Wound Healing with Active Home Health: More Than Just a Band-aid
Using home health for wound care helps your wound heal faster, reduce complications and provides support and education to help prevent future wounds.
Think about the last time you got a cut. Chances are it was a minor cut, requiring a little antibiotic ointment and a band-aid. It was probably all healed within a week.
Chronic wounds, on the other hand, need more care. They do not follow the typical healing pattern. They take longer to heal and have a profound impact on a patient’s life. It is estimated that 6.7 million patients suffer from some sort of chronic wound, costing the US health care system about $50 billion each year.
What Contributes to Poor Wound Healing?
Some of the most common detrimental factors to wound healing include:
- Diabetes
- Tobacco Abuse
- Malnutrition
- Obesity
- Lack of mobility
- Stress
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Surgery
Consequences of Poor Wound Healing
Poor wound healing has a variety of complications. These complications can be physical, social, and mental in nature. They include increased pain and distress. Patients with chronic wounds tend to isolate themselves and have higher levels of depression and anxiety. Wounds can lead to scarring and impaired function and mobility. Chronic wounds can lead to extended hospital stays, amputations and even death.
Wound Healing with Active Home Health
When faced with a complicated care plan, many patients feel levels of uncertainty and fear. They may not have the time and resources to properly execute the plan. Many people need extra help with daily tasks while their wound is healing. Active Home Health is here to help.
Our wound care certified clinicians are trained to treat all sorts of wounds, including open, infected wounds or wounds with a drain tube. We can irrigate and debride wounds. We can help with pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers and even post-operative wounds. Our team will monitor for odors, damaged tissues, drainage and swelling as the wound heals. Our nurses will help monitor and treat any pain associated with the wound.
Wound care with Active Home Health goes beyond helping the wound to heal. Our team can provide education on proper nutrition and how to prevent future wounds. If there is a contributing disease, like diabetes, our team will help to manage that as well!
Our therapists can provide a home and safety analysis and provide recommendations for changes. They can also educate you on compensation techniques to help protect the wounds and dressings while healing and recommend balance and strength exercises.
Some of the benefits from choosing Active Home Health’s wound care services include:
- Better management of contributing diseases
- Decreased hospitalization
- Reduced risk of infection
- Reduced complications, including amputation
- Education on proper diet
- Reduced pain
- Improved healing time
- Manage the wound from home
Why Choose Active Home Health?
Active Home Health provides expert wound healing services. Not only will your wound heal faster with us, but our team will educate you on how to prevent future wounds. Our goal is always to enable you to prevent future complications and restore you back to your active lifestyle. If you or a loved one are struggling with a wound, call us today!
