Journal of the Korean Academy of Clinical Electrophysiology (대한임상전기생리학회지)
- Volume 5 Issue 2
- /
- Pages.23-33
- /
- 2007
- /
- 1738-0472(pISSN)
The Effects of Pulsed Ultrasound Treatment and Cold Therapy in the Process of Acute Wound Healing
흰쥐의 급성기 창상치유에 맥동초음파와 냉 적용이 미치는 효과
- Kim, Tae-Yoon (Dept. of Physical Therapy, Sinwoon Hospital) ;
- Cho, Nam-Jung (Dept. of Physical Therapy, The Graduate School, Seonam Universty) ;
- Jeong, Hwa-Su (Dept. of Physical Therapy, The Graduate School, Seonam Universty) ;
-
Kim, Mon-Su
(Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Health, Seonam Universty)
- Published : 2007.10.31
Abstract
Summary of background data: At the wound from life of the human being very regarding at and a healing process the wound in the portion which is important meantime the many research is accomplished and healing process at the wound the research is small very from the physical therapy territory. Purpose: This study was performed to examine the effects of cold therapy and pulsed ultrasound treatment in the process of acute wound healing. To this end, we measured changes in the length of the wounds, and observed tissues through an optical microscope in order to evaluate the healing process of the acute wounds. Methods: We divided twenty Sprague-Dawley rats into four experimental groups of five rats each and treated them for three days after wound creation. Then we extracted tissues from the wounds on day 6th after wound creation and then took them out for hematoxylin-eosin(HE) staining. We measured changes in the length of the wounds every other day. Result: We were able to detect significant statistical differences in the cold therapy and pulsed ultrasound-treated wounds compared with control wounds. We observed tissues through an optical microscope and found the tissues in cold therapy and pulsed ultrasound-treated wounds healed well. Conclusions: Overall results indicated that the use of cold therapy and pulsed ultrasound treatment were effective in the process of acute wound healing.