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Holiday Travel with Your Wound: The Inconvenient Guest
Holidays are a hectic time of year. You are scrambling to find the perfect gifts, make travel plans, cook, clean,…
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Oh the Holidays…Oh the Chronic Wound Pain!
The holiday season is a time of joy and love, but for people with chronic pain during the holidays it…
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Diabetic Burnout: What is it & how can we help ourselves?
Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy. Most of the food you…
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Celebrating Nurses Week Military Style: Life as a Military Nurse
Ever since the American revolution, women have served on the battlefield as nurses, water-bearers, cooks, laundresses, and saboteurs. It was…
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Lower Extremity Amputations: Why, What Kind, & Life After
Every year, surgeons perform a lower-limb amputation due specifically to diabetes on approximately 73,000 patients in the US alone. Annually…
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Stepping Into 2021 with a Fresh Start: 7 Habits for Highly Effective Wound Care
As we begin this New Year we have an opportunity to begin with a fresh start as we pursue our…
![The Real Grinch This Holiday Season: Wound Odour – What does it mean and what can be done?](https://eo2.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Blog-Wound-Odour.png)
The Real Grinch This Holiday Season: Wound Odour – What does it mean and what can be done?
Malodorous wounds (wounds that have a bad odour) cause concern to individuals with wounds, their families and friends, and to…
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Heather & Heather: A Caregiver Story
Every month at EO2, we have discussions on what we will blog about. I love that our clinicians want to…
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Caregiver Fatigue: The Burnout, Isolation & How to Get Through It
My mother-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. She was successfully treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The cancer…
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Skinny Diabetics: How Diabetes Affects Asians Differently
My family immigrated from the Philippines to the United States in 1972. When my father was 50 years old, he…
![The Trenches of NYC: Pandemic, Wounds, Fear and Triumph](https://eo2.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-trenches-of-NY-Blog-1.png)
The Trenches of NYC: Pandemic, Wounds, Fear and Triumph
This blog post was written by a member of the EO2 Team in the New York City area: Babak Nouri,…
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Skin Frailty: Take Care of your Skin
The skin is the largest organ of the human body, but it is often forgotten. The function of healthy skin…
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“ I’m Worried About my Wound…” — Stress, Anxiety, Pain and Wound Healing
These are some of the concerns persons with chronic wounds have shared. Wounds, especially when they are painful, can cause…
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The Importance of COMPRESSION in Wound Healing
In those who have or treat chronic leg ulcers, few things evoke more reaction than the subject of compression:…
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Pain Awareness Month
The word elicits a number of images and feelings. Whether physical, emotional, current or past, pain is part of the…
![4 Ways To Keep You (and your wound) Healthy](https://eo2.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4.png)
4 Ways To Keep You (and your wound) Healthy
This year, we are bombarded with the overwhelming statistics of how many are afflicted, how to minimize our chances of…
![Striving for 5: Limit Diabetic Wounds & Their Severity](https://eo2.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/STRIVE-for-5-1.png)
Striving for 5: Limit Diabetic Wounds & Their Severity
Ready or not, we are closing down the month of November and arriving at the flurry of holidays and activities!…
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When Giving Up is a GOOD Idea
Could giving up be a good idea? We will all encounter times that require us to give up some habits,…
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Here’s to a Wound Free year!
Happy New Year! One month has already flown by and it’s a great time to check in on how…
![Don’t Get Spooked by Treating Your Traumatic Wound](https://eo2.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dont-get-spooked.jpg)
Don’t Get Spooked by Treating Your Traumatic Wound
We don’t want to trick you this month, but in honor of Halloween we’ll treat you to some sweet info…
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RED LEG (Conditions, Irritations & Infections)
Welcome to the turning of summer into fall! As we are encountering everything from colorful trees to colorful politicians, let’s…
![Seeing Red In The Wound Bed](https://eo2.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/seeing-002810029.png)
Seeing Red In The Wound Bed
Years ago, when I was very green in the wound care field, I was asking one of my mentors, “How…
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Surgical Wounds That Are Left Open (On Purpose)
Last month we explored one type of surgical wound: What happens when a closed surgical incision opens up? This month,…
![Incision Renditions: Who do some incisions fail?](https://eo2.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/incision-renditions.png)
Incision Renditions: Who do some incisions fail?
Many of us in our lifetime will have some sort of incision. After surgery, incisions will be closed by special…
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Coming Clean: A Guide to Wound Cleansing
Every day in our wound clinic there is one topic that comes up in many different forms: How do I…
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Calluses: Friend or Foe?
What is going on inside the skin? Take a look at these next photos: this first one shows a problem…
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5 Do’s and Dont’s of Pressure Ulcers
5 Do’s and Dont’s of Pressure Ulcers Last month we discussed how skin can be under pressure as well as…