Lead outpatient burn therapist at UC San Diego Health, Ricci Kuhlken, BSPT holds a physical therapy degree from California State University Long Beach and works the 200 W Arbor Dr Hillcrest campus in 92103 — the regional burn center serving San Diego and Imperial counties. Post-burn rehabilitation drives the caseload here: contracture prevention, custom pressure garment fitting, scar mobilization, and joint range-of-motion restoration following split-thickness skin grafting, often coordinated with the plastic and reconstructive surgery side of Pacific Coast Surgical Group on the same medical corridor. Caseload also covers complex traumatic injuries including crush wounds, multi-extremity fractures, and degloving injuries where soft-tissue healing must be sequenced against bony rehabilitation milestones. Mind-body movement work for chronic pain after burn rehab sometimes branches into somatic education at Feldenkrais San Diego when conventional range-of-motion progression plateaus. The deepest files on the Arbor Drive campus handle pediatric and adult burn survivors moving from acute graft protection through years-long scar maturation, with athletic return-to-sport programming layered onto the final phase for patients aiming to recover competitive function.