Under ideal circumstances, any wound that develops in your body follows a straightforward, four-step process: Hemostasis, inflammation, cell proliferation, and remodeling and maturation. As your body travels through these stages, your wound heals and you get on with life.
For the millions of people with diabetes or peripheral artery disease (PAD), or any other condition that can affect blood flow and nerve health, wound healing can stall and infection can set in, turning a small wound into a very serious matter. In fact, about one-quarter of diabetics will develop a problematic leg or foot ulcer at some point in their lives.
To answer the call, Dr. Thomas Rambacher and the team here at Foot Ankle Leg Wound Care Orange County are specialists in foot, ankle, and leg wounds and we offer top-notch and advanced wound care for slow healing wounds.
Here, we get into some of the treatments in our wound care arsenal, which you’ll see is quite extensive.
With most slow-healing wounds, we deploy antibiotics right from the start to fight off harmful bacteria that can cause infections.
From advanced dressings and skin substitutes to ointments that clear away dead tissue, we offer a wide range of prescription products that help wounds heal.
Should infection take hold, we work quickly to clear the affected tissues in a process we call wound debridement. During a wound debridement, we remove infected, damaged, and dead tissues to concentrate wound healing resources on healthy tissue.
When healing resources aren’t getting to your lower limb wound, we can introduce reinforcements in the form of regenerative therapies like platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections and restorative cell treatments.
If the wound is open and vulnerable to harmful bacteria, we have techniques for closing the wound, including vacuum-assisted closure and surgical closure.
To create space for your wound to heal, we turn to customized orthotics, special boots, casting, and even external fixation. Each of these is designed to keep the wound stable and protected during healing.
If wound healing continues to stall, we may recommend flap reconstruction surgery or skin grafting during which Dr. Rambacher uses healthy tissues from other areas of your body to reconstruct the area around your wound.
As you can see, you’re in excellent hands when you see us for wound healing as we pride ourselves on offering the most advanced and effective wound care available.
To learn more about our wound care treatments, please don’t hesitate to contact our office in Mission Viejo, California, at 949-832-6018 or you can request an appointment online today.