Non-Diabetic Ulcer Clinic
Wheelchair Pressure Injuries
Hours of sitting concentrate the body's weight on a few small areas. For wheelchair users, that unrelieved pressure can silently break down skin over the sitting bones into deep injuries.
Wheelchair pressure injuries are wounds over the sitting bones, tailbone and hips caused by unrelieved sitting pressure. Pressure redistribution with the right cushion, repositioning routines and staged wound care heals them and keeps them from returning.
What Are Wheelchair Pressure Injuries?
Sitting concentrates most body weight onto the ischial tuberosities, the bones you sit on, plus the tailbone and hips. When sensation or mobility is reduced, the warning discomfort never comes, and the compressed skin quietly dies from beneath. The injury often looks small on the surface while extending deep toward bone.
Pressure injury: damage to skin and underlying tissue caused by sustained pressure, usually over a bony point.
Who Is at Highest Risk?
- Wheelchair users with spinal cord injury or reduced sensation
- Anyone sitting many hours without weight-shift breaks
- Users of worn-out or wrong-type cushions
- Patients with moisture exposure, poor nutrition or diabetes
How Does EDFC Treat and Prevent Them?
Healing starts with taking pressure off the wound, using prescribed cushions and repositioning schedules from our offloading team. Then staged wound care removes dead tissue and rebuilds the base. Deep injuries may need flap reconstruction, and every patient leaves with a personal prevention routine.
Cost and Practical Help in Surat
Costs range from simple dressing care to reconstruction for deep wounds, always itemised clearly beforehand. If you or a family member uses a wheelchair and any skin over the seat area looks red or broken, get it checked now, because early injuries heal many times faster.
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This page is for education only and is not a substitute for an in-person diagnosis. Please consult Dr. Ashutosh Shah or a qualified clinician for advice specific to your condition.