Silverleaf Medical products has created an electric wound dressing that staves off infection by killing microbes in an open wound and preventing other germs from getting in. They call it the CMB ...

In animal testing, wounds treated with electric bandages healed 30% faster than wounds treated with conventional bandages, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.

For over 150 years, scientists have known that wounds alter electric fields across skin cells, says cell biologist Min Zhao of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. But they didn ...

Previous attempts to apply electric fields to treat nonhealing skin wounds by insertion of metal electrodes directly into wound beds have had mixed success 8,9. The authors present evidence that ...

The course is designed to provide the opportunity for physiotherapists and other health care professionals to become involved in electrical stimulation therapy (EST) for chronic non-healing wounds.