Injury Incidence, Injury Risk Factors, and Physical Fitness of Army Basic Trainees, Ft Jackson, SC 1997

Evaluation of a Program to Identify and Pre-Condition Trainees With Low Physical Fitness: Attrition and Cost Analysis

“…It does suggest that Individuals of similar aerobic fitness levels have similar injury and BCT graduation rates while individuals of lower aerobic fitness have higher injury rates and less success at BCT graduation. This has also been demonstrated in other studies (5,6,7,13,18,19,22,26). To demonstrate the effectiveness of the FAP a more appropriate study design would be to take a group of individuals who fail the entry-level physical fitness test and put 14 into the FAP and send 34 directly to BCT (without FAP training).…”

Evaluation of Injury Rates During Implementation of the Fort Drum Running Shoe Injury Prevention Program

“…(10) The amount and type of physical training is known to influence injury incidence in military populations (46,47,(54)(55)(56). It is possible that less active training regimes were followed by units at Ft Drum during the Intervention period but no data were available that could test this hypothesis.…”

Effect of rest from running on overuse injuries in Army basic training

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] These injuries are predominantly of the lower extremities (e.g., strains, sprains, blisters, stress fractures), and most are related to the intense physical activity involved with training. Repeated microtrauma due to repetitive activity and sudden increases in physical activity may result in overuse injuries.…”