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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_200304/ai_n9224882 Therefore, patellofemoral pain is the second most common symptom, preceded only by tibial bone stress reaction. Patellofemoral pain has been reported to cause a loss of 6.8 days per injury or 0.6 days per recruit during basic training.1 These data were confirmed by other studies in which patellofemoral overuse was reported as one of the main reasons for loss of time.4,5http://www.odu.edu/ao/instadv/quest/militarymed.htmlLower-extremity musculoskeletal injuries resulting from physical training, such as ankle sprains, knee and thigh injuries, and shin splints, are particularly prevalent in the military population.http://tinyurl.com/8gtxrFor both men and women recruits, all of the most frequently occurring injuries, reported and unreported, were anatomically distributed from the knee downward.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7984296&dopt=AbstractInjuries to the knee, lower leg, and ankle accounted for more than 80% of all injuries.
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