Burns
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 19-25 , February 2012

A review on static splinting therapy to prevent burn scar contracture: Do clinical and experimental data warrant its clinical application?

  • H.J. Schouten

      Affiliations

    • Association of Dutch Burn Centres, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
    • Burn Centre, Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
    • Physiotherapy department, Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Burn Centre, Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 725613748.
    • ,
  • M.K. Nieuwenhuis

      Affiliations

    • Association of Dutch Burn Centres, Burn Centre Martini Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • P.P.M. van Zuijlen

      Affiliations

    • Association of Dutch Burn Centres, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
    • Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
    • Burn Centre, Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
    • Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

,Accepted 19 June 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2011.06.003

Burns
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 19-25 , February 2012

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