What is a wound?

The skin is our body’s most accessible organ. As such, it’s very easy to damage or wound it.³ When you injure the skin, the body tissue loses its continuity. This can happen as the result of trauma, infection or some pathological process, such as inflammation.⁶

When the skin is injured or damaged, a wound is created. Once this happens, the body immediately begins to repair itself. It does this by re-establishing tissue integrity in order to restore the skin’s barrier function.⁴