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Vol. 76, No. 1, January 1996, pp. 18-19
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T Long, PhD, PT, is Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

The authors of this article are to be commended for undertaking a project that is relevant not only to the treatment of individual women but also to health care policy and the education of physical therapists. The epidemiological statistics on battery are alarming. Battery is the most common cause of injury to women. Three to four million women per year are battered by their partners.1 Approximately one third of emergency department visits by women are due to battery.2 Thirty-five percent of long-term disability in women is attributed to battery (Joanne Tolin, Director, Maryland Alliance Against Domestic Violence; personal communication; October 11, 1995). Pregnant women may be even more vulnerable. Estimates of women who are battered while pregnant range from 25% to 45%, and abuse is a leading cause of infant mortality.2 Given these statistics, the likelihood that therapists are treating women for injuries sustained by battery is great....


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