Effects of Visual Feedback Therapy on Post Burn Children

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Visual feedback therapy is a cheap, easy, and, most importantly, patient-directed treatment that may improve the recovery of hand motor functional skills. Visual feedback therapy consists of repeated bilateral, symmetrical movements in which the patient moves the affected body part as much as he/she could while observing the reflection.The hands account for less than 5 % of total body surface area. Many burns requiring hospitalization involve the upper extremity considered severe injuries by the American Burn Association and should be referred to specialized care centers to minimize sequella of thermal injury including nail deformities, hypertrophic scars, boutonniere deformity, digit loss, and contractures. Visual feedback therapy is a treatment method based on neuroplasticity of the brain.Although recent studies have demonstrated the benefit of visual feedback therapy for various diseases, research that applies visual feedback therapy to improve the restorative capability of hand function of patients with reduced hand function due to mutilated injury has not been reported yet.

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