Military Health System

A category that describes a Service member with an acute or chronic medical condition that may interfere with their ability to perform their duties while deployed and who requires additional medical screening or a medical waiver to deploy.

The capacity to perform physical activity, primarily characterized by the health-related components of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, body composition, and flexibility.

The overall capacity to perform the physical duty of military service to include combat, consisting of the components of physical fitness.

Having the nutrients needed to facilitate not only good health and readiness but also resilience against the physical and mental stressors associated with military service. Nutritional fitness contributes to resilience by helping service ...

This concept integrates health, resilience, and human performance across eight domains: physical fitness, environmental fitness, medical and dental fitness, nutritional fitness, spiritual fitness, psychological fitness, social fitness, and ...

The ability of a skeletal muscle to perform repeated contractions for an extended period of time. It is measured as the number of submaximal contractions performed or submaximal sustained contraction time. Common muscular tests (e.g., push-ups ...

Damage caused by the transfer of an external mechanical, chemical, electrical, or radiological energy to the body. Most injuries are from mechanical energy transfer that results from either an abrupt high intensity force (acute traumatic ...

The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and the Reserve Components.

An approach to medicine that emphasizes the practice application of the findings of the best available current research.

The body is composed of fat and fat-free mass (which includes body water, bone mineral, proteins, glycogen, and other minerals). “Body fat” is expressed as “a percentage of body fat to total body weight.” Total body fat ...

The functional capacity of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to deliver oxygen to the working muscles, and its use by the muscles to oxidize energy sources to generate energy over sustained periods of time. Essentially, it is the body&rsquo ...

The distribution of body mass between three separate compartments: fat-free tissue or lean body mass, extracelluar water, and adipose tissue.

The maximal force that can be exerted in a single voluntary contraction of a skeletal muscle. The simplest measure of strength involves various one-repetition maximum weight-lifting test (the heaviest weight that can be lifted only once).

The DoD program dedicated to educating Service members and their families on all aspects of dietary supplements. It includes an educational interactive website supported by Service member education, consultations, and training on dietary ...

An organic compound and an essential nutrient that an organism requires in limited amounts.