The effects of military body armour on the lower back and knee mechanics during toe-touch and two-legged squat tasks.
The effects of military body armour on the lower back and knee mechanics during toe-touch and two-legged squat tasks.
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在脚趾接触和两腿深蹲任务中,军用防弹衣对下背部和膝盖力学的影响。
DOI:
10.1080/00140139.2014.970589
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Shapiro,Robert
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作者:
Phillips,Megan;Bazrgari,Babak;Shapiro,Robert
While effective in the prevention of otherwise lethal injuries, military body armour (BA) has been suggested to reduce warfighter's performance and increase injury-related musculoskeletal conditions. Providing the significant role of joint biomechanics in both performance and risk of injury, the immediate and prolonged effects of wearing BA on biomechanics of the lower back and knee during toe-touch (TT) and two-legged squat (TLS) tasks were investigated. The immediate effects of BA were an increase of >40 ms (p≤ 0.02) in flexion duration of the dominant joint and an ∼1 s (p≤ 0.02) increase in overall task duration as well as an ∼18% (p= 0.03) decrease in the lumbopelvic rhythm ratio near the mid-range of trunk flexion. In general the prolonged duration of wearing BA (i.e. 45 min of walking) was not found to cause more changes in our measures than walking without BA.