Varicose Veins
Dressings, antibiotics, and wound care treat the surface. But if the artery supplying your foot is blocked, no dressing in the world will close that wound permanently. Flowcare identifies the blockage — and opens it. Combined with expert wound care, your foot can heal. The window to save it starts today.
Most patients arrive at Flowcare having dressed their wound for weeks or months with nothing improving. There is a reason. It's not the dressing. It's not the antibiotic. It's the blood supply.
When diabetes is uncontrolled for years, it damages two systems simultaneously:
1Nerves (Neuropathy). You stop feeling pain in your feet. A small cut goes unnoticed. A blister is ignored. You don't feel the damage accumulating.
2Arteries (PAD). High blood sugar thickens and narrows the arteries in your legs and feet. Blood flow reduces. The foot is literally starving for oxygen and nutrients.
Result: A wound forms — often unnoticed. The immune cells that fight infection cannot reach it. The nutrients that build new tissue cannot reach it. Every dressing change buys time — but if the blocked artery isn't treated, the wound will never truly heal.
8 quick questions. Get your risk tier — RED, AMBER, BLUE, or GREEN — and the recommended next action. Your answers stay private. Designed by Dr. Bansal based on 500+ diabetic foot cases.
Diabetic foot is not one condition. It is the result of two simultaneous failures in the diabetic body — and treating only one half explains why so many wounds never close.
Failure 1Neuropathy. High blood sugar damages peripheral nerves — starting in the feet. You lose the ability to feel pain, temperature, and pressure. A pebble in your shoe can cause a pressure ulcer you cannot feel. A blister becomes an open wound before you realise.
Failure 2Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). High blood sugar also damages and narrows the arteries in the legs and feet. Blood flow to the foot decreases. Immune function reduces. Healing capacity collapses.
The combination is what makes diabetic foot so dangerous — you cannot feel the wound forming, AND the wound cannot heal because blood isn't reaching it. This is why a Grade-1 wound can quietly become Grade-4 gangrene in 6 weeks.
"We see patients who walked in with a 'small cut' that had been open for months. Their blood sugar was high. Their pain signal was gone. By the time the wound's severity registered to anyone, the artery had been blocked for years." — Dr. Bansal
Vascular surgeons worldwide use the Wagner classification to grade diabetic foot. Knowing your grade tells you how urgently to act — and whether angioplasty is likely indicated. Click any grade to see the action plan.
From a "small cut" to a limb-threatening emergency in six weeks. The progression is consistent. The intervention window is finite. Most patients arrive at Week 4 having dressed it themselves through Weeks 1–3.
Neuropathy means you can't trust your pain signal. These 5 checks take 10 seconds and can prevent amputation. Tap each one as you do it — and if you tick "yes" to any of them, seek assessment today.
Two parallel pathways of damage — one silent, one stealthy. Understanding both explains why standard wound care alone keeps failing for diabetic patients.
Most wound care clinics can dress a wound. Most vascular centres can open an artery. Flowcare does both — in one visit. This is the four-phase pathway every diabetic foot patient is taken through.
Peripheral angioplasty opens the blocked artery in your leg that is starving your foot wound of oxygen and nutrients. Without this step, no dressing achieves permanent healing.
Most were diabetic patients. Most were preventable. This is the math the Indian healthcare system rarely talks about — and the math that changes when blood flow is assessed before infection takes over.
India performs more diabetic limb amputations than almost any other country in the world. Most patients who lose a limb had a non-healing wound that was treated with dressings only — without ever assessing or treating the blocked artery causing it.
The standard of care in most Indian diabetic foot cases: dressings, antibiotics, blood sugar control — with no vascular assessment. No Doppler. No angioplasty. The artery stays blocked. The wound stays open. Infection spreads. Amputation follows.
The most common story at Flowcare: a son or daughter brings their elderly parent in — because the parent has been saying "it's nothing, it doesn't hurt" for weeks. Neuropathy means they genuinely cannot feel the wound. It genuinely doesn't hurt. But no pain does not mean no danger.
No hidden charges. No "ballpark figures" that surprise you later. Three care tiers — pick yours based on Wagner grade and whether PAD is confirmed.
18+ years and over 10,000 personally-performed pin-hole vascular procedures. 500+ peripheral angioplasties — many specifically for diabetic foot patients at Wagner Grades 2-4. The diabetic foot patients other surgeons sent away often end up in his clinic.
We pulled the top 18 questions from common patient concerns. If yours isn't here, use the contact form below — Dr. Bansal reviews complex cases.
शुगर के मरीज़ों के लिए — हिंदी में ज़रूरी जानकारी। जब पैर में घाव हो, तो देर मत कीजिए। हमारी टीम हिंदी में पूरी मदद करती है।
