ABSTRACT
Objective To explore the effect of family visit and nursing intervention in promoting the re-habilitation of thoracolumbar fracture patients. Methods 115 patients with thoracohmbar fracture were divid-ed into the study greup(60 cases) and the control group(55 cases) by random hospitalization number. Patients in the study group were given regularly rehabilitation guidance initiatively at home by doctors and nurses for 6 months since discharge, the control group received conventional discharge guidance. Results After the inter-vention, the two groups showed significant difference in the functional rehabilitation, awareness rate of disease-related knowledge, mastering rate of relevant skills, incidence rate of complication, satisfaction degree with nursing. Conclusions Regular family visit and nursing intervention by the doctors and nurses can not only teach patients relative functional exercise methods, promote the physical rehabilitation of limbs, reduce inci-dence of complications and solve the problem of lack of care support after discharge from hospital effectively.