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Journal Article
Physiological impact of load carriage exercise: Current understanding and future research directions
2022
Overview
Load carriage (LC) refers to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and/or load‐bearing apparatus that is mostly worn over the thoracic cavity. A commonplace task across various physically demanding occupational groups, the mass being carried during LC duties can approach the wearer's body mass. When compared to unloaded exercise, LC imposes additional physiological stress that negatively impacts the respiratory system by restricting chest wall movement and altering ventilatory mechanics as well as circulatory responses. Consequently, LC activities accelerate the development of fatigue in the respiratory muscles and reduce exercise performance in occupational tasks. Therefore, understanding the implications of LC and the effects specific factors have on physiological capacities during LC activity are important to the implementation of effective mitigation strategies to ameliorate the detrimental effects of thoracic LC. Accordingly, this review highlights the current physiological understanding of LC activities and outlines the knowledge and efficacy of current interventions and research that have attempted to improve LC performance, whilst also highlighting pertinent knowledge gaps that must be explored via future research activities. This report provides a synthesis of the historic and recent research in occupational load carriage to bring together the current understanding and future direction for research in this important area.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc,John Wiley and Sons Inc,Wiley
