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Think of the cells in your body as “batteries” # passing an electronic current from one to another. If a person were to suffer an injury of some sort breaking the connection between the different cells, the disruption causes your body to focus on the injured area for healing. Healing wounds with electricity.

In what amounts to the modern rediscovery of an old medical curiosity, the finding raises hopes for revolutionary treatments to patch up injured patients in hours instead of days.

In preliminary lab tests, researchers showed that by controlling the weak electrical fields that arise naturally at wound sites, they could direct cells to either close or open up a wound at the flick of a switch. By making the cells move faster, they were able to speed up wound healing by 50%.

Does the thought of healing wounds with electricity go right over your head? It did for me. Images of the classic Frankenstein movie danced in my head as thoughts of harnessing electricity to heal wounds sounded all too bizarre.