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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4231</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.132214</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>&#13;
	Effect of Combining Vacuum Massage and Shock Wave Therapy on the Post Burn Scar&#13;
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</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Elshazly</surname><given-names>Mahmoud</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ahmed</surname><given-names>Abdelrazak A.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sarhan</surname><given-names>Mohammed Ali</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>20</day><month>11</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>2)</volume><issue/><fpage>68</fpage><lpage>72</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>&#13;
	Introduction: Post burns hypertrophic scar is the most serious problem with the burned patient. There are different physical therapy modalities used in the rehabilitation of post-burn scars as pressure therapy, splinting stretching exercises, mechanical massage, and shock wave therapy. Aim: our study was applied to detect the efficacy of combining treatment vacuum massage and shockwave on the post-burn scar. Methods: Forty patients with post-burn scars, age 20-40 years old randomly divided into 2 groups. study group (group A) received manual physical therapy program in addition to combining therapy of shockwave and vacuum massage 3 times per week for 4 weeks, control group (group B) received manual physical therapy program) plus shockwave therapy, 3 times per week for 4 weeks. Results: Skin thickness and VSS decreased significantly in both groups after treatment compared with before treatment but the percent of decreasing of skin thickness and VSS in group A (44.25 and 46.45% respectively) was more than in group B (23.98 and 29.41% respectively). Conclusion: Shock wave treatment has a positive effect on the post-burn scar treatment but the positivity increase if combined with vacuum therapy.&#13;
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</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Vacuum therapy</kwd><kwd> Massage</kwd><kwd> Shock wave</kwd><kwd> Post-burn scar</kwd><kwd> Combining therapy</kwd><kwd> Hypertrophic scar</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
