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Effect of lower Limbs Rehabilitation on Burn Injured Patients' Outcomes During Emergency Phase

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Burn rehabilitation is comprehensive, complex and requires a multidisciplinary approach to optimize the patient's physical and psychosocial recovery related to burn. Aim: the study was made to evaluate the effect of lower limb rehabilitation on burn injured patients' outcomes (joint flexibility and muscle strength) during emergency phase. Design: a quasi-experimental design, study design was used to achieve the objectives of the study. Setting: The present study was conducted in burn unit at Assuit general hospital and Assuit university hospital. Subjects: purposive sample of 60 adults patients (males and females), they were divided into two equal groups (study and control). Tools: Patient assessment tool, joint flexibility assessment and muscle strength assessment. Results: This study was successed in minimizing muscles contracture to (6.67%) of study group versus (30.00%) of control group. Conclusion: Implementing the lower limb rehabilitation during emergency phase significantly improved the burn injured patient's outcomes (joint's flexibility and muscles strength). Recommendation: Rehabilitation exercises should be done as early as possible for patients with burn injury during emergency phase.

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10.21608/asnj.2019.69576

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Rehabilitation, Emergency Phase, Joint Flexibility & Patients' Outcomes

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Samia

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Ali

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Gamal

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Teacher, at Abnoub Secondary Nursing, Assiut, Egypt.

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Mogedda

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Mohny

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Mohamed

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Assistant Professor of Critical Care & Emergency Nursing Department Faculty of Nursing, Assuit University, Egypt.

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Youssef

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Hassan

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Saleh

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Professor of Plastic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

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Mona

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Ahmed

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Abd Elaziem

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Lecturer of Critical Care &Emergency Nursing Department Faculty of Nursing, Assuit University

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mona2006@aun.edu.eg

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7

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19

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9942

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2019-12-01

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2020-01-30

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2019-12-01

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90

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99

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2314-8845

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2682-3799

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Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal

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Effect of lower Limbs Rehabilitation on Burn Injured Patients' Outcomes During Emergency Phase

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22 Jan 2023