“…This contrasts to Active Duty service in the U.S. Armed Forces, which involves jobs that are physical in nature and often includes regimented daily exercise. Additionally, the burden of medical morbidity and pain in the veteran population may limit physical activity in OIF/OEF veterans using VA, because these veterans have been shown to represent a lower socioeconomic group, have greater comorbidity, and have a greater prevalence of overweight and obesity than veterans not using VA [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][33][34]. The frequency of free-text responses indicating pain, depression, or disability in place of a favorite physical activity (n = 24) likely underrepresents the true prevalence, but taken together with the large percentage of participants endorsing pain or health as a limitation for physical activity (52% and 39%, respectively), it would be consistent with this national trend among VA users ( Table 3).…”