陆军军医大学学报 (May 2023)
Analysis of seasonal training injuries of faculty and staff in a military medical university during an 85 km mountain trek
Abstract
Objective To investigate the training injuries of faculty and staff (including specialized technical officers, non-ranking cadres and military civilians) in different seasons during an 85 km mountain trek, and to provide information for training medical support. Methods Data of 769 faculty and staff were collected (two treks, in 2021), including 335 participants from the trek of March 24 to 28, 2021 being assigned into the spring group, and 434 in the trek of September 22 to 26, 2021 into the autumn group. A prevalence study was conducted to compare and analyze the differences in seasonal climate, clinical visit rate, proportion of kinds of injuries, incidence of kinds of injuries and number of daily visits per person. Results There were no significant differences in age and gender between the 2 groups. The temperature and humidity in the autumn group were higher than the spring group. The number of injuries in both groups was 1 392 (181.01%), including 440 in the spring group (131.34%) and 952 in the autumn group (219.35%). The clinical visit rate in the autumn group was significantly higher than those in the spring group. Sports injury and blister were accounted for the highest proportion in all injuries, 41.13% and 23.86% in the spring group and 25.11% and 16.07% in the autumn group, respectively. The incidences of sports injury and blister were 54.03% and 31.34% in spring group and 55.07% and 35.25% in autumn group, respectively. There were no significant difference of the incidences of sports injury and blister between two groups. The incidences of upper respiratory tract infection and allergic diseases in the spring group were higher than those in the autumn group (P 0.05). The number of daily visits per person in the autumn group was significantly higher than that in the spring group. Conclusion Sports injury and blister are the major kinds of injuries in this mountain trek. There are significant differences in the incidence of some injuries, clinical visit rate, and number of daily visits per person with different seasonal conditions. The training medical support should be planed according to the different seasonal climatic conditions.
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