Healing Skin Necrosis with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Skin necrosis is a severe condition characterized by the death of skin cells or tissue due to compromised blood supply. It can occur as a result of various factors, such as traumatic injuries, burns, infections, or underlying health conditions like diabetes and vascular diseases. Prompt and appropriate treatment is essential to prevent further tissue damage […]
How Can You Treat A Dehisced Wound?
Wound dehiscence can often signify a long road ahead after surgery. The good news is that there are advanced wound care treatments and specialists who can help those with a dehisced wound heal more quickly and effectively. What is Wound Dehiscence? Wound dehiscence happens when the two edges of a wound have failed to […]
4 Healing Food Essentials That Promote Wound Healing
What you eat plays a significant role in how your body functions on a day-to-day basis. Many people, however, don’t think about how the food they eat affects their body’s wound healing process. Eating a balanced diet of healing foods can help your body heal more quickly and effectively. What Food Essentials Are Good For […]
Can Arterial Ulcers Be Healed?
There’s enough blood flowing through your body right now to fill a one-gallon milk jug. Every ounce of that blood has a specific job, but what happens when your blood can’t fulfill its life-sustaining purposes due to weak circulation? Poor blood flow is a common yet dangerous condition that leads to serious health complications. Without […]
June is Wound Healing Awareness Month
The American Board of Wound Management reports there are 6.7 million people currently suffering from non-healing wounds. Often, healing is complicated and slowed by underlying conditions such as diabetes, venous or arterial problems, unrelieved pressure, radiation tissue damage, and infection. Wound Healing Awareness R3 Wound Care and Hyperbarics exists today for this reason. We believe […]
What are the Common Causes of Chronic Wounds?
If your wound is not healing, it is more than likely causing you extensive pain and anxiety, and possibly putting you at risk of a serious infection. The one thing we know for sure is that you don’t want to be hospitalized because of a chronic wound. Fortunately, there are advanced treatment options available to […]
How Wound Healing Changes with the Aging Process
The aging process brings with it a handful of unexpected challenges. As our bodies change over time, often, our bodies take longer to do things. Maybe we feel stiffer for longer after exercise, or perhaps our digestive system becomes sluggish over time. Our body’s natural healing abilities start to slow with age and even the […]
Do I Need a Doctor Referral for HBOT Therapy?
Have you found that making an appointment with your general practitioner so that they can refer you to a specialist can be a waste of time and money? A recent article in the British Health Service Journal (HSJ) addresses this very topic, suggesting that self-referral has many benefits to patient care, waiting times, and capacity. […]
What You Should Know About HBOT Wound Care
Do you need to speed up the healing of a wound? Maybe you have an injury that hasn’t healed after many weeks. Well, it’s time to look into Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and its many benefits. The first thing to know about hyperbaric wound care is that exposing your body to 100% oxygen while under […]
How to Speed Up Wound Healing
Everything we do these days is faster than it used to be. The same goes for how we want our bodies to heal. We want to get back to 100% as soon as possible. But if you’ve recently undergone surgery or you have a stubborn wound and are having a difficult time healing, there are […]