Low-intensity vibrations may heal wounds quickly in diabetics: Researchers

Zee Media Bureau

Washington: According to a new promising research, chronic wounds in people with type 2 diabetes may heal more quickly if exposed to low-intensity vibrations.

The research is under clinical trials on mice at Stony Brook University in New York. The results of the study suggest that wounds exposed to vibration five times a week for 30 minutes healed more quickly than wounds in mice of a control group.

Vibration helped tissue to form new blood vessels - a process called angiogenesis - and also led to increased expression of pro-healing growth factors and signalling molecules called chemokines.

It is a non-invasive procedure and does not require any drugs, said the study published in the journal PLOS One.

(With Agencies inputs)