Chronic wounds affect over 6.5 million people in the United States. A chronic nonhealing wound is often correlated with comorbidities such as diabetes, vascular deficits, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease. Wound healing is often also delayed by the presence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors including medications, poor nutrition, comorbidities, and inappropriate dressing selection.
Indications for specialized wound care provided at Live in Motion:
- Non-healing or slow healing wounds
- Poor self management strategies
- Larger wounds requiring frequent monitoring of healing
- Wounds at a higher risk for complications and infection
Wound types that may benefit from Physical Therapy wound care management:
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Venous Stasis Ulcers
- Pressure Ulcers
- Ischemic Ulcers
- Surgical wounds with delayed healing
- Traumatic wounds
- full and partial-thickness burns
When is PT wound care management contraindicated?
- Non-treated systemic infection or osteomyelitis
- Indications for surgical debridement or skin grafts and flaps
- Poor patient compliance
How can the PT providers at Live in Motion help?
- Sharp debridement of devitalized tissue as indicated
- Dressing changes individualized for the patients specific needs with regular monitoring of wound for appropriate healing with emphasis on communication with physician regarding management or other tests and treatments are warranted to enhance healing
- Compression wraps and advanced wound dressing selection
- Provide most appropriate dressing selection based on the wound type, size, drainage, bioburden/biofilm activity and quality of the surrounding tissue
- Patient/caregiver education regarding nutrition, dressing changes and self management strategies
General wound care provided at Live in Motion:
- Provide therapeutic compression
- Protect skin and periwound surface
- Manage bioburden
- Manage Exudate –
- Support granulation + Manage exudate
- Snap Therapy System, PICO 7 – disposable VAC
- 3M ActiV.A.C
Questions? Please give a call at 701-651-4325 or email at info@liveinmotionpt.com