Burns
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 659-664 , August 2010

Feasibility and potential effect of a low-cost virtual reality system on reducing pain and anxiety in adult burn injury patients during physiotherapy in a developing country

,Accepted 25 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.09.005

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