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PHYS THER
Vol. 75, No. 8, August 1995, pp. 767-768
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Burn Care


This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

To the Editor:

It was with great interest that I read the Johnson and Silverberg article "Serial Casting of the Lower Extremity to Correct Contractures During the Acute Phase of Burn Care" (April 1995). Articles about burn care are not prevalent in the physical therapy literature; thus, therapists outside of burn centers have difficulty obtaining information. In addition, I was impressed that a single-case report was being published in Physical Therapy, because it is precisely this kind of investigation that clinical therapists are able to carry out. I am concerned, however, about one of the messages contained in this particular article.

The authors state that the "initial rehabilitation evaluation was deferred secondary to [the patient's] unstable medical status until postburn day 8." Upon evaluation, the patient had plantar-flexion contractures of 45 degrees....


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Serial Casting of the Lower Extremity to Correct Contractures During the Acute Phase of Burn Care
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Physical Therapy 1995 75: 262-266. [Abstract] [PDF]





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