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  1. Article ; Online: With life there is motion. Activity biomarkers signal important health and performance outcomes.

    Friedl, Karl E / Looney, David P

    Journal of science and medicine in sport

    2023  Volume 26 Suppl 1, Page(s) S3–S8

    Abstract: Measures of human motion provide a rich source of health and physiological status information. This paper provides examples of motion-based biomarkers in the form of patterns of movement, quantified physical activity, and characteristic gaits that can ... ...

    Abstract Measures of human motion provide a rich source of health and physiological status information. This paper provides examples of motion-based biomarkers in the form of patterns of movement, quantified physical activity, and characteristic gaits that can now be assessed with practical measurement technologies and rapidly evolving physiological models and algorithms, with research advances fed by the increasing access to motion data and associated contextual information. Quantification of physical activity has progressed from step counts to good estimates of energy expenditure, useful to weight management and to activity-based health outcomes. Activity types and intensity durations are important to health outcomes and can be accurately classified even from carried smart phone data. Specific gaits may predict injury risk, including some re-trainable injurious running or modifiable load carriage gaits. Mood status is reflected in specific types of human movement, with slumped posture and shuffling gait signaling depression. Increased variability in body sway combined with contextual information may signify heat strain, physical fatigue associated with heavy load carriage, or specific neuropsychological conditions. Movement disorders might be identified earlier and chronic diseases such as Parkinson's can be better medically managed with automatically quantified information from wearable systems. Increased path tortuosity suggests head injury and dementia. Rapidly emerging wear-and-forget systems involving global positioning system and inertial navigation, triaxial accelerometry, smart shoes, and functional fiber-based clothing are making it easier to make important health and performance outcome associations, and further refine predictive models and algorithms that will improve quality of life, protect health, and enhance performance.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Quality of Life ; Movement ; Exercise ; Posture ; Biomarkers
    Chemical Substances Biomarkers
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-03
    Publishing country Australia
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1437829-2
    ISSN 1878-1861 ; 1440-2440
    ISSN (online) 1878-1861
    ISSN 1440-2440
    DOI 10.1016/j.jsams.2023.01.009
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  2. Article ; Online: Human performance and medical treatment during cold weather operations - synthesis of a symposium.

    Mekjavic, Igor B / Norheim, Arne Johan / Friedl, Karl E

    International journal of circumpolar health

    2023  Volume 82, Issue 1, Page(s) 2246666

    Abstract: In October 2022, the Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) panel of the NATO Science and Technology Organization convened a review of progress in military biomedical research for cold weather operations. This paper represents a summary of the research ... ...

    Abstract In October 2022, the Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) panel of the NATO Science and Technology Organization convened a review of progress in military biomedical research for cold weather operations. This paper represents a summary of the research presentations and future directions. The importance of realistic training was an overarching theme. Many reported studies took advantage of cold weather training exercises to monitor soldiers' health and performance; these are valuable data, using winter exercises as a platform to gain further knowledge regarding human performance in the cold and represent an excellent extension of controlled laboratory studies. Topics also included prevention of Cold Weather Injuries (CWI); effects of cold weather stressors on cognitive function; field treatment of freezing cold injuries (FCI); and new consideration to injury and trauma care in the cold. Future work programmes re-emphasise development of cold weather training and establishment of consensus diagnostic criteria and treatments for FCI and non-FCI. CWI prevention should take advantage of biomathematical models that predict risk of CWI and provide guidance regarding optimal clothing and equipment and move from group averages to personalised predictions. The publication of selected presentations from the symposium in this special issue increases attention to military cold weather research.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Cold Temperature ; Weather ; Biomedical Research ; Exercise ; Military Personnel
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-16
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1386707-6
    ISSN 2242-3982 ; 1239-9736
    ISSN (online) 2242-3982
    ISSN 1239-9736
    DOI 10.1080/22423982.2023.2246666
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  3. Article ; Online: Use case for predictive physiological models: tactical insights about frozen Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

    Potter, Adam W / Looney, David P / Friedl, Karl E

    International journal of circumpolar health

    2023  Volume 82, Issue 1, Page(s) 2194504

    Abstract: Biomathematical models quantitatively describe human physiological responses to environmental and operational stressors and have been used for planning and real-time prevention of cold injury. These same models can be applied from a military tactical ... ...

    Abstract Biomathematical models quantitatively describe human physiological responses to environmental and operational stressors and have been used for planning and real-time prevention of cold injury. These same models can be applied from a military tactical perspective to gain valuable insights into the health status of opponent soldiers. This paper describes a use case for predicting physiological status of Russian soldiers invading Ukraine using open-source information. In March 2022, media outlets reported Russian soldiers in a stalled convoy invading Ukraine were at serious risk of hypothermia and predicted these soldiers would be "freezing to death" within days because of declining temperatures (down to -20°C). Using existing Army models, clothing data and open-source intelligence, modelling and analyses were conducted within hours to quantitatively assess the conditions and provide science-based predictions. These predictions projected a significant increase in risks of frostbite for exposed skin and toes and feet, with a very low (negligible) risk of hypothermia. Several days later, media outlets confirmed these predictions, reporting a steep rise in evacuations for foot frostbite injuries in these Russian forces. This demonstrated what can be done today with the existing mathematical physiology and how models traditionally focused on health risk can be used for tactical intelligence.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Hypothermia ; Cold Temperature ; Military Personnel ; Freezing ; Ukraine ; Frostbite
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-29
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1386707-6
    ISSN 2242-3982 ; 1239-9736
    ISSN (online) 2242-3982
    ISSN 1239-9736
    DOI 10.1080/22423982.2023.2194504
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  4. Article ; Online: Military applications of soldier physiological monitoring.

