Wounds Heal Faster with Ultrasonic Waves

Rochester, Minnesota, chronic wounds experienced by patients with diabetes often lead to amputation because it is difficult to cure. Now with ultrasonic technology, such a wound healing process can be accelerated to 50 percent.
Chronic wound does not heal experienced by 1 in 6 people with diabetes, especially in the legs. Reduced blood flow in this section causes the injury is getting worse, and then trigger gangrene or tissue death and should be amputated.
Another factor that causes poor healing wounds is a low immune system and infection. Both influence each other, because the body is not immune will easily become infected especially if they have open sores.
Generally this factor is treated with antibiotics, but in certain conditions and the severity of this step is not always successful. If in a matter of months or years of injury does not heal, amputation is often the last choice for the infection does not spread.
Recently, a study at the Mayo Clinic as reported by Dailymail, Wednesday (24/11/2010) gave birth to a new technology to help people with diabetes. This technology uses high-intensity ultrasonic waves that can accelerate the wound healing process.
Besides removing the bacteria that causeinfection, ultrasonic waves are also keeping healthy tissue around the wound so as not to come damaged. In addition, this wave also protects cells and new tissue formed during the healing process.
Experimental results show this technology can improve the healing process by 50 percent in usage over the past 12 weeks. This figure is higher than conventional treatments which only provide an increase of 29 percent.
In the experiment, participants were given an ultrasonic shot 3 times per week. Each shot only takes no more than 5 minutes.