Community Regional Medical Center opens new burn therapy gym

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Diego, a pain diligent astatine Community Regional Medical Center, suffered pain injuries to his legs earlier this month.

"The symptom is strongest erstwhile I get retired of bed," Diego said. It hurts the astir erstwhile I enactment my feet connected the floor."

He told Action News helium has to hold 10 minutes earlier helium tin dilatory commencement to walk.

But taking steps helps easiness the symptom helium feels successful his legs. He is besides receiving carnal therapy arsenic portion of his treatment.

Diego says helium sustained burns portion helium was inspecting a car for a friend, erstwhile a escaped ligament connected the crushed unexpectedly sparked and caught his pants connected fire.

"It looked awful," Diego said. "You could spot close done the skin."

Since then, he's been recovering astatine the infirmary for implicit 20 days. To assistance heal patients similar Diego, Community Regional Medical Center opened up its marque caller Burn Therapy Gym.

The installation includes weights, an workout ball, and a therapy bed.

"Prior to this country being implemented, our pain patients either had their therapies successful their ain country oregon they were taken down to the gym passim the full hospital," said Dr. Nicole Kopori, the Burn Medical Director astatine CRMC, "which exposes them to imaginable infections oregon different patients."

The Burn Therapy Gym is simply a caller summation to CRMC's Leon S. Peters Burn Center, and it was a task years successful the making.

A generous donation from the Lemoore Volunteer Fire Department helped crook the thought into a reality. Dr. Kopori said this installation is pivotal successful betterment for pain survivors.

"You cannot unrecorded without your ain skin," said Dr. Kopori. "You fundamentally request your tegument to survive. The tegument is liable for warring disconnected infections and controlling fluids. It gives you that cosmetic, what you look like, your individuality and helps with movement."

CRMC is the lone broad pain halfway betwixt Sacramento and Los Angeles.

It tin instrumentality respective years to retrieve from a pain injury. The pain therapy gym volition assistance not lone patients get stronger, but marque their tegument tougher.

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