A comparison of the health risk, health status, self-motivation, psychological symptomatic distress, and physical fitness of overweight and normal-weight soldiers.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Many work to ensure that women veterans receive appropriate and timely health care, yet the needs of those living in rural areas are often ignored. This is a critical oversight given the multitude of reports documenting rural access problems and health disparities. Lacking this, we are unable to plan for and...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Brooks E,Dailey NK,Bair BD,Shore JH

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick bites, associated clinical symptoms, and antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi were investigated in 77 Finnish army recruits training during summer in an endemic region and 50 control recruits serving outside the habitat of ticks. During a follow-up of 6 months, 26.9% of the study recruits reported tick bites. ...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Oksi J,Viljanen MK

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aims of this study were as follows: first to quantify and review the types of surgical procedures performed by military surgeons assigned to a Forward Surgical Team (FST) providing medical support to the population (MSP) in the Ivory Coast (IC), and second to analyze how this MSP was achieved. METHODS...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Bonnet S,Bertani A,Savoie PH,Mathieu L,Boddaert G,Gonzalez F,Poichotte A,Durand X,Rongiéras F,Balandraud P,Pons F,Rigal S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Longer steps with load carriage is common in shorter Soldiers when matching pace with taller Soldiers whereas shorter steps are hypothesized to reduce risk of injury with load carriage. The effects of load carriage with and without step length manipulation on loading patterns of three commonly injured stru...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Willy RW,DeVita P,Meardon SA,Baggaley M,Womble CC,Willson JD

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicidal ideation may be associated with all-cause mortality. Available research shows that treatment of depression reduces the risk of all-cause mortality in patients with suicidal ideation. However, this finding has not been replicated in a clinical population, where patients have various mental health conditions. W...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Shiner B,Riblet N,Westgate CL,Young-Xu Y,Watts BV

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the case of a giant osteochondroma emanating from the L5 vertebral body and extending into the retroperitoneum of a 40-year-old man, causing low back pain. Osteochondromas are benign bony tumors that typically occur within the appendicular skeleton, although in the sporadic form, up to 4% occur in...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Rymarczuk GN,Dirks MS,Whittaker DR,Neal CJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scientific publication in academic literature is a key venue in which the U.S. Department of Defense's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) program disseminates infectious disease surveillance data. Bibliometric analyses are tools to evaluate scientific productivity and impact o...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Reaves EJ,Valle R,Chandrasekera RM,Soto G,Burke RL,Cummings JF,Bausch DG,Kasper MR

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Soldiers are exposed to extreme training regimens in order to optimally prepare for real battle. High attrition rates are a known issue during training courses, especially for elite troops. An underlying factor might be the disbalance between stress/strain and recovery. The aim of this review is to give in...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Vrijkotte S,Roelands B,Pattyn N,Meeusen R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semmes-Weinstein monofilament (SWM) evaluation for protective sensation in diabetic feet is a widely used tool to guide patient care. Little evidence is available for alternative testing modalities for use when monofilament is not available or is deformed. Multiple varieties of intravenous angiocatheter tubing were su...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Hire JM,Ramadorai UE,Contractor D,Jacobs JM,Bojescul JA,Abell BE

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This article presents an emerging capability to project damage control procedures far forward for situations where evacuation to a formal surgical team is delayed. Specifically, we demonstrate the plausibility of using a wearable augmented reality (AR) telestration device to guide a nonsurgeon through a da...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Harris TE,DeLellis SF,Heneghan JS,Buckman RF,Miller GT,Magee JH,Vasios WN,Nelson KJ,Kane SF,Choi YS

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of paraganglioma of the vagus nerve in a 69-year-old woman presented as a pulsatile neck mass of 20 years duration. Angiogram showed it to be a vascular tumor and suggested the diagnosis of carotid body tumor. At operation, the tumor was found to involve the vagus nerve, which needed to be resected. The relevan...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Deshmukh N,Horbowyj R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gunshot wounds are the second leading cause of spinal cord injuries in developed countries, whereas in undeveloped and developing countries, this likelihood is much more. However, the weapon and injury characteristics are very different between those two groups of countries. The aim of this study was to review our exp...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Alaca R,Yilmaz B,Goktepe AS,Yazicioglu K,Gunduz S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has found that individual characteristics play an important role in psychological wellbeing and perception of stress. Although the Five Factor Model of personality has been found to consistently predict psychological well-being in the general population and among military personnel, hardiness has als...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Skomorovsky A,Sudom KA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps provides medical services-routine and emergency--to all IDF personnel (conscripts, career personnel, and reservists). Despite the fact that there are no differences in prevalence of disease in the IDF compared with the civil sector, health consumer appraisal, in the milita...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Zigdon A,Robinson A,Goldberg A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Military personnel during training and military operations are exposed to a large number of repeated exposures to low-level blast overpressure from a variety of sources. These exposures rarely produce a concussion, but anecdotal evidence from soldiers indicates that it can still cause transient neurologica...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Medda A,Funk R,Ahuja K,Kamimori G

