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Burn Scar Massage Therapy
Massage has many benefits for burn recovery, such as reducing anxiety, increasing blood flow, reducing edema caused by damage to the lymphatic system, and in some cases returning feeling to areas that were lacking in sensation. Burn Scar Massage helps the survior by reintergration of touch into lives of people who now shun human contact.
Massage has many benefits as reducing edema, Help increase lymphatic drainage, anxiety, increasing blood flow and returning feeling to areas that had lost sensation(s).
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Resources
American Burn Association, www.ameriburn.org.
Blakeney, Patricia, Ph.D. and Creson, Daniel, M.D., Ph.D. “Psychological and Physical Trauma: Treating the Whole Person,” http://maic.jmu.edu/JOURNAL/6.3/focus/blakeneyCreson/blakeneyCreson.htm.
Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors, www.phoenix-society.org.
Shriners Hospitals for Children, www.shrinershq.org.
Touch Research Institute, www.miami.edu/touch-research.
Vanderbilt, Shirley. Rising from the Ashes: Easing the Healing Path for Burn Patients. Massage & Bodywork 2002 December/January 118-120.
