Advanced wound therapy is a suite of solutions for slow-healing or nonhealing wounds. At Rocky Mountain Wound Care Specialists in Loveland, Colorado, the region’s only certified physician wound care specialist, Amy Pate, MD, MPH, CWSP, offers the most advanced treatments for all types of chronic wounds. To learn more about office-based wound care, call the office or use the online booking feature.
Advanced wound therapy includes a variety of specialized treatments for chronic wounds. If you have a slow-healing or nonhealing wound, the standard approaches to healing, like keeping the wound clean and waiting for your body to recover naturally, aren’t enough. Advanced wound therapy offers paths to faster and more efficient healing.
Advanced wound therapy is important—and even crucial—for people with chronic wounds. The most common types of wounds requiring advanced wound therapy include:
Additionally, atypical wounds—those that have unique characteristics and don’t fall into the standard wound categories—require advanced wound therapy.
Advanced wound therapy is so important because of the danger of potentially life-threatening infections. When infection occurs, it can quickly spread, causing further wound breakdown, gangrene (tissue death), abscesses, and bone destruction. Other complications can form as well.
Untreated or uncontrolled chronic wounds are one of the main causes of the 185,000 limb amputations in America annually. In fact, foot ulcers are the original cause of 85% of lower limb amputations today.
Fortunately, advanced wound therapy can help you reverse course and start the healthy healing process to avoid limb loss.
As the only practice with a certified physician wound specialist in Northern Colorado,
Rocky Mountain Wound Care Specialists offers a comprehensive array of advanced wound therapy options.
Dr. Pate has years of specialized expertise in all types of chronic wounds, and she personalizes a unique recovery plan for you. Some of the many advanced therapies available are:
How does skin substitute placement work?
In addition to the above approaches, Dr. Pate conveniently performs skin substitute placement procedures in the office. She starts with thorough wound cleaning and removes dead tissue (debridement) from the wound to create the optimal environment for the skin substitute. Dr. Pate uses a variety of products including Epifix, EpiCord, EpiEffect, Affinity, Novachor, and Amnioband.
Dr. Pate removes the product from a sterile package and trims it to fit the size of your wound. She then applies a dressing over the membrane. While cellular and tissue-based products can be remarkably effective, it may work even better alongside other approaches like compression therapy, negative pressure wound therapy and offloading.
All advanced wound care happens in the Rocky Mountain Wound Care Specialists office instead of a hospital. So you’ll avoid the high facility fees that hospitals charge. Additionally, Dr. Pate leads the wound care herself, while hospital-based facilities often have mid-level non-physician providers in that role.
To learn more about how advanced wound care can revitalize your recovery, call Rocky Mountain Wound Care Specialists or book an appointment online now.