Recovery
Rehabilitation, psychology, and return to life
Burn rehabilitation and functional outcomes
ModerateBurn rehabilitation spans the continuum from intensive-care positioning through outpatient exercise, scar management, and community reintegration. The dominant clinical bounds are contracture and pruritus on the somatic side and return to work or school on the participation…
Psychosocial, quality-of-life, and long-term survivor outcomes
Burn survivors carry a long arc of psychosocial sequelae after physical wounds close. Post-traumatic stress symptoms, depression, anxiety, body-image distress, social-reintegration friction, and sustained quality-of-life deficits dominate the long-term picture; family members…