ReviewPhysiological reports2022
Physiological impact of load carriage exercise: Current understanding and future research directions.
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- Energy Expenditure of Special Forces Soldiers in Relation to Equipment Load and Movement Speed.Nutrients · 2025Article
- 25 years of military load carriage.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- Novel approaches to evaluate characteristics that affect military load carriage.BMJ military health · 2025Review
- Rehabilitating Soldiers for Load Carriage Tasks: An International Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Repeated bouts of load carriage alter indirect markers of exercise-induced muscle damage, liver enzymes, and oxygen-carrying capacity in male soldiers.Physiological reports · 2025Article
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- Neuromuscular Responses to 5 K Time Trial Load Carried by Spanish Army Marines.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effects of a 30 K Military Loaded Carriage on the Neuromuscular System in Spanish Army Marines.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Does a Standardized Load Carriage Increase Spatiotemporal Gait Asymmetries in Police Recruits? A Population-based Study.Military medicine · 2025Article
- Thoracic load carriage impairs the acute physiological response to hypoxia in healthy males.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Adding a sustained attention task to a physically demanding cycling exercise exacerbates neuromuscular fatigue and impairs cognitive performance in both normoxia and hypoxia.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Spatiotemporal Gait Asymmetries Remain Unaffected by Increased Load Carriage in Professional Intervention Police Officers.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Carrying Police Load Increases Gait Asymmetry in Ground Reaction Forces and Plantar Pressures Beneath Different Foot Regions in a Large Sample of Police Recruits.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The test-retest reliability of physiological and perceptual responses during treadmill load carriage.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Load carriage physiology in normoxia and hypoxia.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Effect of the Law Enforcement Duty Belt on Muscle Activation during Hip Hinging Movements in Young, Healthy Adults.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2023Article
- Physiological impact of load carriage exercise: Current understanding and future research directions.Physiological reports · 2022Review
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5 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Load carriage (LC) refers to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and/or load-bearing apparatus that is mostly worn over the thoracic cavity. A commonplace task across various physically demanding occupational groups, the mass being carried during LC duties can approach the wearer's body mass. When compared to unloaded exercise, LC imposes additional physiological stress that negatively impacts the respiratory system by restricting chest wall movement and altering ventilatory mechanics as well as circulatory responses. Consequently, LC activities accelerate the development of fatigue in the respiratory muscles and reduce exercise performance in occupational tasks. Therefore, understanding the implications of LC and the effects specific factors have on physiological capacities during LC activity are important to the implementation of effective mitigation strategies to ameliorate the detrimental effects of thoracic LC. Accordingly, this review highlights the current physiological understanding of LC activities and outlines the knowledge and efficacy of current interventions and research that have attempted to improve LC performance, whilst also highlighting pertinent knowledge gaps that must be explored via future research activities.
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