Modifying Macrophages to Accelerate Healing
The immune cells called macrophages play an important role in the healing of injuries. Their activities appear to be the key to examples of exceptional regeneration in mammals, for example. This may have something to do with their clearance of the transient senescent cells generated during regeneration, or may be related to other signaling processes. Researchers have in previous years shown that adjusting the behavior of macrophages can alter the pace at which wounds heal, and it is hoped that this might be a compensatory approach capable of reducing the loss of regenerative capacity that occurs with aging. Here is a recen...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 29, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Smart Scar-Care Personalized Dual Therapy Device for Hypertrophic Scars
At the The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) engineers have developed a innovative pad for treating hypertrophic scars and keloids. Such scars have a great deal of built-up collagen inside, forcing the scar to swell and protrude from the rest of the skin. Delivering pressure onto the scar via a pad helps it to heal better. Additionally, moisturizing the wound provides its own benefit. Existing methods offer either pressure or silicone gel for moisture, but the Smart Scar-Care Pad from PolyU does both at the same time.
The device has a silicone rubber exterior which consists of an array of different height studs....
Source: Medgadget - May 1, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Manipulating the Wound Healing Process to Prevent Scarring
While there are some engineered mammalian lineages that can heal small wounds without scarring, further investigations of the biochemistry involved have yet to lead to a robust clinical treatment. Other lines of research are starting to look more promising, however. Here researchers demonstrate early implementations of a methodology that may prove to be the basis for a practical therapy to reduce scar tissue formation in wound healing:
Fat cells called adipocytes are normally found in the skin, but they're lost when wounds heal as scars. The most common cells found in healing wounds are myofibroblasts, which were ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 6, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Take a Cue
Tuesday - Entry 41: I am sitting in the Sandy library and thinking about my options. Today I received the results of the MRI for my elbow. Unlike the prolapsed disks in my spine that have not healed, my elbow seems to have recovered from the car accident last Spring. Healthy joint. Untorn ligaments. Everything looks right as rain except for a large, lumpy thing on the tip of it. The bruising I had experienced seems to have subsided. I can carry groceries without pain now. I can do push-ups and ride exercise bikes. I imagine I can start taking my bike out for a ride again, something I have sorely missed doing all sum...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - November 20, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Journaling Writing Source Type: blogs
Sensus SRT-100 Now FDA Approved for Keloids
Sensus Healthcare (Boca Raton FL) received FDA approval to begin marketing its SRT-100 superficial radiotherapy system for the treatment of keloids, or scar tissue that forms over a wound whether from injury or surgical procedures. The system is used otherwise for treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers during in-office procedures.The SRT-100 utilizes superficial X-rays to deliver radiation to the surface of the skin while causing no pain and not requiring anesthesia.Read More (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - May 31, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Dermatology Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Dangers of body piercing
Punching a hole in your tongue, nipples, or worse your genitals, is a serious decision. Before you decide to have a body piercing, consider the risks of infection, allergic reactions, nerve damage, teeth damage, bleeding, and bacterial and viral infections.DANGERS OF BODY PIERCINGFashion has no boundaries. We will go to to all limits to keep up with the latest fashion. For the past 20 years, celebrities, singers, and sport stars, all have had some body piercing. Popular body parts are the: eyebrows, lips, tongue, nose, ear, and even genitalia. EAR P...
Source: Dr. Needles Medical Blogs - July 21, 2010 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Tags: DANGERS OF BODY PIERCING Source Type: blogs
Saying Goodbye to Surgery Scars
If you’re planning to have cancer surgery in the near future or recently had surgery, your thoughts undoubtedly move to how you can minimize the trauma and scarring associated with treatment and speed the healing process. Healing wounds whether from accidental injury or surgical intervention requires a delicate interplay of multiple cell types, nutritional factors, immune processes and growth factors. Proper planning and prompt attention can promote normalization in appearance.
Healing -From the Inside Out
Wound healing is a stepwise process involving hemostasis, inflammation, and remodeling. During hemostasis, blood pla...
Source: Dr. Donna, MedicineWoman - January 25, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Dr. Donna Tags: Personal Health healing scars supplements surgery wound healing Source Type: blogs
