TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DERMAL ULCERS WITH HIGH VOLTAGE PULSATING CURRENT
Keywords:
high voltage electrical stimulation, leprosy, chronic skin woundsAbstract
Objective
The objective of this study was to examine the effects of treating four patients (n=4) presenting chronic skin ulcers of various origins, with a high voltage pulsating current.
Methods
The treatment consisted of cathodal stimulation applied to the wound with a monophasic quadratic twin-peak double-pulsating current at an average intensity of 1SOV for 30 minutes. The treatment was applied three times a week for 1O weeks, and the follow up evaluations were performed before starting the treatment and at the end of the 5th and 10th weeks. Medical files and photographic analyses were used in the evaluation of the wounds. The calculation of the dimension of the wounds was carried out using specific software developed for this purpose. To analyze the results, the wound areas were estimated in cm2 and the percent alteration in size at the three different moments subsequently calculated.
Results
A reduction in size of the wounds was observed in the four treated volunteers: Volunteer 1 presented 100.00% of reduction, volunteer 2 a reduction of 18.90%;
volunteer 3 a reduction of 21.10% and volunteer 4 a reduction of 39.99%.
Conclusion
The results obtained in this study indicate the possibility of adopting high voltage pulsating current in the treatment of chronic wounds of different etiologies, under the experimental conditions used.
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