American Occupational Therapy Association
Military Occupational Therapy Helps Wounded Warriors and Civilians Alike
Published in Lab Business Week, May 13th, 2007
Amputations, combat stress and traumatic brain injuries are just a few of the war injuries that Major Matthew St. Laurent has treated as a U.S. Army occupational therapist. Although he is currently assigned to a duty post at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the New Hampshire native also has served on the front lines of the war in Iraq, providing rehabilitative services to both soldiers and civilians at a combat support hospital in Mosul.
"Battlefield medicine is saving more lives than ever before, but these people still have devastating injuries to recover from," said St. Laurent. "Modern warfare is creating injuries and combinations of injuries called polytrauma that...
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Source: Lab Business Week (2007-05-13)
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