title: The wrist in axillary burns--a forgotten focus of concern.
abstract: Need for splinting of the wrist in axillary burns is a question of great importance especially when there is no marked burns on the wrist and hand. This article presents various potential problems due to non-splinting of the wrist, various promising solutions for those problems and a better way of splinting a client with axillary burns. Modification in axillary splinting will definitely lead to a rewarding upshot in increasing the client compliance with no major complications not only in managing axillary burns but also in managing an array of disease conditions with shoulder limitations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore 632004, Tamil Nadu, India. manigandan93@yahoo.com
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Manigandan
authors.forename: Ashish K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Venugopal
authors.forename: Shiby
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ninan
authors.forename: Reboy E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Cherian
mesh_terms: D001365:Axilla; D002056:Burns / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005542:Forearm; D006801:Humans; D013165:Splints; D014955:Wrist Joint