The Role of US Military Physical Therapists During Recent Combat Campaigns

Josef H. Moore; Stephen L. Goffar; Deydre S. Teyhen; Timothy L. Pendergrass; John D. Childs; James R. Ficke

doi:10.2522/ptj.20120136

Tables

Table 1.

Overview of Settings in Which Military Medicine Is Conducted

^a The battle frontlines during Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) were unlike any modern conflict in that the enemy lines were ill defined. This created a more unstable and hostile environment.

Table 2.

Descriptive Data Comparing Outpatient Physical Therapy Workload With All Outpatient Workload From Combat Support Hospitals During Operation Iraqi Freedom From July 2004 to December 2010

Table 3.

Musculoskeletal Injury by Body Part Managed by Combat Support Hospitals Physical Therapists

Table 4.

Descriptive Data Comparing Physical Therapy Workload With Total Workload for Physical Therapists Assigned to Brigade Combat Teams During Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom From August 2005 to March 2011