Military Healthcare West

Physical therapy and rehabilitation initiatives are some of the most pertinent topics for military medical professionals to explore. Given advancements in technology, armor, and medicine, less than 5% of soldiers die from wounds sustained in combat. This is an extraordinarily encouraging statistic, but it also means that the military healthcare system must care for an unprecedented number of wounded warriors.

Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and the Global War on Terror have left a new generation of soldiers with complex injuries. These complex injuries require complex physical therapy and rehabilitation initiatives to offer warriors the best chance at recovery, including the opportunity to return to active duty service.

Military Healthcare West will focus on education of the major issues rehabilitation professionals are dealing with in the military. The main areas of learning opportunity will be prosthetics, pain management, vocational rehabilitation, patient compliance, spinal cord injury, and polytrauma and blast injury, and a dedicated focus day on traumatic brain injury. Medical professionals will benefit from unique interactive opportunities such as site visits, equipment demos, and interactive workshops. Please join us in San Diego at the premier military rehabilitation training summit of the year.