Musculoskeletal injuries among overweight army trainees: Incidence and health care utilization

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 247-252

  Cowan, D N ^a,b   Bedno, S A ^a,c   Urban, N ^a,b   Yi, B ^a,b   Niebuhr, D W ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Allied Technology Group Inc   (United States)

^c EISENHOWER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Armed forces; BMI; Epidemiological studies; Fitness tests; Injury; Male; Musculoskeletal; Obesity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957823105     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqr028     Document Type: Article

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