Editorial

Abstract

I recently participated in a symposium/workshop entitled �Wound Care � striving for the balance� where I delivered a lecture with the same title. The topic related to the balance of wound �preparers� (MMPs) and the wound �finishers� (growth factors). Much of that talk is included in the first article in this edition of WHSA entitled �Deconstructing the Chronic Wound�.

In that same vein WHSA strives to maintain a �balance� between those experienced in the field of wound healing and those that have just been introduced to it. I believe this edition accomplishes that balance.