University of the Incarnate Word officials will help the U.S. Air Force reduce injuries and related costs during basic training via a grant worth nearly $1 million.
UIW officials will work with Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on a study called “Athletic Trainer Integration in U.S. Air Force Basic Training: Reducing Injury and Related Costs. All of the Air Force’s basic training takes place at Lackland in San Antonio.
The 30-month, $980,000 project will “embed” two certified athletic trainers within an Air Force squadron of 1,200 Trainee Airmen at Lackland. The goal of the project is to apply a sports-medicine model of patient care to Air Force basic training with the hope of reducing the military’s costs related to musculoskeletal injury.
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