improve runoff
Diabetes complicated by the above or other conditions possibly related to arterial insufficiency:
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Nocturnal leg cramps
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Necrobiosis diabeticorum
Venous diseases (once risk of emboli minimized):
Lymphedema:
