Patients can learn how to better react to acute and chronic pain.
Burn injuries lead to 1200 people (including 300 children) seeking emergency care every day in the United States. Burns cause physical pain, short and long-term psychological distress, and can also lead to long-term physical impairment because of scarring … The pain associated with burns can be caused by the injury, but sometimes there is even greater pain caused by the repeated cleansing and dressing of the wound … The circumstances that lead to the development of burns and related to wound care are sometimes so overwhelming that they lead patients to develop major mental illness including anxiety disorder … read more