The Airlift Research Foundation, based in Pittsburgh, is leading the charge to fund orthopedic research and to increase public awareness of traumatic war injuries of military and civilian survivors worldwide. Unique to the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, approximately 82 percent of all war injuries involve extremities.
As more military troops return home, a growing number have sustained traumatic orthopedic extremity injuries, including fractures and amputation. Unfortunately, orthopedic injury research has not kept pace with this increase, leaving these men and women to face a new battle of recovery, rehabilitation and re-entry to civilian life.
Research funding addresses the protection of limbs, treatment of injuries in the field, rehabilitation and quality of life-research that has immediate benefits for war survivors and future benefits for all orthopedic trauma patients. Raising public awareness ensures that both the military and the public understand the enormous impact of extremity trauma, both in the field and at home.
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