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Abstract :

Ilizarov ring fixators are usually applied for ailments such as open fractures, infected nonunions, malunions, growth disturbances, and angular deformities. Moreover, such conditions are often complicated by factors such as concomitant infection, compromised soft tissue cover, compromised vascularity, and disturbed metabolic milieu.[¹²]

Treatment of such conditions often requires prolonged external fixations and pin site care plays a vital role in the prevention of infection, increasing longevity of fixation, keeping soft tissues supple, and increasing compliance to weight-bearing regimen.[³] Compliance to pin site care has prudent correlation with surgical outcome. Due to prolonged external fixation periods, usually home-based self-care of pin sites and frame assembly is prescribed to the patient rather than hospital-based care.[⁴]