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What is a wound?

Any time the skin is injured, the body immediately begins to work towards remedying the wounded area. It is a natural process that can sometimes forms a scar as it heals.

Acute wounds follow the expected and predictable rate of healing through each of the stages above. Acute wounds usually do not have complications and show a definite sign of healing within one to four weeks. All wounds start out as acute wounds.

A chronic wound starts as an acute wound. It becomes chronic when it doesn’t move through an expected or predictable rate of healing through each stage of wound healing. Wounds are considered chronic when they fail to heal within about four weeks after being treated. If it has not healed entirely in two months, it’s considered a chronic wound.

Chronic wounds impact the quality of life for an estimated 2.5% of the United States population, and because successful treatment of poorly healing wounds often requires intervention by specialists in several medical fields.

Our Services:

We have established partnerships with home health nursing agencies and wound center colleagues in Middle Tennessee to provide personalized, compassionate wound care in the home setting. Our experienced providers eliminate the need for visits to outpatient wound care centers and hospital readmissions.  This ensures that you receive expert care in the comfort of your own surroundings. These services include the following:

• Diagnostic Work-Up of Chronic Wounds
  • History/Physical Exam
  • Wound Assessment
  • Skin Biopsy and Tissue Cultures
  • Venous Duplex Ultrasound
  • ABI
  • Bloodwork
• Medical management +/- subspecialty referral coordination as necessary
• Conservative Wound Therapies
  • Wound cleaning
  • Wound dressings
  • Wound debridement
  • Infection management and prevention
  • Compression Therapy
  • Offloading Techniques
• Advanced Wound Therapies
  • Regenerative therapies (i.e.- platelet rich plasma)
  • Bio-engineered skin substitutes
• Interventional Management
  • Skin cancer surgery (Biopsy-proven skin cancers)
  • Endovenous ablation, Foam sclerotherapy (Venous leg ulcers)