Soft Tissue Injury Articles & Analysis
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Treatment of pediatric soft tissue wounds presents additional complexities and highlights unique requirements. This piece provides a synopsis of an article [1] published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports by Dr. Kyle Crowley and his colleagues from the Division of Paediatric Surgery at Townsville University Hospital in Queensland, Australia. NovoSorb® BTM, a biodegradable ...
Complex wounds often involve exposed deep structures of the dermal layer, requiring prompt wound closure and tissue reconstruction. It is essential to quickly assess the defect and identify the most effective treatment method for optimizing the patient’s experience and outcome. Often, dermal substitutes are selected as a surgical option for temporizing the wound bed while also facilitating ...
MRI Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of a very large magnet, radio waves, and a computer to produce detailed, cross-sectional, and three-dimensional images of organs and structures within the body. An MRI scan is a valuable diagnostic tool that can show injuries or other anomalies that cannot be seen in a CT scan or X-ray. For instance, soft ...
The world is in the midst of a pandemic and the economic woes are being felt around every corner, including our patients and our clinics. Times are changing and consumer patterns will forever be altered. Gone are the times of densely crowded waiting rooms to see the doctor! Enter, the “boutique” style clinic that sees less patients, provides superior cleanliness and gets faster more ...
Cryotherapy Cryotherapy (also known as cold therapy) is broadly defined as the use of very cold temperatures for medical or general wellness purposes. Modern cryotherapy (which comes from the Greek kyro, meaning “cold” and therapeia, meaning “healing”) can be traced back thousands of years, and some form of it was practiced by the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, ...