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In the context of trauma, rehabilitation plays a critical yet often underestimated role. While life-saving measures have advanced significantly, the growing number of trauma survivors face profound health burdens and life-altering injuries.
This concise guide highlights the importance of physical, mental and psychosocial recovery, emphasising the need for engagement with patients to achieve the best outcomes. The UK Defence Medical Services and their partners have demonstrated the positive effects of rehabilitation at the level not only of the individual patient, but at a national level. With such care, patients gain their best possible function, contribute to society to a greater extent and reduce the ever-increasing burdens on the UK National Health Service. The military experience reflected in this book describes a comprehensive rehabilitation framework that is applicable to all trauma patients in need of long-term rehabilitation.
Trauma services worldwide are increasingly preventing loss of life, and the demand for effective rehabilitation has never been greater.
John Etherington is a consultant in rheumatology and rehabilitation medicine and medical director at a musculoskeletal medicine company in London, Pure Sports Medicine. He had a 35-year career in the British Army, becoming the director of defence rehabilitation and was responsible for policy and plans for all forms of rehabilitation across the Armed Forces from 2011-2018. Previously Clinical Director at Headley Court, he developed the complex trauma rehabilitation services during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. For 3 years, he held the additional post of National Clinical Director for Rehabilitation at NHS England.
Dr Etherington was a member of the NHS England Clinical Reference Groups for rehabilitation and for emergency preparedness, response and resilience. Dr Etherington co-chaired the rehabilitation sub-committee of the Regional Trauma Network clinical advisory group which developed the system of trauma networks in England. He was President of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK from December 2018-21 and was awarded an OBE in 2009 and a CBE in 2018.
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