Wound Center
Call 828.315.5840Five million Americans suffer from chronic, non-healing wounds. Non-healing wounds can be dangerous and in extreme situations, life-altering. When conventional medical management cannot help your non-healing wounds, the team at Frye Regional Wound Center can help.
Our wound care team are experts at using evidence-based treatment to create a systematic approach to chronic wound healing. Our Wound Care Center works hand in hand with community and hospital resources to develop a comprehensive care plan for patients with chronic wounds. This results in faster wound healing. Advanced wound therapies include Specialty Wound Dressings, Wound Debridement, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy, Compression Wraps, Skin Substitutes, Total Contact Casting, and use of Specialty Topical Treatments.
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Treatments offered for:
- Burns
- Lacerations
- Acute or chronic wounds
- Vascular ulcers and wounds complicated by diabetes
- Nail and callous debridement
- Ostomy care
- Compression therapy
- Infection-control
- Patient education concerning procedures, both pre-operative and post-operative
- Preventative diabetic foot care
- Preventative measures to preclude recurrence of wounds
- Prevention of amputation
Indications for treatment include…
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Venous stasis ulcers
- Arterial disease
- Lower leg ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Bone infections (osteomyelitis)
- Skin tears or lacerations
- Radiation injury
- Post-operative infected wounds
- Slow or non-healing wounds
- Venous Insufficiency/Varicose Veins
- Edema