Understanding Wound Healing

Many of the non-ablative treatments offered today require the practitioner to know even more about skin physiology and understand at a biological level, exactly what the modern treatments are doing to skin and how they change and improve skin. Knowledge vital to competent dermal needling, photo modulation, ultra sound, and intense pulsed light.



With the advances in skin treatment services, rejuvenation modalities and cosmetic formulations, skin therapists now need to know even more about skin physiology and know at a biological level, exactly what the modern treatments are doing to skin and how they change and improve skin. To understand the action of a modality, the therapist of today must comprehend, and apply all that is known about the wound healing processes of skin. The wound healing process can then be applied to the action of non ablative modalities such as iontophoresis, dermal needling, photo modulation, ultra sound, and intense pulsed light. The ablative actions of cosmetic surgery and laser can also be included.

This single unit course explains the fundamentals of the wound healing process including:

• The importance of understanding the wound healing process and how it is relevant to all non ablative and ablative treatments
• The wound healing timeline and phases
• Best practice protocols for each phase
• Understanding the nutrition and supplements that are vital in the wound healing process