Musculoskeletal Injuries
| Autor: | Bruce H. Jones, Sara Canada, Keith G. Hauret, Michelle Canham-Chervak, Steven H. Bullock |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study Stress fractures Epidemiology business.industry Population Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Poison control Human factors and ergonomics medicine.disease Occupational safety and health Military medicine Injury prevention Physical therapy Medicine Body region business education |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 38:S61-S70 |
| ISSN: | 0749-3797 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.amepre.2009.10.021 |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION: Although injuries are recognized as a leading health problem in the military, the size of the problem is underestimated when only acute traumatic injuries are considered. Injury-related musculoskeletal conditions are common in this young, active population. Many of these involve physical damage caused by micro-trauma (overuse) in recreation, sports, training, and job performance. The purpose of this analysis was to determine the incidence of injury-related musculoskeletal conditions in the military services (2006) and describe a standardized format in which to categorize and report them. METHODS: The subset of musculoskeletal diagnoses found to be injury-related in previous military investigations was identified. Musculoskeletal injuries among nondeployed, active duty service members in 2006 were identified from military medical surveillance data. A matrix was used to report and categorize these conditions by injury type and body region. RESULTS: There were 743,547 injury-related musculoskeletal conditions in 2006 (outpatient and inpatient, combined), including primary and nonprimary diagnoses. In the matrix, 82% of injury-related musculoskeletal conditions were classified as inflammation/pain (overuse), followed by joint derangements (15%) and stress fractures (2%). The knee/lower leg (22%), lumbar spine (20%), and ankle/foot (13%) were leading body region categories. CONCLUSIONS: When assessing the magnitude of the injury problem in the military services, injury-related musculoskeletal conditions should be included. When these injuries are combined with acute traumatic injuries, there are almost 1.6 million injury-related medical encounters each year. The matrix provides a standardized format to categorize these injuries, make comparisons over time, and focus prevention efforts on leading injury types and/or body regions. Language: en |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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