War and Musculoskeletal Injury Prompt Artistic Expression

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons seeks war injury related art

ROSEMONT, Ill., June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released
today by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons:

WHAT: Wartime experiences not only affect the military personnel and their
loved ones, but the physicians and medical teams who treat them. The American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has opened a call for entries to a
unique, juried art exhibition: Wounded in Action: An Art Exhibition of
Orthopaedic Advancements, as a tribute to injured troops and families,
civilians and the orthopaedic surgeons who are caring and have cared for them.

WHY: Wounded in Action celebrates those heroes (injured troops and civilians)
who have had orthopaedic injuries as a result of serving our country in war.
This exhibition also recognizes those orthopaedic surgeons who, throughout
history, have risked their own safety to care for our troops, to save lives
and limbs, to advance medical treatments, and to conduct research and learn
from war in order to better serve those who sustain orthopaedic trauma.

WHO: This exhibit is open to artists in three categories:
-- Military personnel who have sustained orthopaedic/musculoskeletal
injuries in any war or family members of any age (children included)
who
have been affected by those injuries.
-- Orthopaedic Surgeons who have provided medical care for wounded
warriors
throughout history, either in the military, in the Distinguished
Visiting Scholars Program, in the course of their practice, or through
orthopaedic research.
-- Injured civilians or artists of any age whose lives have been affected
by war and have been touched in some way by the loss of extremity
and/or
other musculoskeletal injuries of war.

WHEN: Submissions now being accepted through October 15, 2009.

The exhibit is an extension of the Academy's 75th Anniversary Celebration.

To learn more about the Exhibition and its call for entries, please visit the
Web site: http://www.woundedinactionart.org or contact Sandy Gordon, AAOS,
Director, Public Relations, at (847) 384-4030 or gordon@aaos.org.

About AAOS

SOURCE American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Sandy Gordon, +1-847-384-4030, gordon@aaos.org, or Addy Kujawa,
+1-847-384-4033, kujawa@aaos.org, both of the American Academy of Orthopaedic
Surgeons