A BIG SUCCESS FOR DERMATUFF & The National Institute of Health Research.
The partial results of the STOPCUTS study funded with a £250,000 grant by the National Institute for Health Research under their Research for Patient Benefit scheme have been announced. The purpose of the Randomised Controlled Trial was to test the research method for...
Our New Norwegian Distributors and Their Story of How Dermatuff Personally Helped Them
We are delighted to welcome our new Norwegian distributors Karianne and Trygve to the Dermatuff team and are very excited with their plans to further develop awareness of our products in Norway. Karianne Viken and...
Interview with Alan Mcleod
Dermatuff are proud to announce that Dr. Alan McLeod has joined the business as an Associate Director. Here is an extract from an interview with Alan... Alan is currently a consultant within health innovation support. He is a successful and highly experienced NHS...
#WorldWellbeingWeek
Following on from #LonelinessAwarenessWeek last week, this week is #WorldWellbeingWeek and the NHS suggests 5 steps to improve mental well-being. 1. Connect - Spend time with the people around you (friends, family, neighbours etc.). If you feel that you don't have...
#LonelinessAwarenessWeek
This week is #LonelinessAwarenessWeek and according to Age UK, over 2 million people aged 75+ live alone in England. Over half of them say they often go over a month without speaking to a family member, friend, or neighbour. There are several helplines...
Wearing protective socks could help avoid skin tears in elderly people
Researchers at The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital say the use of simple, specially developed protective socks could help thousands of older people in the UK who suffer from a debilitating skin condition. The STOPCUTS pilot trial monitored the effects of wearing the...
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween, from Dermatuff! 🎃 Stay safe and enjoy yourselves this Halloween. Remember, there is 20% off Dermatuff Arm and Leg Protectors until midnight tonight (31st October 2018). Use the code OCT20 to receive your discount. We have produced a...
Exeter Innovation for Science and Technology Event
In February 2018, Dermatuff was included in a presentation at the Exeter Innovation for Science and Technology quarterly event. Professor Adrian Harris is the Executive Medical Director at Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. Prof. Harris refers to the...
Trick or treat? It’s a treat from us! Enjoy 20% discount off your whole order throughout October
Enjoy 20% discount off Dermatuff Arm and Leg Protectors for the whole of October! Just use the code OCT20 at the checkout. T&Cs: 20% Discount applies to the retail price, does not include ‘Factory Seconds’ and does not apply to postage & packaging. VAT still...
Factory Seconds Socks (Leg Protectors), £20 per pair!
Occasionally, we will receive our products from our manufacturer and they are not in perfect condition. We call these ‘factory seconds’. For these particular socks, there is damage to the colour of the material. These socks have lighter coloured patches (brown in...
Daily Mail Article – 25th October 2016
Daily Mail reveal the 5 best medical socks to get your feet through thick and thin... Back in October 2016, the Daily Mail wrote an article about the 5 best medical socks and Dermatuff featured on that list. "Fragile skin (which is at greater risk of tears and ulcers)...
Making the checkout process easier for you
We have listened to your feedback and made some changes to our checkout form to ensure you have a seamless checkout experience with us. It was a requirement to enter your email address before you could complete the checkout process. However, following valuable...
Factory Second Leg Protectors, Half Price!
Occasionally, we receive our products from the manufacturer with minor faults which means we cannot sell them as new. Rather than them go to waste, we have decided to sell them as factory seconds at a reduced price for our customers.This may be useful if you have not...
*Graphic image within* Major Skin Tear caused by 14-month-old girl falling head first against her Nanny’s leg
Joanne Dudley Drake who lives in Kent sent us this picture of her Mum’s skin tear after her 14-month-old daughter tripped and fell head first on to her leg. Joanne’s Mum has very thin skin. She is only in her 60s but has been on steroids for several years. Thin skin...
Costly for the NHS but not unusual
Eileen Cole, who kindly published a testimonial for us recently had suffered multiple skin tears which, through no fault of hers were very costly for the NHS. The Cost per Treatment For example one skin tear took 8 weeks to heal, there were 2 dressings a week by the...
Our Protective Sleeves can also be called Arm Protectors
When we first started manufacturing our Thin Skin Protection Socks we soon recognised from the number of requests that we were getting that there was also a strong demand for Thin Skin Arm Protectors or Protection for Arms. This is because the skin of the forearms...
Skin Tear Protection Evaluation
The Dermatuff Skin Tear Protection Socks and Sleeves evaluation was conducted between August 2013 and June 2014 in two centres with two Study Coordinators for a period of six months. 37 elderly people, all vulnerable to skin tears initially participated. The Skin Tear...
Benefits Of Dermatuff Socks From A Customer
I am an otherwise healthy man now 70 and still very much enjoy an active life. However my ability to keep this up has become very limited because I suffer from very vulnerable thin skin. What happens is that I only have to knock my leg or particularly my shin lightly...
Shinpads – Dermatuff – Skin Protection Socks and Sleeves
A few weeks ago a customer told us that he had been advised by his GP Practice Nurse to try wearing footballers’ shinpads to protect him from the frequent skin tears that he was experiencing on his legs. On looking around on the Internet for a source for shinpads I’m...
