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Patients who suffer hand burns are at a high contracture risk, partly due to numerous cutaneous functional units, or contracture risk areas, located within the hand. Patients who undergo split-thickness skin grafting are often immobilized postoperatively for graft protection. Recent practice at our burn center includes an early range of motion (EROM) following hand grafting to limit unnecessary immobilization. The purpose of this study was to determine whether EROM is safe to perform after hand grafting and if there is any clinical benefit. This retrospective, matched case–control study of adults compared patients who received EROM to subjects who received the standard 3 to 5 days of postoperative immobilization. Patients were evaluated for graft loss and range of motion. Seventy-one patients were included in this study: 37 EROM patients and 34 matched controls. Six patients experienced minor graft loss, three of these were not attributable to EROM. All graft loss was less than 1 cm and none required additional surgery. Significantly more patients who received EROM achieved full-digital flexion by the first outpatient visit (25/27 = 92.6% vs 15/22 = 68.2%; P = .028). Performing EROM does not cause an increase in graft loss. All areas of graft loss from the EROM group healed without intervention. There appears to be a benefit to EROM since there was a significant improvement in the patients’ ability to make a full fist at initial outpatient follow-up. Additional prospective analysis is needed to examine the true clinical utility of EROM in the hand and other contracture-prone areas.

Safety of Early Postoperative Range of Motion in Burn Patients With Newly Placed Hand Autografts: A Pilot Study