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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
Just an idea here, but has anyone looked at ways to prevent injuries in SF? With all the money and training they put into you it looks like they would look at different ways to prevent injury, oh crap I am talking about the Army, they don't think ahead.
How about looking at everyone wearing joint support on ruck marches etc as a preventive measure? What about back braces? Granted not any good for compression injuries like on jumps, but might help with rucking injuries from bending etc.
Any other ideas on how to reduce the injury's?
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I don't have any ideas about how to reduce injuries. They are going to happen. The ruck isn't going to go just ruck itself. And how Miclo18D brought up the point of SF soldiers being an older group of individuals is going to lend itself to more injuries that are going to last longer as many of you here can testify. Old guys just don't heal like the young pups can.
As I was attesting to in my previous post, I do not believe 18D's get the proper training for orthopedic type injuries. I do not know what the current curriculum teaches considering these injuries, but I would hope there is more of an emphasis on physical therapy. I learned to identify problems,
diagnosis,(knee instability, shoulder apprehension test, etc.) orthopedic injuries but no way of helping the individual except as mentioned before, RICE. Of course documentation and a referral to higher but everyone here knows that doesn't get followed through with many times. The guy with the knee injury just says he will take some time off from running/rucking and eat a bunch of ranger candy (Motrin) and take it easy for a bit. Not wanting to be a pussy.
Since there has always been an emphasis on "taking care of things at the team level", I would hope there is/will be more training on the care of rehab'ing team members.