Offloading & Immobilization at Encompass HealthCare
Prevent repetitive trauma to your wound so it can heal.
Offloading &
Immobilization
Offloading & immobilization help wound healing by preventing repetitive trauma to the wound so it can heal. This is available at Encompass HealthCare & Wound Medicine’s outpatient office so that you don’t have to go to the hospital.
When someone has a wound and it keeps bumping or stretching in the same place, it cannot heal. This one of 5 important reasons wounds won’t heal. The continuous trauma will “undo” whatever healing has taken place and keep the patient in a non-healing situation.
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Encompass Healthcare was created to offer patients access to hospital-level wound treatment modalities, infection treatment, cutting edge technologies, and total services in a convenient and comfortable outpatient setting, without the risks associated with in-hospital treatments. That allows for better results, reduced costs, and increased patient satisfaction to help heal leg wounds, buttock wounds & all types of sores.
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Orthotics
Orthotics are another way to immobilize and offload. By design, the patient’s orthotic is meant to control, guide, limit or restrict movement in a given direction. It can also reduce weight bearing forces for a particular purpose, as in the case of someone with a buttock bed sore. In many cases, it reduces pain as well, due to the offloading nature.
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A specialized offloading bed like the Clinitron® Bed
Some of our patients need complete offloading while sleeping, due to serious, deep bed sores, pressure ulcers or following plastic reconstructive surgery to heal a bed sore. The Clinitron® Air Fluidized Therapy beds provide an ideal healing environment for these types of patients by minimizing pressure and the forces that cause tissue breakdown: pressure, shear, friction, heat, and moisture. This advanced technology provides the highest level of wound care for patients with complex, advanced wounds that are difficult to heal and expensive to manage.
Another specialized mattress that uses air flow alternating pressure: it uses alternating air pressure to support the body while offloading in a timely manner for bed sore prevention and healing.
Many of our patients visit us with Nurse Case Managers who are often surprised at the plethora of hospital-level modalities that we offer.
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