Physical Fitness Tests' Ability To Predict Injuries In Officer Candidates And Their Association To FMS

Determine whether the pull-up to exhaustion (PUE) test, 2-min abdominal crunch (AC), and 3-mi run for time (RT) were predictive of subsequent injury occurrence in Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) training. Also we assessed the association between specific PFT and FMS tests. Subjects included 874 male (22.4+ or -2.7) candidates enrolled in either six (n = 447) or ten (n = 427) weeks of OCS. Prior to OCS, candidates completed a PUE, 2-min AC, 3-mi RT, and FMS. FMS consisted of deep squat, hurdle step, inline lunge (IL), shoulder mobility, active straight leg raise (SLR), push-up, and rotary stability tests. Injury incidence data were gathered throughout training and grouped as "any", "overuse", or "traumatic". Candidates were 1.71 times more likely to suffer an injury if they had a RT > or = 20:53 (p < 0.001); 36.9% of persons with a RT > or = 20:53 suffered an injury compared with 25.5% of those with a RT < 20:53.