A comparison of injuries, limited-duty days, and injury risk factors in infantry, artillery, construction engineers, and special forces soldiers
| Autor: | Jeffrey O. Williams, Maria Bovill, William J. Tharion, Tabitha Hodges, Katy Reynolds, Ludmila Cosio-Lima |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Physical fitness Poison control Motor Activity Occupational safety and health Military medicine Body Mass Index Disability Evaluation Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Injury prevention medicine Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio Humans Prospective Studies Risk factor Military Medicine business.industry Infantry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine United States Military personnel Military Personnel Physical Fitness Physical therapy Body Composition Wounds and Injuries business |
| Zdroj: | Military medicine. 174(7) |
| ISSN: | 0026-4075 |
| Popis: | We compared injuries/risk factors in infantry soldiers (I), construction engineers (CE), combat artillery (CA), and Special Forces (SF) during their operational and fitness activities.Anthropometrics, ethnicity, and fitness data were collected before review of medical records.Injury rates for I, CE, and CA were 4.0, 7.2, and 5.5 injuries/100 soldier-months, respectively; over 70% of them resulted from overuse. SF soldiers had an injury rate of 3.5 injuries/100 soldier-months, 50% of them reported as traumatic. Average limited-duty days (LDDs) were threefold higher in SF. Smoking, BMIor =25, and APFT run time for 3.2 km14 minutes were risk factors in I. Caucasian ethnicity, height170.2 cm, weightor =90 kg, and BMIor =25 were risk factors in CE and CA. Age27 years old was a risk factor in SF.Greater emphasis should be placed on risk factor identification and testing strategies to reduce injuries among SF and other troops. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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