    Friedl, Karl E

    Journal of science and medicine in sport

    2018  Volume 21, Issue 11, Page(s) 1147–1153

    Abstract: Wearable physiological status monitoring is part of modern precision medicine that permits predictions about an individual's health and performance from their real-time physiological status (RT-PSM) instead of relying on population-based predictions ... ...

    Abstract Wearable physiological status monitoring is part of modern precision medicine that permits predictions about an individual's health and performance from their real-time physiological status (RT-PSM) instead of relying on population-based predictions informed by estimated human, mission, and environmental/ambient conditions. RT-PSM systems have useful military applications if they are soldier-acceptable and provide important actionable information. Most commercially available systems do not address relevant military needs, typically lack the validated algorithms that make real time computed information useful, and are not open architected to be integrated with the soldier technological ecology. Military RT-PSM development requires committed investments in iterative efforts involving physiologists, biomedical engineers, and the soldier users. Military operational applications include: (1) technological enhancement of performance by providing individual status information to optimize self-regulation, workload distribution, and enhanced team sensing/situational awareness; (2) detection of impending soldier failure from stress load (physical, psychological, and environmental); (3) earliest possible detection of threat agent exposure that includes the "human sensor"; (4) casualty detection, triage, and early clinical management; (5) optimization of individual health and fitness readiness habits; and (6) long term health risk-associated exposure monitoring and dosimetry. This paper is focused on the performance-related applications and considers near term predictions such as thermal-work limits, alertness and fitness for duty status, musculoskeletal fatigue limits, neuropsychological status, and mission-specific physiological status. Each new measurement capability has provided insights into soldier physiology and advances the cycle of invention, lab and field testing, new discovery and redesign.
    MeSH term(s) Attention ; Body Temperature ; Energy Metabolism ; Fatigue ; Humans ; Military Personnel ; Monitoring, Physiologic/methods ; Stress, Physiological ; Stress, Psychological ; Wearable Electronic Devices ; Workload ; Wounds and Injuries/diagnosis
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-06-20
    Publishing country Australia
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1437829-2
    ISSN 1878-1861 ; 1440-2440
    ISSN (online) 1878-1861
    ISSN 1440-2440
    DOI 10.1016/j.jsams.2018.06.004
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  5. Article ; Online: RE: Does host energy metabolism moderate disease resistance?

    Friedl, Karl E

    The Journal of infection

    2017  Volume 76, Issue 2, Page(s) 211–212

    MeSH term(s) Disease Resistance ; Energy Metabolism ; Humans ; Military Personnel ; Pharynx
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-09-29
    Publishing country England
    Document type Letter ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 424417-5
    ISSN 1532-2742 ; 0163-4453
    ISSN (online) 1532-2742
    ISSN 0163-4453
    DOI 10.1016/j.jinf.2017.09.017
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  6. Article ; Online: Integrating women into ground close combat roles: an opportunity to reflect on universal paradigms of arduous training.

    Friedl, Karl E / Gifford, Robert M

    BMJ military health

    2020  Volume 169, Issue 1, Page(s) 1–2

    MeSH term(s) Female ; Humans ; Military Personnel ; Physical Conditioning, Human
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-12
    Publishing country England
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 3011686-7
    ISSN 2633-3775 ; 2633-3767
    ISSN (online) 2633-3775
    ISSN 2633-3767
    DOI 10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001568
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  7. Article ; Online: Human performance and medical treatment during cold weather operations – synthesis of a symposium

    Igor B. Mekjavic / Arne Johan Norheim / Karl E. Friedl

    International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol 82, Iss

    2023  Volume 1

    Abstract: ABSTRACTIn October 2022, the Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) panel of the NATO Science and Technology Organization convened a review of progress in military biomedical research for cold weather operations. This paper represents a summary of the research ...

