TYPICAL PARACHUTE INJURIES

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Parachute jumps at the Parachute School have increased progressively from their inception in 1941 to the time of this writing. Parachute injuries at the Parachute School have proportionately decreased progressively until at the present time a "jumper" has roughly only 1 per cent chance of being injured in any way in any one parachute descent. This remarkable increase in parachute activities, in spite of the decrease in injury rate, establishes a wealth of clinical material for study. This clinical material has been used in preparing this report. Certain types of training injuries and jumping fractures have occurred repeatedly until there now exist several clinical entities recognized as typical parachute injuries. These will be discussed subsequently. In this report we have analyzed the material at hand according to: The type of injury most common to each of the four training stages and the anatomy, physiology and, where possible, the mechanics

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