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking prevention and cessation programs were implemented and evaluated in recruit training. Four groups of incoming recruits were compared: an education group, a no-smoking group, a health risk appraisal feedback group, and a no-treatment control group. Smoking behavior, perceptions related to smoking, and knowledge...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Cronan TA,Conway TL,Hervig LK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of human ehrlichiosis (caused by infection with Ehrlichia chaffeensis) is presented. The patient was a female Naval Academy midshipman with a 26-day history of daily field training with the U.S. Marines near Quantico, Virginia. She presented with a several-day history of myalgias, fever, and frontal headache. D...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Rooney TB,McGue TE,Delahanty KC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:U.S. military researchers have made major contributions to the discovery, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of a number of parasitic diseases. We review the paramount U.S. military contributions to the understanding of leishmaniasis, filariasis, schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis, gastrointestinal parasites, intestin...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Crum NF,Aronson NE,Lederman ER,Rusnak JM,Cross JH

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rules governing armed conflict are numerous and in many respects complex. In areas that are very complex, experts such as lawyers may be called in to assist, especially in the planning of military action. But the nature and tempo of warfare rarely allows a person in the field to enjoy such a luxury. Therefore, eve...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Baer HU,Kaar JF

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Questionnaires were sent to directors of the 118 oral and maxillofacial surgery training programs in the United States and its territories to survey current trends and recent experience with maxillo-mandibular fixation (MMF). Eighty-eight percent of the respondents indicated that it was customary to keep wire cutters ...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Edgin WA,Orth MP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1991-1992, a pelvic stress fracture incidence of 11.2% was recorded in a cohort of 143 female Australian Army recruits. An incidence of 0.1% was recorded in a cohort of male recruits trained in the 1992-1993 year using a nearly identical program. A number of preventive strategies were instituted in an attempt to re...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Pope RP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Nearly 10% of all combat injuries during the most recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan involve thoracic trauma. The long-term outcomes of these combat-related injuries with respect to lung function have not been fully evaluated. Limited research in civilian polytrauma patients have shown significant ob...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Hughes SM,Borders CW,Aden JK,Sjulin TJ,Morris MJ

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:At the direction of the Army Surgeon General, the Army behavioral health consultants in psychiatry, psychology, and social work assembled in Washington, DC immediately after the September 11, 2001 attack to plan and implement a proactive behavioral health response to the Pentagon attack. The goal was to minimize the s...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Hoge CW,Orman DT,Robichaux RJ,Crandell EO,Patterson VJ,Engel CC,Ritchie EC,Milliken CS

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transfusion of freshly collected blood products (FCBP) is sometimes necessary to save service member (SM) lives in austere deployed environments. Recipients of FCBPs are administratively tracked and offered serial serologic testing via the Armed Services Blood Program "Blood Look Back" (BLB) program to assur...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Johnson LA,Ballard TP,Kania M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated influences on physical fitness improvement among Navy remedial exercise program participants. Subjects were 27 Navy personnel who had failed to pass the body composition, aerobic fitness, or curl-up portion of the semiannual physical readiness test. The remedial exercise program consisted of th...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Croteau KA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes injury and illness rates and some risk factors among soldiers from an armor division during a rotation at the National Training Center (Fort Irwin, California). Soldiers from a brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division were involved in a 5-week training exercise at the National Training Center. Health c...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Darakjy S,Marin RE,Knapik JJ,Jones BH

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under operational conditions, current doctrine requires separate application of the standard military insect repellent and camouflage face paint. Working with an industrial partner, Amon Re, Inc., we developed a combined camouflage face paint and insect repellent that offers excellent protection from arthropod disease...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Debboun M,Coleman RE,Sithiprasasna R,Gupta RK,Strickman D

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cluster-randomized trial evaluating the effectiveness of chlorhexidine gluconate-impregnated wipes against skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) and colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was conducted among military recruits attending Officer Candidate School at Marine Corps Base Qua...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Schlett CD,Grandits GA,Millar EV,Whitman TJ,Tribble DR

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of ambulatory mental health services on a U.S. Army post where logistic support personnel are stationed compared utilization of psychiatric services before, during, and after the Persian Gulf War. Rates were calculated for service utilization for the at-risk groups from consecutive cases presenting at the post...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Koshes RJ,Rothberg JM

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Little is known about the numbers of children who will be left without one or both parents because of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. This report evaluates childbearing patterns among U.S. Army reserve component members, a group largely made up of men with limited conta...

journal_title：Military medicine

authors： Cowan DN,Gambel JM,Brundage JF,Garner RP,Kuhn J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00