Seven million Americans suffer from chronic or slow-healing wounds--this number includes people with diabetes, dementia, paralysis, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and poor circulation, as well as the elderly and those with reduced mobility. Healing Wounds, Healthy Skin provides patients and caregivers with everything they need to know on the subject, including:

• Why chronic wounds develop and who is at risk of developing them
• What "normal healing" is
• What the different types of wounds are, including those associated with chronic disease
• How...