Kenneth L. Cameron • Brett D. Owens
Editors

2016

Musculoskeletal injuries and conditions are endemic in US military populations. Former US Army Surgeon General, James Peake, referred to the burden of musculoskeletal injuries in the military as a “hidden epidemic” in 2000 [4]. Today, as the US military is transitioning from more than a decade of war on two fronts in the Middle East, new data suggest that this epidemic is emerging from the shadows [1–3].