New Dressing Uses Electric Stimulation to Heal Wounds Faster

Researchers develop new dressing that uses electric stimulation to speed up wound healing.

Scientists have developed a new, low-cost dressing which uses electrical stimulation to dramatically speed up healing of wounds.

The method developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US leverages energy generated from a patient's own body motions to apply gentle electrical pulses at the site of an injury.

In rodent tests, the dressings reduced healing times to a mere three days compared to nearly two weeks for the normal healing process, according to the research published in the journal ACS Nano.