Chronic wounds and wounds that fail to progress through the phases of wound healing as expected, may require additional interventions to enhance [Read More]
Adjunctive Modalities
Regenerative Medicine in Wound Healing
Can regenerative medicine fully heal wounds that are currently beyond repair? Regenerative medicine uses three methods to work with the body's [Read More]
Dragon Blood Being Tested as an Alternative to Conventional Antibiotics
Scientists from the George Mason University in Virginia have developed a new peptide that can heal infected wounds in laboratory mice. The [Read More]
Skin Cell Gun
The skin cell gun, also known as the skin gun or SkinGun, is a device that sprays a persons own stem cells to [Read More]
Wound Modalities Utilized in Wound Care: Promising Modalities Used Less Commonly
In this series, we have been focusing on wound care modalities that are commonly used in wound care management. Now we turn our focus to lesser [Read More]
Modalities Utilized in Wound Healing: Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT)
Negative pressure wound therapy, also known as NPWT, is a relatively new modality in wound healing; however, there is much evidence, both [Read More]
Modalities Utilized in Wound Healing: Electrical Stimulation
Electrical stimulation is a relatively new phenomenon in wound care. While some studies have shown little to no improvement with the use of [Read More]
Modalities Utilized in Wound Healing: Pulsed Lavage
In the last segment, we discussed whirlpool treatments; however, in some cases whirlpool is not convenient or available. When whirlpool is not an [Read More]
Understanding Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is becoming more and more common in clinical practice as the body of evidence supporting its use grows. [Read More]
Electrical Stimulation in Wound Healing
If wound healing is not successfully achieved using a conservative approach, through sterile dressings or topical antibiotics, for example, a [Read More]