Zhou YQ, Zhou JY, Luo GX, Tan JL. Effects of early rehabilitation in improvement of paediatric burnt hands function. World J Clin Cases 2021; 9(32): 9741-9751 [PMID: 34877313 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i32.9741]
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Jiang-Lin Tan, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Institute of Burn Research, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injuries, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Disease Proteomics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), No. 30 Gao Tanyan Street, Sha Pingba District, Chongqing 400038, China. jianglintan@aliyun.com
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Rehabilitation
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Retrospective Study
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World J Clin Cases. Nov 16, 2021; 9(32): 9741-9751 Published online Nov 16, 2021. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i32.9741
Effects of early rehabilitation in improvement of paediatric burnt hands function
Ya-Qin Zhou, Jun-Yi Zhou, Gao-Xing Luo, Jiang-Lin Tan
Ya-Qin Zhou, Jun-Yi Zhou, Gao-Xing Luo, Jiang-Lin Tan, Institute of Burn Research, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injuries, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Disease Proteomics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), Chongqing 400038, China
Author contributions: Zhou YQ and Zhou JY analyzed and interpreted the patient data, they contributed equally to this work; Luo GX performed the systematic rehabilitation treatment; Tan JL performed the rehabilitation program and wrote the manuscript; All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Supported bythe State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burn and Combined Injury, No. SKL11201802; and Chongqing Basic Research and Frontier Exploration Project, No. cstc2017jcyjAX0242.
Institutional review board statement: This retrospective study was approved by the Ethical Committee in the First Affiliated Hospital of Third Military Medical University. All the patients’ information was kept confidential.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no competing interests, and all authors should confirm its accuracy.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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Corresponding author: Jiang-Lin Tan, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Institute of Burn Research, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injuries, Chongqing Key Laboratory for Disease Proteomics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), No. 30 Gao Tanyan Street, Sha Pingba District, Chongqing 400038, China. jianglintan@aliyun.com
Received: June 3, 2021 Peer-review started: June 3, 2021 First decision: July 5, 2021 Revised: May 26, 2021 Accepted: September 7, 2021 Article in press: September 7, 2021 Published online: November 16, 2021 Processing time: 159 Days and 18.1 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: This is a retrospective study to evaluate the efficacy of early rehabilitation management of paediatric burnt hands. Hands are one of the most common burn sites in children. Hypertrophic scar contractures in hands after wound healing result in further reductions in their range of motion (ROM), motility, and fine motor activities. In order to investigate the situation of hand function in burned children with rehabilitation, we analyzed the demographic and medical information in these burned children and compared the efficacies of early rehabilitation and late rehabilitation for children with hand burns. We found that in the early intervention group, 38.5% of the patients showed significant improvement in the active ROM, while in the late group, 69.2% of the patients showed no significant improvement. Hand function improvement in burned children was negatively correlated with the time from onset to posttraumatic rehabilitation intervention, while the length of rehabilitation stay was positively correlated with the improvement of hand function.
