Army women 'at health risk'.THE health of female army recruits Recruit or Army recruit is a term often colloquially used to refer to the lowest military rank in various armed services. It usually implies that the soldier so labeled has not yet completed basic training. More formally, "recruit" means a person attending boot camp. is being put at "excess risk" by new army training regimes that demand women reach the same fitness level as men, experts warned today. Women are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to suffer injuries following training, research showed. And they are now eight times more likely than male recruits to be discharged with an overuse injury overuse injury Sports medicine A sports- or occupation-related injury that involve repetitive submaximal loading of a particular musculoskeletal unit, resulting in changes due to fatigue of tendons or inflammation of surrounding tissues; OIs include tennis elbow , army doctor Lt Col Lt Col or LtCol abbr. lieutenant colonel Ian Gemmell warned. Publishing new research in the January Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM) is one of the UK’s leading medical, peer-reviewed journals. JRSM is the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Medicine but has full editorial independence. , he said female army recruits face a "substantially greater risk" to health than men. |
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