The
IDF’s Ground Forces launched a special medical institute which will
give advanced medical treatment to IDF combat soldiers. The institute
will conduct research in all of the different aspects of health in
operational service, from preventing injuries and incidents typical to
combat service to continuous rehabilitation treatments.
Besides
giving medical treatment, the institute will be a national academic
center for diagnosis and assessment. Its job is to provide full and
comprehensive treatment to combat soldiers in order to improve the
quality of their service.
The
institute performs exams and checks including hip rotations made by an
Inclinometer and muscle length checks. Those checks are made to predict
potential problems.
In the Romberg's test, medical staff use a Biodex
machine to test the balance of the soldiers while they are standing on
one foot, eyes closed and hands crossed, and measure how much time the
soldier can maintain his balance.
IDF soldier preforming the Romberg test
In
the LESS test (landing error scoring system), a soldier must jump
twice, the first time to pass the distance of his own height and in the
second time as high as he can. The whole test is photographed and is
then reviewed by a physiotherapist.
“We
want to strengthen medical care at the combat level,” said Chief
Medical Officer Brig. Gen. Prof. Itzik Kraise. “Our mission is to
maintain the health of combat soldiers, and the institute needs to take
us there, through connecting combat soldiers and physiotherapists,
orthopedics, and the academic world.”
“The
institute and the impact it is about to make are not self-evident,”
added Chief of the Infantry and Paratroopers Corps Brig. Gen. Itay
Virub. “For the first time, the institute allows us to diagnose a
fighter not by his injury, but by his mission. In its essence, the
institute contributes to the spirit of our fighters.”
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