Understanding and managing the relationship between soldier burden, mobility and susceptibility to enemy fire in the Canadian Armed Forces

了解和管理加拿大武装部队中士兵负担、机动性和对敌人火力的敏感性之间的关系

• 批准号: 567175-2021
• 负责人: Graham, Ryan
• 金额: $ 11.66万
• 依托单位: University of Ottawa
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=720605
• 关键词: Understanding; managing; relationship; between; soldier

The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) play an essential role to Canadians, contributing to the security andco-operation of Canada both domestically and internationally. Dismounted soldiers carry heavy loads andequipment on their body while completing work-related tasks with heavy physical demands. Given theseoccupational demands, it is not surprising that soldiers experience a high proportion of musculoskeletal injuriesat work. A trade-off exists between carrying heavy loads that are necessary for operational effectiveness andthe associated deficits in mobility, which can reduce performance and potentially lead to an increased exposureto enemy fire. In addition, there are other factors that can contribute to reductions in mobility in soldiers. Theaim of this work is to determine how to manage and understand the relationships between heavy carried loads,musculoskeletal injury risk and mobility in soldiers during highly physically demanding tasks. We aim toexplore these issues through a variety of approaches, including observing soldiers during training exercises thatare similar to exposures experienced while deployed. Based on these experiences, we will develop systematictesting procedures to isolate the movements that make up the work-related tasks and test the effect of load in alaboratory environment. Finally, we will use statistical procedures and machine learning approaches in order topredict the mobility of soldiers in novel loading scenarios that were not previously tested. The goal of thiswork is to contribute to an understanding of how carrying heavy loads can increase injury risk and reduceperformance in soldiers. Strong government-industry partnerships with Defence Research DevelopmentCanada (DRDC) and Canadian firm Mawashi Science and Technology will ensure project success as well asthe dual-use of the research findings.

加拿大武装部队（CAF）对加拿大人起着至关重要的作用，在国内和国际上为加拿大的安全和行动做出了贡献。卸下的士兵承担着沉重的负荷和安息，同时完成了与工作相关的任务，他们的身体需求量很大。考虑到这些占领的要求，士兵经历了很大比例的肌肉骨骼伤害，这并不奇怪。在承载对操作有效性所必需的重负荷与流动性赤字所必需的重负荷之间存在权衡，这可以降低性能并有可能导致Exposureto敌人的火灾增加。此外，还有其他因素可能导致士兵流动性的减少。这项工作的戏剧是确定如何在高度要求的任务中管理和理解士兵的重载荷，肌肉骨骼损伤风险和流动性之间的关系。我们的目标是通过各种方法来探索这些问题，包括在训练练习中观察士兵，这些练习与部署时经历的暴露相似。基于这些经验，我们将开发系统攻击程序，以隔离组成与工作相关的任务的运动并测试在铝业环境中负载的效果。最后，我们将使用统计程序和机器学习方法，以使士兵在以前未测试过的新型负载方案中的移动性。这项工作的目的是有助于理解承载重负荷如何增加伤害风险并降低士兵的绩效。与国防研究开发加拿大（DRDC）和加拿大公司Mawashi科学技术与国防研究开发加州（DRDC）建立强大的政府行业合作伙伴关系将确保项目成功以及研究结果的双重使用。