Healing Trajectory Explained: Healing, Stalling, and Worsening Wounds
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A closer look at how a healing trajectory classifies wound change over time and how clinicians can use each status to review the plan.
A single measurement tells you size. A trajectory tells you direction. Healing Trajectory reads repeated measurements and labels the trend so the change is easy to see and show.
The three statuses
- Healing: the wound is getting smaller across visits.
- Stalling: change has slowed or stopped.
- Worsening: the wound is getting bigger.
What feeds the trend
Length, width, and area captured from a photo with markerless imaging, the same way at each visit. Clean inputs make the trend more reliable. See AI-powered wound imaging.
What a status prompts you to do
A stalling label is a prompt to ask why: offloading, perfusion, infection, or the plan itself. A worsening label calls for a second look at the plan. The software doesn't make the decision. You do.
Showing the change
Every visit stays on record, so you can show a patient or colleague how the wound changed, such as a wound 37 percent smaller than the last visit in the sample chart. Explore the healing dashboard and wound healing software.
For more on interpretation, read reading trajectories without guesswork.