Skin defects, soft tissue damage,
and fractures often occur simultaneously
in severe trauma. Under current medical technology, fractures can
be quickly fixed by internal or external repair techniques, and early
functional exercises can be performed. However, skin defects heal
over a long time and can even be difficult to heal. Functional exercise
may cause cutting of fresh granulation to break and impair wound healing.
Functional exercise and wound healing seem to contradict each other.
In this study, an alginate hydrogel was developed. With self-healing
characteristics, the hydrogel tightly adhered to the wound and could
self-heal breaks in the gel caused by functional exercises. These
characteristics enable this hydrogel to be used in complex clinical
situations to solve sports rehabilitation and skin defect repair problems.
In addition, this hydrogel can slowly release strontium ions, promote
angiogenesis and collagen deposition in the wound, and quickly heal
the wound.