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Jodhpur Technique. Depiction of success of the technique in a non-healing foot ulcer of a patient with diabetes with diabetic foot (diabetes controlled with HbA1C < 6.5 X one year). (A) Baseline multiple ulcers over the foot involving the heel and medial malleolus (pressure sites). The lesions are chronic non-healing ulcers (CNHUs) as they failed to heal despite multiple treatment sessions using collagen dressings, platelet-rich fibrin matrix (PRFM), hyperbaric oxygen as well as one flap transplant that necrosed within 4 weeks; and (B) Complete healing of ulcers can be appreciated after 3 months of 2 sessions of JT performed 1 month apart. Contributed by D Kachhawa, MD, and S Sonthalia, MD, DNB, MNAMS