Training, physical performance, and injuries among men and women preparing for occupations in the army

摘要

Preparation for military occupations requires vigorous physical training. Injuries sustained during this training are of concern to the military because of their frequency and the associated loss of training time. This investigation looked, for the first time, at injury rates in gender-integrated Army basic training units. Medical records and fitness test scores were obtained for 250 trainees (155 men, 95 women). Female trainees in their seventh week of the 8-week training period experienced an injury risk 1.6 times greater than the risk for male trainees (55.8