The effect of leg strength on the incidence of lower extremity overuse injuries during military training

Military Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-156

  Hoffman, Jay R ^a   Chapnik, Leah ^a   Shamis, Ari ^a   Givon, Uri ^a   Davidson, Benjamin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARMY; ARTICLE; FITNESS; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; LEG MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; STRESS FRACTURE;

EID: 0033016098     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/164.2.153     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Jordaan G: The incidence of overuse injuries in military recruits during basic military training. Milit Med 1994; 159: 421-6.
2. Ross J: A review of lower limb overuse injuries during basic military training. I. Types of overuse injuries. Milit Med 1993; 158: 410-5.
3. Bruduig TJB, Grudger TD, Obermeyer L: Stress fractures in 295 trainees: a one year study of incidence as related to age, sex and race. Milit Med 1983; 148: 311-3.
4. Milgrom C, Finestone A, Shlamkovitch N, et al: Youth is a risk factor for stress. J Bone Joint Surg Br 1994; 76: 20-2.
5. Sahi T: Stress fracture: epidemiology and control. Rev Int Serv Sante Forces Armees 1984; 57: 311-3.
6. Gofrit ON, Livneh A: Stress fracture of bone in conscripted infantry recruits: lack of correlation to pre-army physical fitness. Milit Med 1994; 159: 339-41.
7. Finestone A, Shalmkovitch N, Eldad A, et al: Risk factors for stress fractures among Israeli infantry recruits. Milit Med 1991; 156: 528-30.
8. Giladi M, Milgrom C, Danon YL: Stress fractures in military recruits. Med Corps Int 1988; 3: 21-8.
9. Milgrom C, Finestone A, Shlamkovitch N, et al: Stress fracture treatment. Orthop Int 1995; 3: 362-7.
10. Hamdy RL, Anderson JS, Whalen KE, et al: Regional differences in bone density of young men involved in different exercises. Med Sci Sports Exercise 1994; 26: 884-8.
11. Heinonen A, Oja P, Kannus P, et al: Bone mineral density of female athletes in different sports. Bone Miner 1993; 23: 1-14.
12. Karlsson MK, Johnell O, Obrant KJ: Bone mineral density in weight lifters. Calcif Tissue Int 1993; 52: 212-5.
13. Kannus P, Sievanen H, Jarvinen TLN, et al: Effects of free mobilization and low-to high-intensity treadmill running on the immobilization-induced bone loss in rats. J Bone Miner Res 1994; 9: 1613-9.
14. Conroy BP, Kraemer WJ, Maresh CM, et al: Bone mineral density in elite Junior Olympic weightlifters. Med Sci Sports Exercise 1993; 25: 1103-9.
15. Lohman T, Going S, Pamenter R, et al: Effects of resistance training on regional and total bone mineral density in premenopausal women: a randomized prospective study. J Bone Miner Res 1995; 10: 1015-24.
16. Myburgh KH, Hutchins J, Fataar AB, et al: Low bone density is an etiologic factor for stress fractures in athletes. Ann Intern Med 1990; 113: 754-9.
17. Durnin JV, Wormersley J: Body fat assessed from total body density and its estimation from skinfold thickness: measurements on 481 men and women aged 16 to 72 years. Br J Nutr 1974; 32: 77-97.
18. Zwas ST, Elkanovitch R, Frank G: Interpretation and classification of bone scintigraphic findings in stress fractures. J Nucl Med 1987; 28: 452-7.
19. Lane ST, Bloch A, Jones HH, et al: Long distance running, bone density and osteoarthritis. JAMA 1993; 55: 1147-51.
20. Wolman RL, Faulman L, Clark P, et al: Different training patterns and bone mineral density of the femoral shaft in elite female athletes. Ann Rheum Dis 1991; 50: 487-9.
21. Heinrich CH, Going SB, Pamenter RW, et al: Bone mineral content of cyclically menstruating female resistance and endurance trained athletes. Med Sci Sports Exercise 1990; 22: 558-63.
22. Bilanin JE, Blanchard MS, Russek-Cohen E: Lower vertebral bone density in male long distance runners. Med Sci Sports Exercise 1989; 21: 66-70.
23. Conroy BP, Earle RW: Bone, muscle and connective tissue adaptations to physical activity. In Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning, pp 51-66. Edited by Baechle TR. Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics, 1994.
24. Rubin CT, Lanyon LE: Regulation of bone formation by applied dynamic loads. J Bone Joint Surg Am 1984; 66: 397-402.
25. Snow-Harter C, Bouxsein M, Lewis B, et al: Muscle strength as a predictor of bone mineral density in young women. J Bone Miner Res 1990; 5: 589-95.