Incidence of trauma related stress fractures and shin splints in male and female army recruits: retrospective case study

The Ministry of Defence's equal opportunities policy, which was introduced in 1993, means that female recruits to army training regiments have been exposed to the same rigorous, physically demanding exercise as men. We noticed a fourfold increase in referrals between 1994 and 1996 and decided to investigate whether this reflected increased referral of women.