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  • Percentage Area Reduction (PAR) over 4 weeks is a proposed FDA-endorsed intermediate endpoint for more powerful study designs.
  • Investigating novel therapeutic endpoints and study designs is crucial for advancing wound care research.

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  • To evaluate the efficacy of intermittent neuromuscular electrostimulation (NMES) as an adjunct to multilayer compression for venous leg ulcers (VLUs).
  • To assess the utility of Percentage Area Reduction (PAR) as an intermediate endpoint in a within-subject controlled trial design.
  • To compare the healing rates of VLUs treated with compression alone versus compression plus NMES.

Main Methods:

  • A within-subject controlled study comparing 4-week PAR in VLU patients.
  • Phase 1: Multilayer compression therapy for 4 weeks.
  • Phase 2: Addition of NMES to multilayer compression for another 4 weeks; a control group received only compression.

Main Results:

  • Patients receiving NMES demonstrated a significant increase in VLU healing rate compared to compression alone.
  • The control group receiving only compression showed no significant change in healing rate.
  • Intermittent NMES of the common peroneal nerve proved effective in accelerating VLU healing.

Conclusions:

  • Intermittent NMES is a safe and effective adjuvant therapy for accelerating venous leg ulcer healing.
  • Percentage Area Reduction (PAR) is a valuable metric for wound healing intervention assessment.
  • The self-controlled trial design with PAR as an endpoint enables sensitive discrimination with fewer subjects and shorter trial durations.