From Marine Corps Times' staff writer James Sanborn:
Injured recruits and candidates have a new gravity-defying tool to help get them back into training more quickly and on their way to pinning on the eagle, globe and anchor.
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Both recruit depots and the Officer Candidates School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., are using what are dubbed "anti-gravity" treadmills, which support part of a patient's weight to reduce impact as he walks or runs. The devices have gained wide acceptance by hospitals, professional sports teams and now the Marine Corps as a way to get patients with lower-extremity injuries back on their feet as rapidly as possible. A patient slips into a special pair of shorts that zip into a giant air bladder, which is then inflated to support the patient's weight.
Read the rest of James' story here.
