Wound Care
Walk-In Clinic & Family Medicine in Knoxville, TN
About 2.5% of Americans currently have a nonhealing wound. Unfortunately, many of those nonhealing wounds can lead to infection and severe complications if untreated. At South Knox Family Care, Rose Cunningham, FNP, offers wound care to stimulate safe healing. Call the Knoxville, Tennesee, office or book easily online for a consultation.
If you have a chronic wound — a wound that doesn’t heal normally after one month — you need wound care.
While home care is adequate for some more minor wounds, with moderate-to-severe wounds that don’t heal as expected, you need a more aggressive approach. That’s where the wound care specialists at South Knox Family Care come in.
Wound care can help with any chronic wound, but the most common examples include:
An ulcer is an open wound that won’t heal. Most ulcers develop as complications of diabetes, but they can also occur in others, such as people with vascular disease and mobility issues.
A puncture is a hole that can penetrate multiple layers of skin. You can get a puncture in many ways, but the most common is a sharp object like an ice pick penetrating the skin.
Cuts can vary from short lacerations that barely break the skin to significant gaping cuts that completely separate your skin.
Regardless of how your wound initially developed, proper wound care is the single most crucial aspect of recovery. To minimize the risk of complications and maximize your results, start wound care as soon as you realize the wound isn’t healing as expected.
South Knox Family Care focuses on nonsurgical wound care. Your treatment commonly includes cleaning the wound, topical treatments as needed, and wound dressing. The providers may also teach you how to change wound dressings between appointments.
In some cases, particularly with infected wounds, your provider may also prescribe oral antibiotics. Several noninvasive treatments can stimulate natural healing, so you may also have other natural therapies to help you heal.
Severely infected wounds often destroy tissue. This necrotic tissue requires debridement (removal) to allow new skin to grow effectively. There are several methods of nonsurgical debridement, but in serious cases, you may need surgical debridement.
South Knox Family Care specializes in wounds that don’t require surgical debridement, so they may refer you to a surgical specialist should you need that type of care.
Nonsurgical wound healing can restore your health. Call South Knox Family Care or easily book an appointment online.