Overview of axial skeleton injuries: burden of disease.

摘要: Axial skeletal injury and related illness is a major cause of medical disability force attrition in deployed service members. Predeployment identification at-risk personnel unreliable. Risk axial or during deployment heterogeneous. Major spinal trauma casualties are uncommon, accounting for 1% casualties, usually to battle injuries. These injuries often associated with multiple system/anatomic Spinal cord account 18% persons battle-related injury. Non-battle spine pain, that is, back neck area pain not trauma, significant problem, 40% all combat casualty evacuation some years. Personnel due highly variable by unit exposure, including psychological exposure. Return-to-duty rates both traumatic atraumatic poor (≤15%); this rate predicted comorbidities.