Leg Club Research Articles

Consistency of wound care in Leg Clubs.

Mr B had lost his wife of 65 years and was distraught, but he tried to move on with life. However, while playing football he injured his leg, which then developed into a venous ulcer that was to last for many years. Unfortunately, his care was inconsistent, and the wound was not progressing. He found the local Leg Club and decided to self-refer. He not only went on to achieve wound closure rapidly, but he found a social atmosphere in the club, made friends and learned how to prevent the wound from recurring. He felt that consistency of care was the reason for the rapid progress.

NHS nurses with less time can rely on support from Leg Clubs.

NHS nurses with less time can rely on support from Leg Clubs.

The link between underactive thyroid and leg oedema.

There is an established link between hypothyroidism and leg oedema. This article presents a case study of a female known to have an underactive thyroid gland who developed symptoms and was referred to a local Lindsay Leg Club.

Lindsay Leg Clubs and social prescribing: Leg Clubs at the Cardiff Business School Breakfast Briefing.

Lindsay Leg Clubs and social prescribing: Leg Clubs at the Cardiff Business School Breakfast Briefing.

The Lindsay Leg Club® Well Leg Regime: an evidence review.

This article aims to review the scarce available evidence on the effectiveness of the Well Leg Programme within the Lindsay Leg Clubs in terms of preventing wound recurrence and improving members' wellbeing. It collates the numerical data on members' wounds and healing rates from the Lindsay Leg Club relational database and members' narratives from a qualitative service evaluation of the Lindsay Leg Clubs. Findings of the review suggest that remaining within the Well Leg regime for several months (or longer) after having had a healed ulcer seems to provide further opportunity to prevent recurrence, and may also provide non-clinical benefits, such as improved wellbeing. Based on the review of available published evidence into the effectiveness of the Well Leg regime, we conclude that there is scope for further studies, including a comparison with other existing treatment and prevention protocols.

Social prescribing and the Lindsay Leg Club.

Social prescribing and the Lindsay Leg Club.

Field, place or space? A carnal ethnography of a therapeutic space-construct

PurposeIn advancing the academic discourse around the theory of field, place and space in ethnographic research, this paper proposes a carnal sociological reading of the meaning and form of the Lindsay Leg Clubs – third-sector community leg care centres for older adults with leg problems – as a therapeutic space-construct.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on non-formulaic, polymorphic ethnographic research in the UK Lindsay Leg Clubs conducted through multiple on-site and extramural engagements with the Leg Club community between 2019 and 2023 and an interview with the Leg Club founder and president, Professor Ellie Lindsay OBE. Wacquant's (2015) reflexive, enactive ethnographic approach is applied to develop an intellectual and carnal know-how of Leg Clubs as therapeutic space-constructs.FindingsThe researcher's “flesh and blood” experience of the Leg Clubs reveals the importance of cognitive and embodied appreciation of sounds, smells, sights, movements, the structures of wound stigma, centre-stage physical bodies of members and the volunteers, the material arrangement of the place and the researcher's own visceral and intellectual, biographical relation to the fieldwork to understand the therapeutic form and meaning of Leg Club spaces.Originality/valueApplying the carnal sociology approach to reveal the therapeutic form and meaning of the Leg Club spaces makes concrete the abstract distinctions between field, place and space in ethnographic research, hence advancing the discourse around the theory of field in ethnography. A carnal sociological reading of the Leg Club spaces has implications for an embodied understanding of broader community care spaces.

Moving forward: a general overview within the Leg Club® community

British Journal of Community NursingVol. 28, No. Sup3 Society UpdateMoving forward: a general overview within the Leg Club® communityEllie LindsayEllie LindsayE-mail Address: [email protected]Honorary Professor, The College of Phlebology, London; Independent Specialist Practitioner; Visiting Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Visiting Senior Fellow, University of Suffolk, UK; Associate Lecturer CRICP, Thames Valley University, London, UKSearch for more papers by this authorEllie LindsayPublished Online:21 Feb 2023https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2023.28.Sup3.S36AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 2 March 2023Volume 28Issue Sup3ISSN (print): 1462-4753ISSN (online): 2052-2215 Metrics History Published online 21 February 2023 Published in print 2 March 2023 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

Dermatitis vs infection: how can clinical care in a Lindsay Leg Club help?

British Journal of Community NursingVol. 27, No. Sup12 Society UpdateDermatitis vs infection: how can clinical care in a Lindsay Leg Club help?Sylvie HamptonSylvie HamptonE-mail Address: [email protected]Tissue Viability Consultant Nurse; Director of Wound Care Consultancy LtdSearch for more papers by this authorSylvie HamptonPublished Online:15 Dec 2022https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2022.27.Sup12.S40AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article References Batra V, Baras A. Bilateral cellulitis. BMJ Case Rep. 2015;2015:bcr2015211117. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2015-211117 Crossref, Medline, Google ScholarHirschmann JV, Raugi GJ. Lower limb cellulitis and its mimics: part II. Conditions that simulate lower limb cellulitis. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2012;67(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2012.03.023 Crossref, Google ScholarKeller EC, Tomecki KJ, Alraies MC. Distinguishing cellulitis from its mimics. Cleve Clin J Med. 2012;79(8):547-552. https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.11121 Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 1 December 2022Volume 27Issue Sup12ISSN (print): 1462-4753ISSN (online): 2052-2215 Metrics History Published online 15 December 2022 Published in print 1 December 2022 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

The international Leg Club® community

The international Leg Club^® community

Members’ experiences of Lindsay Leg Clubs®: A thematic metasynthesis of published narratives in qualitative research

Members’ experiences of Lindsay Leg Clubs®: A thematic metasynthesis of published narratives in qualitative research

Is there a role for Leg Clubs® in the new Integrated Care System?

Is there a role for Leg Clubs® in the new Integrated Care System?

Elimination of government restrictions and its impact within Leg Clubs®.

Elimination of government restrictions and its impact within Leg Clubs®.

The importance of moist wound healing: how can the Leg Club facilitate education for those with a leg problem.

The importance of moist wound healing: how can the Leg Club facilitate education for those with a leg problem.

Unusual wounds that are found in Leg Clubs®: pyoderma gangrenosum

Unusual wounds that are found in Leg Clubs^®: pyoderma gangrenosum

Leg Club 2021: what's been happening?

Leg Club 2021: what's been happening?

Realist evaluation of social outcomes in community care: the application of affordance theory to the Lindsay Leg Clubs

ABSTRACT This study uses a scientific realist methodology to explain how social outcomes of community care interventions are produced, sustained and contextually dependent. We evaluate an organization dedicated to wound care and leg health known as the Lindsay Leg Club network, so far studied mostly from a phenomenological perspective, to demonstrate the generative role of places where Leg Clubs are located, with objects in their environment, and people who organize and run Leg Clubs, with their agency and intentionality. We theorize the explanatory role of these contextual features with the concept of affordances. Our approach shows that the phenomenological findings from community care evaluation are not unequivocal. Instead, researchers should recognize the nuanced nature of causality in social programmes, which requires a consideration of the links between community care interventions, how people respond to them and the conditions under which these responses are enacted.

A journey of discovery in the Lindsay Leg Clubs.

A journey of discovery in the Lindsay Leg Clubs.

A positive case in the Lindsay Leg Club.

A positive case in the Lindsay Leg Club.

Actinic keratosis and Bowen's disease: case of a Leg Club member.

Actinic keratosis and Bowen's disease: case of a Leg Club member.