Injury Prevention Factsheets, Training Products, and News Articles

​Factsheets​​​

• ​Overview of Injuries among U.S. Active-Duty Service Members​ Factsheet​ (Sep 2024)
  
• Parachuting Injur​​ies Factsheet (May 2024)
  
• Blister Prevention Factsheet (Nov 20​23​)
• Body Mass Index: U.S. Army Considerations ​Factsheet (​Jun​​ 2023)
• Installation Sold​​ier Injury Facts​​heet (May 2022)​​
  
• Installation Civilian Injury Factsheet (May 2022)​​
  
• Foot Marching and Load-Carriage Injuries Factsheet (May 2022)​​
• Fall-Related Injuries Factsheet (May 2022)​​​​​​​​
  
• Motorcycle-Related Injuries Facts​heet (Feb 2022)
  
• Privately-Owned Vehicle-Relat​ed Injuries Factsheet (Feb 2022)
  
• Mouthguards Factsheet (Mar 2021)
  
• ​ Heat Illness Prevention Factsheet (Jun 2021)
  
• Cold Weather Injury Prevention Factsheet (​Jun 2021)​​
  
• Weight-Training: Dead Lift Injuries Factsheet (​Nov 2019)
  
• Weight-Training: Bench Press Injuries Factsheet (​Nov 2019)
  
• Weight-Training: Squat Injuries Factsheet (​Nov 2019)​
  
• Training-Related Injuries Factsheet ​(​Mar 2019)​
  
• Military Women Injury Prevention Factsheet (Mar 2019)
  

General Training Slides

• Explanation of Common Injury Causes in Surveillance (under revision, Dec 2020)
• Cold Weather Injuries: Prevention, Identification and Treatment
• Heat Illness Risk Management for Unit/Installation Training
  

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News​ Articles

2024

• No Pain No​​ Gain Myths (Sep 2024)​​
  

​20​23

• Are you injury prone?​ (Dec 2​​023) 
  
• Slips trips and falls - leading reported causes of injuries among military​ (Sep 202​​3)​ 
• Keep fit through regular exercise to fight fat as you age​ (Jun 2023) 
• Military health experts highlight need for U.S. youth to maintain healthy weight​ (Apr 2023)
• Service members need to remember signs, symptoms of heat illness as weather warms​ (Mar 2023)
  
• Military recognizes importance of sleep, investigates use of alternative treatment device for sleep apnea (Mar 2023)
  
• Military public health experts provide tips for leaders to improve medical readiness​ (Jan 2023)
  

• ​Army experts track injuries ​to identify risks and support prevention​ (Dec 2022)
• Army experts mix up workouts to reduce overuse injuries and improve bone joint health​ (Oct 2022)
• Let's reduce drug-related conditions and poisonings among Soldiers​​ (Mar 2022)
• Army Combat Fitness Test, ACFT, final ​revision was posted 23 March 2022​ - of its six events, the plank now replaces the leg tuck, and it has gender- and age-adjusted standards. Though different from its initial development, basic tactics for preventing injuries associated with the ACFT are the sa​me.​​​
  
• Journal article: Injury risk factors associated with weight training​ (Feb 2022)
  
• Helmet-wearing and knowing​ limits before trying Winter Olympic-inspired stunts​ (Feb 2022) 
• Why fitness matters - reviewing history of Army fitness testing (Jan 2022) 
  

• Unit leaders should use e-Profile data to plan, track causes, and prevent injuries to improve readiness​ article - Soldiers average 2 months of limited duty for each injury, resulting in millions of lost duty days each year (Oct 2021) 
  
• Women's Health (May 2021) 
  
• Army leader guide to reducing Soldier injuries (Apr 2021)​
  
• New Army Leader Guide Offers Strategies for Reducing Soldier Injuries​ (Apr 2021) 
  

• Don't Let Weights Drop You...Train Smart (Mar 2020)
  
• Don't Get Benched by Injury​ (Feb 2020) 
  

• The Army Combat Fitness Test: Are You Prepared? (Aug 2019)
  
• Be resilient: Reduce your risk of running and sports injuries (Jul 2018)
  
• Are You Injury Prone? (Jan 2018)
  
• Reducing the Risks (Aug 2017)
  
• Fighting Fatigue​ (Dec 2016)
  
• Heat Can Kill You (Dec 2016)
  
• The Weight of War: March to Win by Keeping Ahead of Injury (Aug 2016)
  
• Training in the Heat: Fact and Fiction​ (Mar 2016)
  
• Make sure your winter fun is not a wipeout (Jan 2016)
  
• Mouthguards: protecting your teeth won't make you a wuss (Dec 2015)
  
• Beware the blister: a 'minor injury' that can slow you down with serious pain (Sep 2015)
  
• Non-battle injuries result in more medical evacuations than combat (Jan 2015) 
  

For other external educational resources, visit the Army Medicine Campaign Plan and Research to Practice Education Series webpages. ​