Table 1.

Prevalence of peripheral neuropathy following burn injury.

Study	Year	Study Type	Findings
Margherita et al.	1995	Prospective	At 6 weeks, peripheral neuropathy persistent in 27% of patients.
Hayes et al.	2002	Prospective	After 6 months, 78% of patients still had peripheral neuropathy.
			After 12 months, 56% of patients still had peripheral neuropathy.
Schneider et al.	2006	Retrospective	Of the patients with peripheral neuropathy, improvement in symptoms was noted starting around 7 ± 0.8 months.
Wu et al.	2013	Retrospective	The majority of the patients reported subjective improvement of symptoms (82%), while 18% of patients showed no improvement by 4 months.