Purpose of the Work. While medicine typically proceeds in a sequential fashion based on primary symptoms, sometimes relying on a parallel, mechanism-of-injurybased approach is advantageous, particularly when the mechanism of injury is associated with a variety of known sequelae. This article describes an example of a mechanism-of-injury-based program, namely, a Blast Injury Program at the James...

Purpose of the Work. The review examines techniques of performance analysis in energy storage and return (ESAR) prosthetic feet, synthesizes clinical study results reported in the literature, suggests a technically accurate and common terminology, and proposes a novel method of foot classification for use in prosthetic research, design, and prescription. Procedures. An array of techniques has b...

Purpose of the Work. This study assessed pain characteristics in veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI), including prevalence, duration, frequency, exacerbating factors, severity, quality, body areas affected, and effect on daily activities. Subjects and Procedures. Veterans with SCI completed a pain questionnaire and other measures during a telephone survey. Results. Of the participants, 76% r...

objective: the aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between marital satisfaction with psychological health in women whose husbands had either suffered from psychiatric problems or been exposed to chemical warfare during iraq-iran imposed war. method: participants were selected from the war-affected women in mazandaran province in north of iran whose husbands had either suffe...