Psychosocial Recovery, Pain, and Itch After Burn Injuries

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 327-345

  Wiechman, Shelley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn pain; Burns; Pruritus; Psychosocial adjustment

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CAPSAICIN; DAPSONE; DOXEPIN; EMLA; GABAPENTIN; ONDANSETRON; SILVER; STEROID;

BODY IMAGE; BREATHING; BURN; BURN PATIENT; COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IMAGERY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LASER SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MASSAGE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL APPEARANCE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUOTA SYSTEM; REHABILITATION CARE; REINFORCEMENT; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDERS; BURNS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PRURITUS; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 79957480081     PISSN: 10479651     EISSN: 15581381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmr.2011.01.005     Document Type: Review

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