Recovery, Rehabilitation, and Return to Full Duty in a Military Population After a Recent Injury: Differences Between Lower-Extremity and Spine Injuries.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To compare readiness to return to duty in soldiers following recent lower-extremity versus spine injury. The secondary purposes were to provide normative data for the Selective Functional Movement Assessment Top Tier movements (SFMA-TTM) and assess the association between SFMA-TTM scores and future injury occurrence, comparing injuries of the lower extremity and thoracic/lumbar spine.

Methods

SFMA was rated by trained assessors on 480 U.S. Army soldiers within 2 weeks of being cleared to return to duty after recent lower-extremity or lumbar/thoracic injury. Participants were followed for 1 year to determine incidence of subsequent time-loss injury.

Results

Only 74.4% of soldiers felt 100% mission capable when returning to full duty (73.6% lower-extremity; 76.5

SUBMITTER: Rhon DI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8811499 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature