Musculoskeletal injuries in military personnel-Descriptive epidemiology, risk factor identification, and prevention.

Objectives: To provide an overall perspective on musculoskeletal injury (MSI) epidemiology, risk factors, and preventive strategies in military personnel.

Design: Narrative review.

Methods: The thematic session on MSIs in military personnel at the 5th International Congress on Soldiers' Physical Performance (ICSPP) included eight presentations on the descriptive epidemiology, risk factor identification, and prevention of MSIs in military personnel.

Utility of preinduction tests as predictors of attrition in infantry recruits: a prospective study.

Introduction: Infantry recruit attrition wastes resources and can affect combat readiness. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of preinduction tests as a predictor of attrition among conscripts in the first year of infantry training.

Methods: 303 infantry conscripted recruits participated in a prospective study.

Assessing rectal temperature with a novel non-invasive sensor.

Athletes, soldiers, and workers who perform intense physical activities under extreme hot conditions might encounter increased physiological thermal strain. Consequently, the increase in body core temperature (T) might result in heat exhaustion and heatstroke. Thus, continuously following changes in T is of utmost importance.

Mild Physical Activity Does Not Improve Spatial Learning in a Virtual Environment.

It is well-established that physical exercise in humans improves cognitive functions, such as executive functions, pattern separation, and working memory. It is yet unknown, however, whether spatial learning, long known to be affected by exercise in rodents, is also affected in humans. In order to address this question, we recruited 20 healthy young male adults (18-30 years old) divided into exercise and control groups ( = 10 in each group).

Cognitive and physical performance are well preserved following standard blood donation: A noninferiority, randomized clinical trial.

Background: A walking blood bank (WBB) refers to the use of fellow combatants for battlefield blood donation. This requires pretesting combatants for infectious diseases and blood type. A fundamental prerequisite for this technique is that the donating soldier will suffer minimal physiological and mental impact.