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Incidence and Time to Return to Training for Stress Fractures during Military Basic Training
Joint Authors
Wood, Alexander MacDonald
Hales, Richard
Keenan, Andre
Moss, Alexandra
Chapman, Michael
Davey, Trish
Nelstrop, Andrew
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-12-17
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Currently, little is known about the length of time required to rehabilitate patients from stress fractures and their return to preinjury level of physical activity.
Previous studies have looked at the return to sport in athletes, in a general population, where rehabilitation is not as controlled as within a captive military population.
In this study, a longitudinal prospective epidemiological database was assessed to determine the incidence of stress fractures and the time taken to rehabilitate recruits to preinjury stage of training.
Findings demonstrated a background prevalence of 5% stress fractures in Royal Marine training; femoral and tibial stress fractures take 21.1 weeks to return to training with metatarsal stress fractures being the most common injury taking 12.2 weeks.
Rehabilitation from stress fractures accounts for 814 weeks of recruit rehabilitation time per annum.
Stress fracture incidence is still common in military training; despite this stress fracture recovery times remain constant and represent a significant interruption in training.
It takes on average 5 weeks after exercise specific training has restarted to reenter training at a preinjury level, regardless of which bone has a stress fracture.
Further research into their prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation is required to help reduce these burdens.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Wood, Alexander MacDonald& Hales, Richard& Keenan, Andre& Moss, Alexandra& Chapman, Michael& Davey, Trish…[et al.]. 2013. Incidence and Time to Return to Training for Stress Fractures during Military Basic Training. Journal of Sports Medicine،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1043044
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Wood, Alexander MacDonald…[et al.]. Incidence and Time to Return to Training for Stress Fractures during Military Basic Training. Journal of Sports Medicine No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1043044
American Medical Association (AMA)
Wood, Alexander MacDonald& Hales, Richard& Keenan, Andre& Moss, Alexandra& Chapman, Michael& Davey, Trish…[et al.]. Incidence and Time to Return to Training for Stress Fractures during Military Basic Training. Journal of Sports Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1043044
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1043044