Tactical Talk: Treating Tactical Personnel Part 2

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Tactical populations are unique and bespoke both in comparison to the general or sporting populations and within individual tactical populations. For any conditioning or return to work program to be effective, the context of the tactical environment, specific profiles of injuries, load carriage requirements, and fitness impacts and influences must be considered. From the need for relative strength in load carriage but absolute strength in victim drags to the differing impacts imparted by various personal protective equipment, this lecture series will consider tactical personnel across their occupational lifespan, from initial training, through general duties service, to specialist service. This lecture series will be broken into 3 parts: 1) introduction to tactical personnel and their injuries (March 22); 2) load carriage and associated risks (March 29); and 3) the importance of fitness (April 5).

Contributors

Rob Orr, PhD, MPHTY, BFET, ADFPTI, TSAC-F

Professor Rob Orr joined the Australian Army in 1989 as an infantry soldier before transferring to the Australian Defence Force Physical Training Instructor (PTI) stream. Serving for 10 years in this stream, Rob designed, developed, instructed and audited physical training programs and physical education and rehabilitation courses for military personnel and fellow PTIs from both Australian and foreign defense forces. Rob subsequently transferred to the physiotherapy stream where his role included the clinical rehabilitation of defense members and project management of physical conditioning optimization reviews. Serving as the Human Performance Officer for Special Operations before joining the team at Bond University in 2012, Rob continues to serve in the Army Reserve.

Professor Orr is the Director of the Tactical Research Unit, a faculty research center at Bond University with international collaborations designed to provide research, consultancy, and education services to tactical professions around the globe. Rob’s fields of research, consultancy, and education provision spans physical conditioning, reconditioning, rehabilitation and injury prevention for military, law enforcement and protective services across their occupational lifespan (initial trainee to specialist). With over 200 peer reviewed research papers in tactical populations, Rob is actively involved in research with the defense forces, law enforcement departments, and firefighters / first responders both nationally and internationally.

Professor Orr served as the editor for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) TSAC Technical Report (2015-2020) and on the organizing committee for the 4th and 5th International Congress on Soldiers’ Physical Performance and on the scientific committees for the occupational branch of the Australian Physiotherapy Association and 2019 and 2021 World Physical Therapy Organisation conferences. Dr Orr is also Chair of the organizing committee for the 4th Physical Employment Standards Conference to be held in 2023 at Bond University, Australia. Winning awards for research outcomes, publications, presentations, and teaching, Dr Orr has presented keynote presentations at internationally renowned research facilities and congresses. In the last year alone, Professor Orr was the NSCA TSAC Professional of the year award winner, a Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Award winner, and an Australian Award for University Teaching winner.

References
Tactical Talk_References.pdf

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Rob Orr, PhD, MPHTY, BFET, ADFPTI, TSAC-F