Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Physical Therapy for Surgery

Background: A burn is a type of injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or radiation. Purpose: to investigate the effect of isokinetic training on gait response in lower limb burned patients. Subjects and methods: Sixty patients were recruited from outpatient clinic of faculty of physical therapy, and El Kasr El-Ainy hospital in Cairo, all patients signed a consent form before starting; they wer randomly allocated into 2 equal groups and treated for 8 weeks as follow: Group A (Experimental group): 30 patients complaining of 2nd degree lower limb burns and treated with traditional physical therapy plus isokinetic training. Group B (Control group): 30 patients complaining of 2nd degree lower limb burns and treated with traditional physical therapy. Results: The results showed no significant difference in step length either in affected or non-affected limb among and between groups (P<0,05), but when looking to isokinetic group step time there was significant decrease (34.36%) in affected limb (P=0.000) and significant increase (11.34%) in non-affected limb (P=0.007) and step width of the same group it could be found that affected step width increase (62.26%) significantly (P=0.015) while non affected step width decrease (91.3%) significantly (P=0.000) and when looking to control group there is no significance regarding step time and width

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