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Risk Factors for Musculoskeletal Injuries for Soldiers Deployed to Afghanistan

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by NewsBot, Oct 26, 2012.

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    Underreporting of Musculoskeletal Injuries in the US Army
    Findings From an Infantry Brigade Combat Team Survey Study

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    Excess Stress Fractures, Musculoskeletal Injuries, and Health Care Utilization Among Unfit and Overweight Female Army Trainees
    Margot R. Krauss et al
    Am J Sports Med November 23, 2016
     
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    Effect of a Lower Extremity Preventive Training Program on Physical Performance Scores in Military Recruits.
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    Excess Stress Fractures, Musculoskeletal Injuries, and Health Care Utilization Among Unfit and Overweight Female Army Trainees
    Margot R. Krauss, MD, MPH, Nadia U. Garvin, MHS, Michael R. Boivin, MD, MPH, David N. Cowan, PhD, MPH
    The American Journal of Sports Medicine
     
  5. Dr. Steven King

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    Aloha,
    A natural next step may be to see if it was caused by the extra weight.
    "The results indicate a significantly increased risk of musculoskeletal injuries, including stress fractures, among unfit recruits and an increased risk of non–stress fracture musculoskeletal injuries among recruits who exceeded body fat limits. Once injured, female recruits who were weight qualified but unfit and those who were fit but exceeded body fat limits had increased health care utilization."

    What about fit female recruits that carry 30 pounds of extra weight in their ruck-sacks? Would the injury rates remain the same and elevated?

    What can we do as foot doctors to limit the impact these security personnel suffer from while on duty?

    Should we build them better footwear systems that would mitigate the impacts better than the currently mandated 100% blown polyurethane boots as required by Army Regulations AR 670-1 ?

    Some of this research is cute but does not really offer a real world solution to a bigger world problem. Is it a waste of money then?

    A hui hou,
    Steve

    Death by Foam Boots
    http://www.militarytimes.com/story/...ghanistan-veterans-genital-injuries/20479715/

    SME and voting member for ASTM F13 and E54.4 committees
     
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    Risk Factors for Injury Associated with Low, Moderate, and High Mileage Road Marching in a U.S. Army Infantry Brigade
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  8. Dr. Steven King

    Dr. Steven King Well-Known Member

    "reducing the cumulative overloading from both physical training and occupational tasks may help prevent injury."

    Aloha,
    So we funded a research study that just suggested more PT and OT to prevent injuries from road marching.
    When will we fund serious research into better boot and orthotic systems that will help prevent injuries from road marching??

    It would be the most obvious area for significant improvements in injury prevention.

    Mahalo,
    Steve

    Co-Principle Investigator SBIR A11-109 “Advanced Composite Insoles for the Reduction of Stress Fractures.” US Department of Defense and Army Medical Research and Materials Command
    :)
     
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    Mental health among Iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal injuries
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    Risk factors for injury associated with low, moderate, and high mileage road marching in a U.S. Army infantry brigade.
    Schuh-Renner A et al
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    PUBLIC RELEASE: 1-NOV-2017
    White matter damage linked to chronic musculoskeletal pain in Gulf War veterans
    A study from the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, has shown that structural damage in the white matter of the brain may be linked to chronic musculoskeletal pain in Gulf War veterans.

    The results appear online in the journal Pain.

    Using magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that participants with chronic pain had widespread disruptions in the structure of their white matter across several regions of the brain. White matter is deep tissue within the brain that contains axons, nerve fibers that conduct electrical signals and connect different areas of the brain. Many of the brain regions found to be affected in the study are involved in the interpretation of pain stimuli and the emotional aspects of pain perception.

    The results showed that poorer white matter health was linked to higher pain levels. It was also connected with higher levels of fatigue and, to a lesser extent, depression. In the words of the researchers, "These data suggest that poor white matter health may contribute to the persistent widespread pain that is experienced by a significant number of veterans who were deployed to the Persian Gulf."

    According to Dr. Dane E. Cook, corresponding author on the article, results such as these can provide objective evidence of a person's subjective experience. He explains, "Changes in brain white matter show that there is something wrong in the central nervous system that may explain why the veteran is experiencing widespread pain."

