Incorporating the prosthetic: Traumatic, limb-loss, rehabilitation and refigured military bodies

Messinger, Seth D.

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“…Individuals with traumatic limb amputations require extensive rehabilitation, and their recovery is influenced by a variety of medical, emotional, and social issues. 38,39 In a review of military service members injured in 2001-2006 (87% of these by explosive device), 5.2% of all serious injuries and 7.4% of major limb injuries underwent amputation. This rate is similar to that of previous conflicts (e.g., 8.3% in Vietnam).…”

Section: Blast-related Comorbiditiesmentioning

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Military traumatic brain injury: an examination of important differences^a

French

2010

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Traumatic brain injury, especially mild traumatic brain injury, is a common consequence of modern warfare. In the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, much attention has been devoted to blast as a "new" mechanism of brain injury. While the evidence for primary blast effects upon the central nervous system is limited and controversial, there are a number of aspects of blast-induced brain injury that may be different. These include high rates of sensory impairment, pain issues, and polytrauma. In addition, the emotional context in which the injury occurred must also be considered in understanding the clinical presentation of these patients. Successful treatment of these individuals must use a multidisciplinary approach focused on the varied conditions that occur in those injured.

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Section: Blast-related Comorbiditiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Military traumatic brain injury: an examination of important differences^a

French

2010

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…Veterans with one or more lost limbs have a number of complex needs: psychosocial issues, phantom pain, itching, wound and stump care, adjustment to the prosthesis, and motor relearning (Boudiab & Kolcaba, 2015). These veterans may no longer be able to perform typical personal and work activities and experience new identity, adaptions, social integration, and functioning post deployment (Messinger, 2009). The last phase of rehabilitation for an amputee can include advanced training for motor and vocational skills to regain the ability to be active and optimize functioning (Gajewski & Granville, 2006).…”

Section: Most Common Health Problems Treated and Reportedmentioning

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The Unique Health Needs of Post-9/11 U.S. Veterans

Waszak

Holmes²

2017

Workplace Health Saf

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This article applies a hazard-based approach to the identification of physical, mental, and psychosocial health needs of post-9/11 veterans. The weaponry, survival, and population of servicemen and women by the military have evolved over time, particularly during the post-9/11 era. It is evident that military hazards and potential exposures vary depending on not only the deployment era but also the specific location and role. Many individual factors may affect the development of health problems. Recent evidence-based literature about post-9/11 veterans' long-term complex health issues is summarized, so occupational health nurses can advocate for the provision of veteran-sensitive care.

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“…Another appeal to study movement appears in ethnographies of postcombat soldiers in the United States. This literature offers painful reminders that the lives people endure during and after an emergency are bound up in movements: of limbs, real and artificial; of labile diagnostic categories such as PTSD; and of the ebb and flow of caregiving of the injured by medical staff, colleagues, kin, friends, and strangers (MacLeish 2013;Messinger 2009Messinger , 2010Wool 2013;Wool and Messinger 2012). Though my own research is rooted in a different place (a casualty ward in Mumbai) and in a different analytic frame (how moving through a city is deadly even as it is necessary to live), I share with these scholars an interest in how movements constitute the lived dilemmas of trauma, and how that which moves around and through an unresolved wound can easily flicker between the concrete and illusory.…”

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Shifting Gears: Triage and Traffic in Urban India

Solomon

2017

Med Anthropol Q

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While studies of triage in clinical medical literature tend to focus on the knowledge required to carry out sorting, this article details the spatial features of triage. It is based on participation observation of traffic-related injuries in a Mumbai hospital casualty ward. It pays close attention to movement, specifically to adjustments, which include moving bodies, changes in treatment priority, and interruptions in care. The article draws on several ethnographic cases of injury and its aftermath that gather and separate patients, kin, and bystanders, all while a triage medical authority is charged with sorting them out. I argue that attention must be paid to differences in movement, which can be overlooked if medical decision-making is taken to be a static verdict. The explanatory significance of this distinction between adjustment and adjudication is a more nuanced understanding of triage as an iterative, spatial process.

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Incorporating the prosthetic: Traumatic, limb-loss, rehabilitation and refigured military bodies

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Military traumatic brain injury: an examination of important differences^a

Military traumatic brain injury: an examination of important differences^a

The Unique Health Needs of Post-9/11 U.S. Veterans

Shifting Gears: Triage and Traffic in Urban India

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Military traumatic brain injury: an examination of important differencesa

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The Unique Health Needs of Post-9/11 U.S. Veterans

Shifting Gears: Triage and Traffic in Urban India

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Military traumatic brain injury: an examination of important differences^a

Military traumatic brain injury: an examination of important differences^a