RADIALLY TENSIONED WOUND OR SKIN TREATMENT DEVICES

Devices, kits and methods described herein may be for treatment to skin, including but not limited to wound healing, the treatment, amelioration, and/or prevention of scars or keloids. An applicator and/or tensioning device may be used to apply a dressing to a subject. The applicator and/or tensioni...

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Hauptverfasser: JACKSON, JASPER, ZEPEDA, JOHN, A, CALIGARIS, RICHARD, T, BEASLEY, WILLIAM, R
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:Devices, kits and methods described herein may be for treatment to skin, including but not limited to wound healing, the treatment, amelioration, and/or prevention of scars or keloids. An applicator and/or tensioning device may be used to apply a dressing to a subject. The applicator and/or tensioning device applies and/or maintains a strain in an elastic dressing, wherein at least some of the strain is out-of-plane or at a non-orthogonal, non- parallel and non-aligned orientation to other strains in the dressing.