A randomized control study on the effect of biphasic electrical stimulation in a warm room on skin blood flow and healing rates in chronic wounds of patients with and without diabetes

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Lawson, Daryl ^a   Petrofsky, Jerrold S ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic wounds; Diabetes; Electrical stimulation; Skin blood flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC WOUND; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HUMAN; LASER; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; ULCER; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34249786252     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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