This study seeks to find out why recruits get injured and what can the Army do about it

[rangerrebew]

This study seeks to find out why recruits get injured and what can the Army do about it
By: Todd South  

NATICK, Massachusetts – Researchers at an Army institute are more than halfway through a major study of what causes injuries in new recruits and what can be done about it.

Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, or USARIEM, Research Physiologists Julie Hughes and Stephen Foulis recently spoke with Army Times about the effort, which has so far studied 2,291 recruits with a goal of tracking 4,000 recruits for two years from basic training forward.

Some early findings show that, on average, the overall body weight of recruits didn’t change dramatically during basic training. But both body fat and muscle mass did.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/11/08/this-study-seeks-to-find-out-why-recruits-get-injured-and-what-can-the-army-do-about-it/

[skeeter]

Unfairly, female recruits are more susceptible to injury because they have more fragile bones and less dense connective & muscle tissue than their male counterparts.

Something must be done to correct this inequity.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Unfairly, female recruits are more susceptible to injury because they have more fragile bones and less dense connective & muscle tissue than their male counterparts.

Something must be done to correct this inequity.

The discrepancy gets much worse if women continue to do high intensity activities after boot camp because the loads wear on them much more quickly.