Device and method for enhanced wound treatment

An apparatus for facilitating the healing of a wound on a limb of a body of a subject, the apparatus comprising:

• (a) a wound treatment assembly including:
• (i) a wound cover adapted to cover an area above the wound;
• (ii) a sealing arrangement, associated with said cover, adapted to contact and at least partially seal a volume beneath said cover from an ambient environment;
• (iii) a vacuum mechanism fluidly communicating with said volume, and adapted to produce a sub-atmospheric pressure between about 0.01 and 0.95 bar, absolute, within said volume;
• (b) a muscle contraction device having at least a first electrode and a second electrode, each said electrode adapted to operatively contact the limb;
• (c) a control unit, adapted to connect to a power supply and operatively connected to each said electrode, said control unit further adapted to provide, via said electrodes, a sequence of electrical impulses to neural points associated with the limb, whereby muscle tissue associated with said neural points contracts to effect a localized increase in a flow of blood through a blood vessel in the limb,
• said control unit operatively connected to said wound treatment assembly and further adapted to control an operation of said treatment assembly.