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Research Focus 1 – Existing Barriers to Successful Reintegration

Project 1: Promoting Adherence among Outpatients in Physical Rehabilitation Programs Rehabilitation for warfighters with orthopaedic trauma (including limb salvage / limb loss) has been structured at the military treatment facilities to allow for independence and progressive reintroduction in the civilian community or active duty. However, no studies to date have specifically targeted the issue of control and timing in the designed rehabilitation programs...

Research Focus 2 – Improvements to Pain Management Strategies

Project 4: Randomized, Double-blind, Comparative-effectiveness Study Comparing Epidural Steroid Injections to Gabapentin in Patients with Lumbosacral Radiculopathy The treatment of sciatica is challenging, since there are currently no reliably effective treatments. Despite dozens of placebo-controlled studies evaluating epidural steroid injections (ESI) and gabapentin, no head-to-head comparative-effectiveness studies have been conducted. This is...

Research Focus 3 – Application of New Technologies to Advance Rehabilitation and Performance Measures

Research Focus 3 – Application of New Technologies to Advance Rehabilitation and Performance Measures Project 6: Comparison of 3-D Gait Analysis Data Across Department of Defense Sites There are three centers of excellence for amputee care within the Department of Defense: the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center (San Antonio, TX), the Military Advanced Training Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center...

Research Focus 4 – Transfer of New Technology Interventions to Improve Functionality

Research Focus 4 – Transfer of New Technology Interventions to Improve Functionality Project 9: Optimization of Dynamic Ankle-Foot Orthosis Design for High Level Activity Performance Following Limb Salvage for Severe Lower Extremity Trauma In the largest study to date of civilian limb-threatening lower extremity trauma, the Lower Extremity Assessment Project (LEAP) found significant physical disability among patients who underwent limb salvage...

Research Focus 5 – Investigation of Metabolic Bone Disorders

Research Focus 5 – Investigation of Metabolic Bone Disorders Project 11: Establishing the Mineral Apposition Rate of Heterotopic Ossification for Prevention of Recurrence Heterotopic ossification (HO) is a pathological process characterized by ectopic bone growth in the musculature and periarticular regions following tissue injury and inflammation. Although HO may develop from rare genetic disorders, abnormal bone growth has been most frequently...

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