    Chronic musculoskeletal pain affects around 25 percent of veterans who were deployed during the Persian Gulf War. It is one of the cardinal symptoms of Gulf War illness, a chronic condition with a variety of symptoms that is largely medically unexplained. Veterans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan more recently as part of operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom have also shown similar rates of chronic musculoskeletal pain.

    The patients in the Madison VA study with chronic pain also had lower quality of life and physical functioning than those without chronic pain, according to assessments given to each participant.

    Evidence has suggested that Gulf War illness symptoms are related to structural changes in the brain. A 2008 report by the VA Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses linked decreased white matter volume to Gulf War illness. In the new study, the researchers were looking for brain structural damage specifically linked to pain. To do so, they recruited 30 veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain from operations Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and Iraqi Freedom. They also tested 31 veterans of these conflicts without chronic pain, for comparison.

    The researchers took MRIs of each participant's brain. They used a technique called diffusion tensor imaging to study the spread of water through the brain. Water tends to diffuse along the direction of the axons, the researchers explain, meaning that MRI can be used to map the structural integrity of white matter. One study by Georgetown University researchers was able to tell the difference between patients with Gulf War illness and those without by using diffusion mapping.

    The disruptions in water diffusion found in the Madison VA study suggest that the myelin structure of axons is impaired in those with chronic pain, write the researchers. Myelin is a material that surrounds axons and nerve cells. It serves as an electrical insulator and allows the nervous system to function properly.

    Finding disruptions in white matter that are significantly related to the experience of pain is an important step towards determining the mechanisms of chronic pain in Gulf War veterans, explains Cook.

    The findings "emphasize that chronic pain in Gulf War vets and perhaps Gulf War illness affects the central nervous system." Other chronic pain conditions and diseases are categorized as central nervous system diseases, but Gulf War illness is less well understood. Figuring out how Gulf War illness affects the central nervous system and causes pain can help doctors understand and treat the condition.

    However, the researchers explain, "what is yet to be determined is whether these microstructural relationships are reversible with appropriate treatment, and whether changes in white matter structure will lead to improvements in symptoms."

    The next step, says Cook, is to test whether treatments aimed at relieving pain also change the white matter. The research team is in the final year of a clinical trial using exercise training as a treatment for veterans with chronic pain. They are assessing both pain symptoms and white matter over time to test whether changes in white matter are related to changes in pain. Cook hopes that this ongoing study could lead to better treatments for chronic pain: "Our premise is that by targeting potential mechanisms of disease maintenance, we will be better able to target our treatments, a form of personalized medicine."
     
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    A Retrospective analysis of Five Years Musculoskeletal Injury Data in British Infantry Recruits.
    Heagerty R, Sharma J, Clayton JL
    Ann Musculoskelet Med 1(2): 032-038. (2017)
     
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  25. Dr. Steven King

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    Aloha,
    Why did they do an entire research project following soldiers for 26 weeks and only do the regression analysis on smoking status and heel pressures?
    Do you not think that the footwear should have been one of the risk factors tested?? Not all boots are the same.
    Funny they also did not list BMI in the study.
    MSKI is caused by ground contact forces how does a bunch of smoke make much of a difference in young healthy 18-26 year old peacekeepers-warfighters?

    Mahalo,
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  31. Dr. Steven King

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    Aloha,
    We built the linked testing rig at North Dakota State U. Mech E. Dept and would like to acquire some sample combat boots from other military's to test them on the device this year.
    If you have access to some boots we would pay for them and the shipping.



    Mahalo,
    Steve
     
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  40. Dr. Steven King

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    Aloha,

    Probably a more cost effective way of treating this "Afghanistan" tragedy would be to supply our soldiers with advanced composite blast resistant combat boots instead of foam 100% polyurathane midsole boots as required by the US Dept. of Defense per Army Regulation 670-1.

    https://nypost.com/2019/10/14/veter...splant-after-losing-his-in-afghanistan-blast/


    If we don't think IED's are a clear and present danger then perhaps we need to reassess the known known data.


    Our militaries and governments need to add puncture and blast resistance to footwear as a formally identified performance requirement.

    An few ounces of prevention can save pounds of flesh.

    Mahalo,
    Dr. King
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