Burn Injury
Exercise After Burn Injury
Exercise After Burn Injury consists of a suite of resources to help individuals with burn injury understand the importance of exercise after injury.
Factsheets
A burn injury causes stress to your body. Your heart and lungs may not work as well as before. Your muscles and bones may not be as strong. Remember that muscles get weak or smaller when they are not used—being on bed rest probably caused you to lose some muscle. For each day of bed rest people can…
Factsheets
Many factors may cause body image concerns after a burn injury. These include how a person feels about his or her burns; flawed coping strategies; and a person’s gender, mental health history, and support network.
Factsheets
Some burn injury survivors have changes in their appearance. They may worry about how people will react to them when they leave the hospital and go out in public.
Slideshows
View our slide show on understanding how exercise can enhance recovery and quality of life after burn injury.
Slideshows
View our slide show on understanding and improving body image after a burn injury.
Slideshows
View our slide show on social interactions after a burn injury.
Videos
Our featured video highlights three burn survivors who share the profound experience of beginning an exercise routine after burn injury. It also includes the perspectives of health care professionals at the Boston-Harvard Burn Injury Model System Center, who explain the importance of and strategies…