Our MultiSpecialty Clinics in Live Oak offer services focused on amputation prevention and optimal healing for severe wounds, infections, trauma, and circulatory issues through our advanced limb salvage and complex wound closures.
At Texas MultiSpecialty Clinic, we strive to enhance and preserve every patient’s functionality, mobility, and overall quality of life. Harnessing the latest diagnostic technology, our skilled professionals employ compassionately driven surgical techniques and precision care to achieve the most favorable results.
What is Limb Salvage?
Limb salvage is the umbrella term covering the range of medical and surgical treatments executed to avert amputation. Often, patients live with chronic wounds, active infections, and foot ulcers secondary to diabetes, peripheral arterial disease, or other severe traumatic injuries. Through our multidisciplinary approach here at Texas MultiSpecialty Clinic, we seek to provide a customized plan for each patient for limb and functional restoration and to sustain long-term health.
Why Choose Texas MultiSpecialty Clinic?
- Veteran Care Personnel: Our core faculty consists of a collaborative multi-specialty team of wound care physicians, vascular surgeons, orthopedists, and podiatric surgeons.
- Cutting-Edge Advanced Wound Healing: We utilize and offer negative pressure wound therapy, skin grafting, tissue flaps, advanced dressings, and various other state-of-the-art techniques.
- Minimally Invasive Options: We constantly seek to begin with less invasive procedures to improve the patient’s recovery time and surgical outcome.
- Advanced Imaging Diagnosis: Sophisticated imaging and vascular testing are used to comprehensively evaluate blood flow, tissue damage, and infection levels.
- Tailored Engagement Strategy: Prioritizing patient comfort, education, and overall well-being begins from the first consultation and extends beyond treatment to ensure encouraging post-treatment follow-up engagement.
Conditions We Treat
Our primary focus in Specialized Management and treatment is directed towards the following conditions:
- Foot ulcers from diabetes.
- Non-healing chronic wounds.
- Peripheral artery disorder.
- Bone infection (osteomyelitis).
- Stasis venous ulcers.
- Arterial wounds lacking blood flow.
- Complications from surgical wounds.
- Limb injuries (traumatic).
- Bedsores/pressure sores.
- Soft tissue necrosis (necrotizing) infections.
Our Methods for Closing Complex Wounds
Texas MultiSpeciality Clinic has developed a unique strategy for flexible managed closures of complex wounds dependent on the depth, location, size, and their combination with underlying health factors. Our clinic employs the following:
Debridement of Wounds
- Removing infected: or dead parts of tissue allows for healthy tissues to proliferate. We perform scrubs using surgical and non-surgical methods to make the wound in bed suitable for closure.
- Flap Surgery : We cover large or deep wounds with tissue from the surrounding area. This method provides blood flow and enables healing to the affected area.
- Skin Grafting: Wounds that need split-thickness or full-thickness skin grafts usually cannot close independently. It is faster to heal and decreases the chance of infection when grafting is done.
- Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT): Also called vacuum-assisted closure, this technique pulls out fluids and nourishes blood circulation, promoting more effective and quicker wound healing.
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT): We may recommend HBOT in some cases to help oxygenate the wound to fight infection and assist healing.
Multidisciplinary Care Model
At Texas MultiSpecialty Clinic, limb salvage is a team effort, not a one-provider light touch fix. That’s why we have vascular surgeons, endocrinologists, infectious disease specialists, and rehab specialists. They all work together to improve your outcome. By managing all the factors, we minimize the chances of recurring issues while preserving the limb’s functionality.
Who Needs Limb Salvage Services?
Limb salvage and advanced wound care services are particularly important for:
- Susceptible diabetic individuals with diabetic foot disorders
- Trauma patients with complicated fractures (bone and soft tissue) and tissue damage or blood supply issues.
- Patients recovering from limb resections cancer surgery.
- Patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease along with other circulatory conditions.
- Patients with surgical wounds that do not heal.
You or someone close to you is advised to reach out to our clinic if amputation has come up as an option in your treatment plan. Do not hesitate.
What to Expect During Treatment
Texas MultiSpecialty Clinic follows a stepwise approach to limb salvage and wound care, incorporating compassion and empathy towards patients.
Step 1: Comprehensive Evaluation
We begin with comprehensive history taking, wound evaluation, radiology, and perfusion studies.
Step 2: Customised Treatment Plan
Following the assessment, we create a personalized treatment approach that combines surgery, pharmacological agents, and tailored wound management.
Step 3: Surgical or Non-Surgical Intervention
Implementing the optimal approach involves surgical techniques such as grafting and debriding supplemented with advanced wound management procedures.
Step 4: Ongoing Monitoring
Remotely tracking your milestones forms the basis of treatment, and supportive care is offered for other conditions, especially diabetes or vascular disease.
Step 5: Rehabilitation & Prevention
We take the appropriate measures to restore function by providing physical therapy and teaching you strategies to avoid complications from wounds.
Technology & Tools We Use
Our clinic has a wide range of the most modern technology for monitoring and treating wounds, including:
- Wound vacuums and NPWT devices
- Biologic dressings and cellular tissue products
- Hyperbaric oxygen chambers (in selected cases)
- Advanced imaging (Doppler ultrasound, CT angiography)
- Wound measurement and documentation tools
We are committed to offering you the best treatment and care as safely and effectively as possible.
Insurance & Appointments
We accept many major insurance plans and offer direct access appointments for urgent cases, often on the same or the following day. Early intervention is crucial, potentially preventing the loss of a limb.
For inquiries, you can reach us at 210-566-8332 or email us at info@texasmsc.com.
Reach Out to Texas Multi-Specialty Clinic Today If you or someone you know has a severe wound or is at risk of losing a limb, don’t wait any longer. Our Texas Multi-Specialty Clinic experts will gladly assist you with advanced limb salvage and complex wound closure procedures.