Spinal cord injury Archives - Willingsford Healthcare

Bed rest and its complications

Bed rest causes complications such as loss of muscle mass, strength and tone; soft tissue change, osteoporosis (bone demineralisation), degenerative joint disease, increased heart rate,

Difference between acute and chronic osteomyelitis

Acute osteomyelitis is usually detectable two weeks after infection has taken place. Only inflammation is seen. If acute osteomyelitis is detected and acted upon urgently,

Amicapsil-SCI treatment of chronic grade 4 pressure ulcer in spinal cord injury

Pressure ulcer at detection 7 weeks earlier. A pressure ulcer or pressure sore was detected and treated for 2 months with UrgoTul initially and later

Amicapsil-SCI treatment of acute grade 3 in spinal cord injury

At the time of starting treatment with Amicapsil-SCI, the pressure ulcer had been observed approximately two weeks earlier. The treatment use prior to Amicapsil-SCI was

MPPT treatment of wounds and pressure ulcers in spinal cord injured patients

New data indicate that the global annual prevalence of pressure ulcers in SCI-persons is 32.4% (Shiferaw et al. 2020). When a pressure ulcer is severe

MPPT induces tissue regeneration, whereas PHMB causes degeneration, in patient

Amicapsil was used on this wound for 4 months from late June to mid-October and had been able to remove a wound infection and advance

35 year old infected necrotic abscess following radiation therapy

A 74-year-old lady had received very high doses of radiotherapy 35 years ago to treat cervical cancer. This had created an abscess which 35 years

3.5 year old sacrum pressure ulcer

Background As a consequence of hospitalisation, ICU, in connection with initial spinal injury, an approximately 60-year-old man developed a sacrum pressure ulcer which very quickly

2 year old grade 3 sacral pressure ulcer closes in 17 days

Patient was a woman in her late thirties C5 complete quadriplegic, 20 years paralysed. The pressure ulcer was a category 2 of 1.5cm x 1.4cm

9 week old chronic pressure ulcer in SCI-person

Paraplegic patient had 9-week old pressure ulcer on buttock. Hydrogel, manuka honey and Flaminal Forte, respectively in combination with Durafibre had been tried, but the