TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Failure of Wounds to Heal A1 - Hamm, Rose A2 - Davenport, Todd E. A2 - Kulig, Kornelia A2 - Sebelski, Chris A. A2 - Gordon, James A2 - Watts, Hugh G. PY - 2013 T2 - Diagnosis for Physical Therapists: A Symptom-Based Approach AB - This chapter describes pathology that may lead to wounds that fail to heal. Chronic wounds are defined as wounds that "fail to progress through a normal, orderly, and timely sequence of repair or wounds that pass through the repair process without restoring anatomic and functional results."1 Without adequate treatment of the wound etiology and comorbidities, the composition of the wound tissue and fluid (called chronic wound fluid) will develop certain properties that inhibit healing. The length of time a wound exists is less important in determining if it is chronic than are the characteristics of the wound tissue. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1133836269 ER -