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While your nurse or doctor helps you with the right treatment plan for your venous leg ulcer, the choices you make every day at home can support healing. Small, consistent actions and daily choices to help your leg ulcer healing at home will improve your health and wellbeing. Maintaining healthy habits, such as eating and drinking well and staying active, can help reduce the risk of your venous leg ulcer recurring after it has healed.

You may be wondering why you need compression therapy. Compression therapy is a key phase for venous leg ulcer treatment because it improves blood flow, reduces swelling, and helps the ulcer to heal. Wearing your compression therapy as advised by your doctor or nurse can also help reduce the risk of ulcers returning.

What is a venous leg ulcer? A venous leg ulcer is an open wound on your lower leg or ancle that hasn't healed after two weeks. It can happen if veins in the legs are weakened. Our veins carry blood back to the heart, with the help of small valves to keep it flowing in the right direction.

An article from the International Wound Journal highlights the critical role of utilising data from clinically relevant laboratory tests and well-structured clinical studies in the dressing selection process1. 

Understand the environmental impact of your surgical CO2 output as we help you calculate your OR carbon footprint and contribute to circularity

As part of a series on pressure injury prevention in the operating room, Mölnlycke® spoke to a group of specialist nurses and nurse educators. They shared their knowledge and offered tips for nurses and nurse managers to make pressure injury prevention in the OR a success.

As part of a series on pressure injury prevention in the operating room, Mölnlycke® spoke to a group of specialist nurses and nurse educators. They shared their advice on how to get buy-in and run a successful OR pressure injury prevention programme.

Mölnlycke® recently spoke to a doctor in Australia and a professor of nursing in the Czech Republic to learn how clinicians can best go about getting endorsement from hospital executives for pressure injury prevention interventions.

As part of a series on pressure injury prevention in the operating room, Mölnlycke^® spoke to a group of specialist nurses and nurse educators. They shared their knowledge and offered insights into which factors can increase a patient’s risk of pressure injury during surgery.