Recovery
Rehabilitation, psychology, and return to life
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measurement in burns spans generic instruments (SF-36, EQ-5D), burn-specific scales (BSHS-B, LIBRE, CARe Burn Scale), scar-specific and pediatric measures, and their psychometric validation. Generic health status is impaired long after…
Body image dissatisfaction is among the most consequential psychosocial sequelae of burn injury, predicting later depression, PTSD, and quality of life more reliably than burn size. Subjective appraisal of scarring and perceived stigmatization matter more than objective…
PTSD, depression, and anxiety are among the most common and durable sequelae of burn injury, reported across a wide prevalence range driven by instrument, threshold, and timing. Pre-burn psychiatric illness, female sex, pain, dissociation, and visible scarring predict outcome…
Most burn survivors adapt, and many report post-traumatic growth alongside any distress. Active problem-focused coping, optimism, self-efficacy, and social support track with better adjustment; avoidant coping tracks with worse. Burn size predicts adaptation weakly, while…
Burn 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…
- Functional outcomes and quality of life after burn injury
With mortality after burn now low, the question is what kind of life the survivor returns to. Function and quality of life improve steeply in the first six months then plateau below population norms…
- Range of motion and early mobilization in burn rehabilitation
Range-of-motion exercise and early mobilization are the motion side of burn rehabilitation, countering the contracture that scar, grafting, immobility, and muscle wasting drive after injury…
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…
- Pediatric burn survivor psychosocial and family outcomes
A child's burn injures the whole family. Children carry acute stress, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, body-image distress, and disrupted school re-entry past wound closure, while parents…
- Peer support, burn camps, and community reintegration
Burn survivors describe community reintegration, with its social anxiety and strain, as their single most important issue, and long-term adjustment depends on it. Peer support, support groups, and…
- Psychological interventions for burn survivors
Structured psychological therapies for the psychological adjustment of burn survivors, spanning cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness, dignity therapy…
- Return to Work, Employment, and Functional Recovery After Burn
Return to work after burn injury is a defining marker of recovery, with reported rates of roughly 66-72% returning to some employment and time off work often measured in months. Pre-injury employment…