Eliminate Skin Tears in Care Homes
The incidence of skin tears in Care Homes is very high. No statistics are published but we have calculated from academic research that there is an average of 1.58 skin tears per annum amongst people of 70 years old and more. We also know from our customers experiences...
Research project nearing completion *update, report now published.
Research Project Updated 19th November 2014 This trial started on 8 July 2013 and was completed in July 2015. Background Information Roy Powell based at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital received approval for an application for a £250,000 award from the National...
CASE STUDY: A compelling story of how Dermatuff socks have helped save the legs of one man who was suffering severe health problems.
The patient, in his mid-60’s, was one of the first people to answer the call for volunteers to try out the innovative Dermatuff socks, which are aimed at preventing skin tears by protecting the skin. When nurse Beryl Pym went to the man’s home to measure him for the...
Daily Mail Article 30th November 2013
"Retired chocolate-maker Peter Thornton has launched a range of garments to protect fragile skin – made from the same material as stab-proof vests. The 80-year-old hopes his Dermatuff socks, gloves and sleeves will help those older Britons who suffer skin tears....
Daily Mail article 30th Sep 2014
"Skin also thins as we age, making it more prone to injury. The socks are being trialled at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital to prevent lacerations of the lower legs. According to the researchers, at least three million older people may suffer these injuries. The...
A compelling story of how Dermatuff socks have helped save the legs of one man who was suffering severe health problems.
The patient, in his mid-60’s, was one of the first people to answer the call for volunteers to try out the innovative socks, which are aimed at preventing skin tears by protecting the skin. When nurse Beryl Pym went to the man’s home to measure him for the socks, she...
SEPTEMBER: Are Dermatuff fragile Skin protectors available on the NHS through prescription?
DERMATUff Thin Skin Protection Socks & Sleeves are NOT available for prescription charge / FP10 only. How do we know that they really work? What further proof are we adding? Doctors and Nurses call us quite frequently about sufferers from thin fragile skin / skin...
What Is happening to add further proof that DERMATUff really works?
We and sufferers from these frequent skin-tears are extremely fortunate that the Research Department at the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital have independently made a successful grant application to the National Institute for Health Research for the operation of this...
How do we know that DERMATUff really works?
The understanding of the success of our products is based on their track record, the many personal experiences reported to us and also the trials and evaluations that we have conducted ourselves. Our privately managed trials showed a 97% reduction in skin tears The...
Download an Order Form & Size Chart
We have added download links for these items. Download and complete manually and send to us by post with your cheque. Thin-skin_protection Stockings- Sizes & order form_14_05_14 (docx) Thin-skin_protection Stockings- Sizes & order form_14_05_14 (rtf)...
Latest Newsletter
Dear Customer We thought that you might be interested to hear what has been going on at Dermatuff: Manufacturing The spinning of our very special and unique yarn is still being done by our excellent spinners in Italy, however the manufacturing of the socks themselves...
Are our Socks too hot in hot weather?
In the United Kingdom we thought that we had enjoyed our best summer for many years in 2013 followed by probably our worst winter. Remarkably now 2014 has also been a beautiful summer. Each year, every day dawned brightly with a beautiful blue sky and bright sunshine,...
What Happened the Very Day I Didn’t Wear the Protective Sleeves. By Peter Thornton
It was another beautiful day at the Turkish holiday resort of Bitez, where myself and my family were spending our holiday. My wife and children had decided to go out to a local market, whereas I made the choice not to go with them and instead spend a lazy day on the...
Worried about how the Skin Tear Protection Socks and Sleeves look and feel?
You may be worried about how the products look and feel and perhaps concerned about making a final commitment to buy without seeing them. In this case you can always order a pair and under our terms and conditions, if you are not happy, return them for a full refund....
Research Grant Approved
This trial is now under way Background Information Roy Powell based at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital received approval for an application for a £250,000 award from the National Institute for Health Research under its Research for Patient Benefit programme that...
Dermatuff Products now on NHS Supply Chain
At last our products are now available to all clinicians in the UK on the NHS Supply Chain, Visit NHS Supply Chain. http://www.supplychain.nhs.uk/ Search on Dermatuff
Potential Reduction in NHS Costs that Would be Associated with Preventing Skin Tears through Using Dermatuff Skin Tear Protection Socks
The following appraisal has been carried out by Dr. Colin W. Pritchard BA, BPhil, MA, MSc, PhD, HonMFPH, (Research Design Service South-West). Colin wishes us to say that this is ‘quick and dirty’ and that once he has more accurate data from the RfPB Pilot Study that...
DERMATUff VISION
When I was a boy the life expectancy for men was 60 and for women it was 65. These days it is 78 for men and 82 for women. It is a wonderful thing that due to many factors such as much better medical provision, a healthier lifestyle, a better quality of life and...
DERMATUff’s for Hiking
Living close to Dartmoor and having a young family who love walking and the outdoors I quite often find myself up there at the weekends being led along by my 15-year-old daughter who usually knows where she is going. On this last occasion when we were looking for some...
DERMATUff for comfort…
The socks are very comfortable whatever the weather. I have worn them myself every day for the last five years and have had no problem with overheating or irritation. Last summer on holiday in Turkey where the temperatures reached 42deg C I wore them every day and had...