Assessing Foot Injuries in Infantry Recruits Wearing Different Boots

Medical Corps, Israel Defense Force

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2; Phase 1

Conditions: Back Pain; Ankle Sprain; Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome; Stress Fracture; Blister; Abrasion

Treatments: Device: Experimental infantry boot - DEFINITE-REGULATOR; Device: Control infantry boot

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02810002

IDF-1346-2014

Details and patient eligibility

About

One hundred infantry recruits will be randomly assigned to two groups. Injuries will be monitored.

Full description

One hundred infantry recruits will be randomly assigned to receive experimental infantry boots (DEFINITE-REGULATOR) or standard issued boots (modified Belleville 390 TROP).

Overuse injuries and foot injuries will be monitored over a period of 14 weeks. The intervention group will wear experimental infantry boots and the controls will wear standard issue boots.

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Infantry recruits on selected base

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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98 participants in 2 patient groups

DEFINITE-REGULATOR

Experimental group

Description:

Training with DEFINITE-REGULATOR experiment infantry boots manufactured by Brill Industries, Rishon LeZion, Israel

Treatment:

Device: Experimental infantry boot - DEFINITE-REGULATOR

modified Belleville 390 TROP

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard issue infantry boot

Treatment:

Device: Control infantry boot