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For some animals, such as salamanders, regrowing a missing limb is a common healing process. But what if people could do the same? Could the future of treating amputations include warfighters regrowing their own muscle, bone, and nerve tissues?
“We’re not quite there yet,” said Army Lt. Col. David Saunders, extremity repair product manager for the U.S. Army Medical Material Development Activity, Fort Detrick, Maryland. “What we’re trying to do is develop a toolkit for our trauma and reconstructive surgeons out of various regenerative medicine products as they emerge to improve long-term outcomes in function and form of injured extremities.”
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One topic of discussion at this year’s Military Health System Research Symposium is knowledge translation.
On average, it takes over a decade before medical research is accepted and put into clinical practice at hospitals or clinics – too long a wait for those who need treatment. Knowledge translation can help speed that up. It’s basically a process to take medical research findings and put them into evidenced-based treatments in a more timely and useful way. A successful process is one that is standardized and adaptable.
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A researcher from the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) shared findings on the effects of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on service members during the first 30 days following an improvised explosive device (IED) blast.
“The purpose of this study was to utilize a natural history approach to describe and understand symptom recovery in injured military personnel diagnosed with a blast related mTBI,” said Dr. Anna Tschiffely, Research Psychologist, Neurotrauma Department, NMRC. The findings were presented during a poster session at the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), August 27 – 30.
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