According to a recent issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery the President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Roxanne Guy, MD said "Plastic surgeons are making impressive steps in finding better ways to heal wounds."
She continued by saying, "Diabetics may soon have more choices to battle foot sores and leg ulcers, while surgical patients of all kinds could heal faster and forgo extensive pain medication because of this groundbreaking research."
Researchers have found a subpopulation of bone marrow stem cells that may heal patients faster than utilizing the whole stem cell. In another medical feat plastic surgeons may have found a workable scaffold that will allow them to mold and hold stem cells prior to injecting them into the body, allowing patients to "grow" their own tissue graft right on the wound site. These improvements in treatments also offer quicker, better relief for diabetic patients.
Surgical patients undergoing operations ranging from breast reconstruction to a tummy tuck, may experience less pain and heal faster with pulsed magnetic fields, according to the findings in another recent study.
The procedure is enabled with low-frequency magnetic fields directed at the wound with a small, portable device to aid cells in healing the body.
This recovery method is ideal since discharge times are increasing. With any advancement in medicine or surgery a patients recovery time is essential. With the reported findings, plastic surgeons may soon help people get back to their daily lives quicker.
