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Injuries
are damage to a body caused by an external energy source. When the damage requires a medical visit, the type of injury is captured for Soldiers in their medical record. The monitoring of Soldier injuries includes categorizing the injuries by the type of causal energy source. Energy sources can be:
- Mechanical (i.e, acute trauma such as fractures or strains from a single event, or cumulative overuse damage from the body’s repeated stress against an object or surface)
- Environmental (including weather-related heat or cold, altitude/pressure, lightning)
- Chemical or biochemical (poisonings)
- Non-environmental (e.g., fire burns, electrocutions)
- Other (e.g., medical complications, intentional/abuse)
