Diabetes mellitus (DM) is considered a chronic disease that affects about 3% of the world's population and is in ninth position among the diseases that shorten the years of life in a healthy way. DM generates repercussions on the body's systems, causing comorbidities, such as diabetic foot disease, considered one of the most serious complications of DM, causing effects in various aspects of the patient's life. Wounds in diabetic feet resulting from changes in gait causing falls, tissue injuries, hospitalizations, and amputations, compromising functionality and quality of life. Thus, it becomes a model of biopsychosocial care, based on the concepts examined in the International Classification of Functioning.

Assess the mobility of patients with diabetic foot treated at the outpatient clinic for technological innovations in human rehabilitation (INOVAFISIO-UFC), investigating the main limitations and the degree of difficulty encountered in locomotion and/or movement of patients with diabetic foot.

This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. Participants of both sexes, over 18 years of age, diagnosed with type 2 DM with wounds on diabetic feet were included. People with intellectual disabilities that compromised the application of questionnaires, infected wounds and/or with an area greater than 15cm² were excluded. Data was collected between 2021 and 2022, at the INOVAFISIO outpatient clinic in Fortaleza - CE. The participants signed the Informed Consent Term. The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule questionnaire (WHODAS 2.0-36 items) was applied to assess functionality in the last 30 days. In this study, the mobility domain was explored with 5 questions about locomotion with answers included in a scon a scale of 5 degrees of difficulty (none, mild, moderate, severe, treme or unable). Data analysis was descriptive, and results expresser sed as mean and standard deviation. The software used was Stata version 17.

The sample consisted of 36 participants, divided equally between men and women, most of whom were married (55.56%) with a mean age of 55.58+15.25. When asked if they had difficulties standing for long periods, 83.33% reported some degree of difficulty, 27.78% (extreme or unable), 66.67% had difficulty getting up from a sitting position (22.22% moderate); 63.89% with difficulty moving around the house (30.56% mild); 63.89% reported difficulties leaving their home (22.22% moderate); 86.11% reported difficulty walking long distances (38.89% extreme or unable).

Participants with diabetic feet had limitations in the mobility domain, with the item standing up and walking long distances having a greater impact, with more than 27% of these patients having extreme difficulty or not being able to perform satisfactory mobility, compromising their quality of life.

Knowing the sample profile and associating an instrument that evaluates the kinetic-functional implications generated by diabetic wounds allows a targeted treatment based on the individual's functional independence.