Study: Lower-Limb Injuries Plague U.S. Soldiers in Iraq

A study released in advance of the American Podiatric Medical
Association’s (APMA) 95th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, reveals nearly 68 percent of all U.S. soldiers
wounded in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts are a result of
extremity injuries, and nearly 22 percent of those injuries involve
the foot and/or ankle. To meet the war’s demands of lower-limb
injuries, podiatric physicians are on the surgical front lines for
the first time ever. No longer relegated to non-critical cases,
podiatric physicians have seen their role expanded to match their
medical and surgical training.