    Abstract ABSTRACTIn October 2022, the Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) panel of the NATO Science and Technology Organization convened a review of progress in military biomedical research for cold weather operations. This paper represents a summary of the research presentations and future directions. The importance of realistic training was an overarching theme. Many reported studies took advantage of cold weather training exercises to monitor soldiers’ health and performance; these are valuable data, using winter exercises as a platform to gain further knowledge regarding human performance in the cold and represent an excellent extension of controlled laboratory studies. Topics also included prevention of Cold Weather Injuries (CWI); effects of cold weather stressors on cognitive function; field treatment of freezing cold injuries (FCI); and new consideration to injury and trauma care in the cold. Future work programmes re-emphasise development of cold weather training and establishment of consensus diagnostic criteria and treatments for FCI and non-FCI. CWI prevention should take advantage of biomathematical models that predict risk of CWI and provide guidance regarding optimal clothing and equipment and move from group averages to personalised predictions. The publication of selected presentations from the symposium in this special issue increases attention to military cold weather research.
    Keywords Cold weather injuries ; field medical treatment ; cognitive performance ; protective equipment ; protective clothing ; thermal physiology ; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine ; RC955-962
    Subject code 669
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Taylor & Francis Group
    Document type Article ; Online
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  8. Article ; Online: Use case for predictive physiological models

    Adam W. Potter / David P. Looney / Karl E. Friedl

    International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Vol 82, Iss

    tactical insights about frozen Russian soldiers in Ukraine

    2023  Volume 1

    Abstract: ABSTRACTBiomathematical models quantitatively describe human physiological responses to environmental and operational stressors and have been used for planning and real-time prevention of cold injury. These same models can be applied from a military ... ...

    Abstract ABSTRACTBiomathematical models quantitatively describe human physiological responses to environmental and operational stressors and have been used for planning and real-time prevention of cold injury. These same models can be applied from a military tactical perspective to gain valuable insights into the health status of opponent soldiers. This paper describes a use case for predicting physiological status of Russian soldiers invading Ukraine using open-source information. In March 2022, media outlets reported Russian soldiers in a stalled convoy invading Ukraine were at serious risk of hypothermia and predicted these soldiers would be “freezing to death” within days because of declining temperatures (down to −20°C). Using existing Army models, clothing data and open-source intelligence, modelling and analyses were conducted within hours to quantitatively assess the conditions and provide science-based predictions. These predictions projected a significant increase in risks of frostbite for exposed skin and toes and feet, with a very low (negligible) risk of hypothermia. Several days later, media outlets confirmed these predictions, reporting a steep rise in evacuations for foot frostbite injuries in these Russian forces. This demonstrated what can be done today with the existing mathematical physiology and how models traditionally focused on health risk can be used for tactical intelligence.
    Keywords biophysics ; modelling ; thermophysiology ; hypothermia ; frostbite ; military operations ; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine ; RC955-962
    Subject code 006
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Taylor & Francis Group
    Document type Article ; Online
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  9. Article ; Online: The classification of freezing cold injuries - a NATO research task group position paper.

    Norheim, Arne Johan / Sullivan-Kwantes, Wendy / Steinberg, Tuva / Castellani, John / Friedl, Karl E

    International journal of circumpolar health

    2023  Volume 82, Issue 1, Page(s) 2203923

    Abstract: Introduction: Freezing cold injuries (FCI) are a common risk in extreme cold weather operations. Although the risks have long been recognised, injury occurrences tend to be sparse and geographically distributed, with relatively few cases to study in a ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: Freezing cold injuries (FCI) are a common risk in extreme cold weather operations. Although the risks have long been recognised, injury occurrences tend to be sparse and geographically distributed, with relatively few cases to study in a systematic way. The first challenge to improve FCI medical management is to develop a common nomenclature for FCI classification. This is critical for the development of meaningful epidemiological reports on the magnitude and severity of FCI, for the standardisation of patient inclusion criteria for treatment studies, and for the development of clinical diagnosis and treatment algorithms.
    Methodology: A scoping review of the literature using PubMed and cross-checked with Google Scholar, using search terms related to freezing cold injury and frostbite, highlighted a paucity of published clinical papers and little agreement on classification schemes.
    Results: A total of 74 papers were identified, and 28 were included in the review. Published reports and studies can be generally grouped into four different classification schemes that are based on (1) injury morphology; (2) signs and symptoms; (3) pathophysiology; and (4) clinical outcome. The nomenclature in the different classification systems is not coherent and the discrete classification limits are not evidence based.
    Conclusions: All the classification systems are necessary and relevant to FCI medical management for sustainment of soldier health and performance in cold weather operations and winter warfare. Future FCI reports should clearly characterise the nature of the FCI into existing classification schemes for surveillance (morphology, symptoms, and appearance), identifying risk-factors, clinical guidelines, and agreed inclusion/exclusion criteria for a future treatment trial.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Freezing ; Cold Injury/diagnosis ; Cold Injury/therapy ; Cold Temperature ; Frostbite/diagnosis ; Frostbite/therapy ; Risk Factors
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Review ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1386707-6
    ISSN 2242-3982 ; 1239-9736
    ISSN (online) 2242-3982
    ISSN 1239-9736
    DOI 10.1080/22423982.2023.2203923
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  10. Article ; Online: New Concerns About Military Recruits with Metabolic Obesity but Normal Weight ("Skinny Fat").

    Foulis, Stephen A / Hughes, Julie M / Friedl, Karl E

    Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)

    2020  Volume 28, Issue 2, Page(s) 223

    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-01-22
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2230457-5
    ISSN 1930-739X ; 1071-7323 ; 1930-7381
    ISSN (online) 1930-739X
    ISSN 1071-7323 ; 1930-7381
    DOI 10.1002/oby.22724
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