Musculoskeletal injuries and the level of somatic constitution and physical fitness of officer cadets at the Military Academy of Land Forces

Lenart Dariusz. Musculoskeletal injuries and the level of somatic constitution and physical fitness of officer cadets at the Military Academy of Land Forces. Health and Sport. 2016;6(13):146-156. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.243605 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4166 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 754 (09.12.2016). 754 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Author (s) 2016; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 05.12.2016. Revised 20.12.2016. Accepted: 31.12.2016. Musculoskeletal injuries and the level of somatic constitution and physical fitness of officer cadets at the Military Academy of Land Forces Dariusz LENART General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military Academy of Land Forces, Wrocław, Poland Lt. Col. Dariusz LENART, PhD 109 Czajkowskiego Street 51-150 Wrocław Poland E-mail: d.lenart@wso.wroc.pl Mobile phone: 886752126 Abstract Purpose. The educational process requires a commitment from officer cadets to develop and maintain physical fitness as a basis for implementing various training tasks. This process is often associated with numerous overloads and musculoskeletal injuries in students. Therefore, the aim of the study was to assess whether injuries and overloads suffered during the training process at the Military Academy of Land Forces differentiated somatic constitution, physical fitness and functional parameters of the respiratory system in the officer cadets. Methods. The research material was gathered as a result of testing officer cadets of the Military Academy of Land Forces in Wrocław in 2011-2015. 89 men were covered by the study. The average age of the examined cadets was 22.9 years. Examinations of the students included anthropometric measurements, physical fitness tests, spirometry and a survey. Results. The results indicate the presence of significant differences in the somatic construction of the officer cadets. Similar physical fitness and the level of the respiratory system efficiency characterized separated groups of students in terms of suffered injuries. Conclusions. Previous injuries turned out to be a factor, which significantly differentiated somatic constitution of the officer cadets. The advantageous, from the health point of view, mean values of the body height, lean body mass, muscle mass and bone mass characterized students, who during the four-year education at the military academy did not suffer musculoskeletal injuries. Past injuries were not also a factor, which substantially diversified the level of functional characteristics