Burns Laser Clinical Trial
Official title:
Effects of Pressure Garments With and Without Low Level Laser Therapy on Hypertrophic Hand Scar in Children With Burn
Burns are type of injury that affect the skin or other tissues and are typically caused by acute trauma, including thermal sources, electricity, chemicals, friction, or radiation. Thermal burns are frequently caused by exposure to high temperature solids or liquids, as well as flames. The epidermis is the only layer of skin affected by superficial burns (sometimes known as "first degree" burns). Blistering is a common symptom of partial thickness (second degree) burns, which damage both the epidermis and dermis.
This study will include patients with age 2-10 & having burns on hands and develop scars will be recruited through Randomized Controlled trial in which convenience sampling technique will be used. Two groups will be formed in which participants will be divided by lottery method. Group A which will be treated by low level laser therapy with pressure garment (8-10hrs a day) and group B which will receive low level LASER therapy (422-800nm) without pressure garment only for the duration of 6 weeks (3 days in a week with 20-30 minutes per session). Vancouver Scar Scale and PSOAS tool will be used. The result after statistical analysis will either show both treatments equally effective or not. Data will be calculated before and after treatment with the help of outcome measure tools. Results will be analyzed on SPSS. ;