Effects of Visual Feedback Therapy on Post Burn Children

In experimental group individuals will receive visual feedback therapy and Conventional rehabilitation therapy. In visual feedback therapy, bilateral method is used to receive the visual feedback from the mirror. This visual feedback therapy consists of the following parts as the patient is asked to follow the involved hand that did the mimicking while the non-involved side will be performing wrist flexion, wrist extension, ulnar deviation, radial deviation, supination, pronation, and closing hand and opening hand.In conventional therapy, Patients are given a rest time of 20 seconds in each activity and a 1-minute break in each segment in order to reduce fatigue of the noninvolved hand. The treatment will be applied by the therapist standing at the side of the patient. Then technique will be applied according to subject's tolerance for duration of 15 minutes in each sitting. This treatment protocol will be 5 times/week for 4 weeks in the hospital setting.

In control group individuals will receive only conventional therapy. In conventional therapy, Patients are instructed to perform a sandbag and hand grip exercise with a resistive exercise for the non-involved side. At last, patients are instructed to perform a moving small object (ball of wool) and card flip operation to induce wrist and finger movements as functional activities. Patients are given a rest time of 20 seconds in each activity and a 1-minute break in each segment in order to reduce fatigue of the non involved hand. The treatment will be applied by the therapist standing at the side of the patient. Then technique will be applied according to subject's tolerance for duration of 15 minutes in each sitting. .This treatment protocol will be 5 times/week for 4 weeks in the hospital setting.