A physiotherapy rehabilitation programme for patient with thermal burn injury: A case report

Abstract

Burns is one of the most usual and deadly injuries to the human body. About 450000 people suffered from burn injuries in a year, out of which 86% of cases are thermal burn injuries, 4% are electric types of burns, 4% are chemical burns and the remaining 6% are other types of burn injuries. Almost 8 lakh people per year need to be hospitalized for the treatment of burn injury, out of them, 2.8 lakh people become disabled due to burning injury. In this scenario, we report a 48-year-old male who received a thermal burn while doing household chores. He was taken to the local hospital immediately after the trauma. On the next day, he was then referred to a tertiary care hospital for further specific burn management. Where he was assessed and diagnosed with a 45% thermal burn injury case and management was started accordingly. The patient was referred to the physiotherapy unit for further including thorough assessment and management via acute phase, sub-acute phase and maturation phase was found to be very effective on the general mobility, strength and functional performance of the patient.