The occurrence and severity of musculoskeletal disorders in Swedish military personnel during peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan

Glad, David; Skillgate, Eva

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“…Military soldiers often develop musculoskeletal health conditions ( Glad et al, 2012 ; Knapik et al, 2007 ) and depending on their severity they can lead to premature discharge ( Taanila et al, 2010 ). Several studies have demonstrated that soldiers often develop low back pain ( Taanila et al, 2010 ; Taanila et al, 2009 ; Jennings et al, 2008 ), particularly as they age ( Mattila et al, 2009 ; Hellsing and Bryngelsson, 2000 ).…”

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“…Musculoskeletal injuries are common in the military ( Glad et al, 2012 ; Knapik et al, 2007 ; Kaufman et al, 2000 ; Knapik et al, 2004 ; Daube 1969 ; Bessen et al, 1987 ; Mäkelä et al, 2006 ). The primary reason for medical evacuation of US military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan was musculoskeletal injuries ( Cohen et al, 2010 ), and musculoskeletal injuries remain a common reason for active duty military to utilize healthcare services ( Waitzkin and Noble, 2009 ; Mattila et al, 2006 ; Jones and Knapik, 1999 ).…”

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Spine Buddy® Supportive Pad Impact on Single-Leg Static Balance and a Jogging Gait of Individuals Wearing a Military Backpack

Ward

Coats

Pourmoghaddam

2014

Journal of Human Kinetics

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The Spine Buddy® supportive pad was developed to be inserted underneath military backpacks to help disperse the heavy load of the backpack. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact the additional supportive pad had on static balance and a running gait while wearing a military backpack. Forty healthy subjects (age= 27.5 + 5.6 yrs, body height= 1.78 + 0.06 m, body mass= 86.5 + 14.0 kg: mean + SD) participated in a static single-leg balance test on a force plate with each lower limb while wearing a 15.9 kg military backpack for 30 s. Following this, participants were randomized to one of two interventions: 1) Intervention, which wore the Spine Buddy® supportive pad underneath their backpack or 2) Control, with no additional supportive pad. Post-intervention measurements of static single-leg balance were then recorded. Afterwards, a similar pre vs post testing schedule and randomization scheme was used to test the impact of the supportive pad on a 5 mph jogging gait using Vicon® cameras. Within-group data were analyzed with a 2-way repeated measures ANOVA. Statistically significant differences were not seen between the control and experimental group for balance and gait variables. Preliminarily, this suggests that the Spine Buddy® supportive pad causes no deleterious effect on static balance and a jogging gait in 18–45 year-old asymptomatic individuals.

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Spine Buddy® Supportive Pad Impact on Single-Leg Static Balance and a Jogging Gait of Individuals Wearing a Military Backpack

Ward

Coats

Pourmoghaddam

2014

Journal of Human Kinetics

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“…Musculoskeletal pathology is one of the most common work-related health problems [1][2][3], as well as an important cause of morbidity for both civil population and military personnel [5][6][7]. It is an inflammatory and degenerative ailment that affects all individuals at working age.…”

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The rate of the musculoskeletal pathology assessment for military personnel and civil population

Pļaviņa

Kārkliņa

Viksne³

2016

SHS Web Conf.

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Abstract.Musculoskeletal disorders are an important cause of morbidity for civil population as well as for military personnel. Musculoskeletal disorders represent a prevalent source of patient visits, lost work time, hospitalization and disability. The three most important pain areas are those of lumbar spine, shoulders and lower extremities. We provide assessment of Anthropometric characteristics in two groups. Anthropometric characteristics of military personnel (n = 60) that leave the active service and civil population of the same age (n = 100) were collected during two year period (2011/2012). The anthropometric characteristics were evaluated for military personnel going for retirement with diagnosis of musculoskeletal pathology. The evaluated anthropometric characteristics were the height, the body mass and the anthropometric indices. Body fat ranges for standard adults were calculated according to NIH/WHO BMI guidelines. 30% of military persons with diagnosis of musculoskeletal pathology and individuals from civil population group with diagnosis of the musculoskeletal pathology have values of body mass index above the standard level One of the reasons the musculoskeletal pathology is the overweight it may be important to provide preventive measures to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders linked to specific job and treatment at early stage.

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“…The pain symptoms could be the initial symptom of musculoskeletal pathology which is an important cause of morbidity in the military service [5,6,9]. Finnish [11,12] Norwegian, Swedish [2], Danish Defence Force [5,6], the US Army [1,3] epidemiological studies have shown that pain symptoms are important for physically active conscripts, a significant number of training days is lost due to musculoskeletal disorders. The most important pain areas are those of lumbar spine (cervical and lumbar portion), and lower extremities.…”

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Analysis of musculoskeletal symptoms (pain) and characteristics of the anthropometric parameters in the military personnel

Pļaviņa

Umbraško

2015

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Musculoskeletal disorders are connected to external and internal factors. External conditions in the military environment are characterized with a high physical load and psychological load. Internal factors are connect to individual health capacity, anthropometric characteristics, posture and foot state or the deviation from the standard. The pain is a common subjective sign of musculoskeletal pathology. The pain symptoms could be the initial symptom of musculoskeletal pathology which is an important cause of morbidity in the military service [6,7]. The nature of the musculoskeletal problems suggests that a combination of ergonomic and individual/organizational intrinsic and extrinsic factors are associated with the military environment. We have provided for the analysis of cadets of the national Defence Academy in the period 2013-2014 the anthropometric parameters, the calculation of the body fat range according to the Guidelines of WHO and the data of the standardized Nordic Questionnaire for the Analysis Musculoskeletal Symptoms. The analysis of the average value of the body mass index fixed differences between the respondents' groups. The assessment of the range of the body mass index revealed that the number of the individuals related to the overweight problems increased with the age about 1.5 times. Evaluations of the body fat range have shown that the number of the individuals with the healthy assessment of the body fat range decreased about two times with the age. Military training conditions with the combination of the intrinsic (individual) factors form the risk for musculoskeletal disorders. The most common problematic areas of pain are the lower back region, the hip joint region, the knee joint region, but the largest problem is the combined pain for the lower back and the knee joint Analysis of musculoskeletal symptoms | 87 region. The analysis of anthropometric parameters and evaluation of data Questionnaire for Analysis Musculoskeletal Symptoms may be important to provide preventive measures to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders linked to a specific job and the treatment at the early stage where the combination of the extrinsic factors condition and intrinsic factors is present.Keywords: anthropometric characteristics of the military personnel, posture assessment of the military personnel

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The occurrence and severity of musculoskeletal disorders in Swedish military personnel during peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

Spine Buddy® Supportive Pad Impact on Single-Leg Static Balance and a Jogging Gait of Individuals Wearing a Military Backpack

Spine Buddy® Supportive Pad Impact on Single-Leg Static Balance and a Jogging Gait of Individuals Wearing a Military Backpack

The rate of the musculoskeletal pathology assessment for military personnel and civil population

Analysis of musculoskeletal symptoms (pain) and characteristics of the anthropometric parameters in the military personnel

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