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To determine the effectiveness of different modalities of exercise and to evaluate the safety of exercise-based interventions post-burns.

Six databases were searched from inception to October 2017 using “burn,” “exercise” and synonyms as keywords. Relevant authors, key journals and reference lists of included studies were hand-searched.

Articles reporting on exercise interventions in patients post-burn and considering physical, physiological or psychological outcomes were considered. Two authors independently screened 2253 records and selected 19 articles for inclusion. The quality of the evidence was assessed at the study level and at the outcome level.

Unbiased effect size estimators (pooled Hedges’ g) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated if there were two or more trials with homogeneous outcomes. There were no significant differences post …