Wound care
Wound care involves medical interventions to heal a wound after injury. Specialized treatment is provided for wounds that are nonhealing or refuse to heal on their own. A vital aspect of treatment includes learning how to properly dress and care for a wound.
Wound care center in Marion, North Carolina
When a wound isn't healing as it should, don't wait. Seek help and get the care you need.
Wounds come in many forms and can affect you in just as many ways. What doesn't change about wounds is their inconvenience. At Mission Hospital McDowell, we understand this frustration, and specialize in chronic and nonhealing wound treatments that maximize healing.
Conditions that require wound care
Proper wound care is not a one-size-fits-all approach, so we make sure to treat your wound like the unique one that it is. Types of wounds we treat include:
- Arterial ulcers
- Bone or soft tissue infection
- Burns
- Collagen vascular disease
- Crush injuries
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Immunosuppression
- Infectious ulcers
- Malnutrition
- Metabolic disorders
- Nonhealing surgical incisions
- Pressure wounds and ulcers
- Radiation therapy burns
- Thermal burns
- Vasculitis ulcers
- Venous leg and stasis ulcers
Services offered at our wound center
Our wound care doctors recognize the challenges produced by chronic and nonhealing wounds, working tirelessly to treat your condition and free you of daily discomfort.
Wound care treatments
Burns and wounds require delicate care and attention. Your rehabilitation journey may be difficult, but it begins with awareness and ambition to make lasting change in your life. We walk beside you every step on the road to recovery, and cater our services and treatments to your individual situation. Our services include:
- Advanced wound dressings
- Bioengineered skin substitutes
- Compression therapy
- Debridement
- Negative pressure wound therapy
- Radiologic imaging and vascular studies
- Skin substitutes
- Total contact casting
- Wound dressings