If you’re dealing with a wound that just won’t heal, our expert Wound Care and Podiatric Surgery specialists can provide the services you need to heal comfortably and safely.
WOUND CARE DEPARTMENT
Watson Clinic’s Wound Care department provides specialized treatments for chronic or slow-healing wounds. When left untreated or neglected, these wounds can lead to chronic disease, infection, poor circulation or even amputation.
These referrals are provided in situations that warrant a more specialized approach for conditions including:
- Wounds, cuts or burns that haven’t begun to heal within two weeks
- Signs of troubling infection
- Patients who suffer from factors that can complicate the healing process, such as diabetes or poor circulation
- Ulcers or other wounds resulting from radiation therapy
- Repeated infections of the bone
- Collaborations with interventional radiologists during revascularization efforts
Our Wound Care physicians will recommend the course of treatment best suited to each patient’s condition, which may include compression wrappings, antibiotics, topical wound medications, customized dressings, or the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
The three expert specialists in our Podiatric Surgery department are specially trained in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of wounds afflicting the feet and lower extremities.
They treat conditions like diabetic foot ulcers, venous ulcers, bone infections, pressure sores, and traumatic injuries in the form of abrasions, cuts and fractures. Offering services as varied as sophisticated dressings, medications, surgical efforts, and proper guidance on self-care, their efforts can avert severe infection, hospitalization and even amputation.