With the incredible amount of stress that Service Members face while on Active Duty and after their commitments, there is a huge need for skilled OT intervention in the areas of mental health and cognitive dysfunction.

This course will provide the learner with basic information on the integumentary system, burn wound classification, burn wound healing, and therapy management of burn injuries based on classification.

This course will provide an overview of occupational therapy’s role in the rehabilitation of amputations in a military setting. The phases of rehabilitation, client-centered goals, and occupation based interventions for the care of service members with amputations will be discussed.

This session will give a broad overview of military occupational therapy across the spectrum of care. It will include recent case studies of wounded service members and OT intervention both in a traditional hospital setting as well as in a deployed environment.