Differing injury patterns in snowboarding and alpine skiing

Sutherland, Alasdair; Holmes, John; Myers, Samuel L.

doi:10.1016/0020-1383(96)00026-5

Cited by 95 publications

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“…Snowboarders, who experience more upper-body injuries than skiers, [21][22][23] may intuitively see helmets as beneficial. Given that they are generally younger and more likely to have participated in athletic endeavors where helmets are the norm (eg, bicycling) they may also be more accustomed to routinely wearing helmets.…”

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confidence: 99%

Testing the risk compensation hypothesis for safety helmets in alpine skiing and snowboarding

et al. 2007

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Objective: The prevalence of helmet use by alpine skiers and snowboarders was estimated and self-reports on risk taking were assessed to test for potential risk compensation when using helmets in these sports. Setting: Skiers and snowboarders were observed and interviewed at 34 resorts in the western United States and Canada. Conclusions: No evidence of risk compensation among helmet wearers was found. Decisions to wear helmets may be part of a risk reduction orientation. Helmet use continues to trend upwards but adoption may be slowing.

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confidence: 99%

Testing the risk compensation hypothesis for safety helmets in alpine skiing and snowboarding

et al. 2007

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“…They further speculate that the increase in spinal injuries between 2000-2005, particularly among snowboarders, may be due to the advent of aerials in terrain parks. Other useful references include the early study of spinal cord injuries by Tarazi et al [6] as well as the literature reviews by Ackery et al [7] in 2007 on spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, by Hagel [8] and Sutherland et al [9] comparing snowboarding and skiing injuries and other studies with a specific focus on SCIs [10][11][12]. While collisions with obstacles (trees in particular) are the major hazard for severe injury to riders outside of terrain parks, jumps represent the major severe injury hazard within terrain parks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Designing, building, measuring, and testing a constant equivalent fall height terrain park jump

et al. 2017

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Previous work has presented both a theoretical foundation for designing terrain park jumps that control landing impact and computer software to accomplish this task. US ski resorts have been reluctant to adopt this more engineered approach to jump design, in part due to questions of feasibility. The present study demonstrates this feasibility. It describes the design, construction, measurement, and experimental testing of such a jump. It improves on the previous efforts with more complete instrumentation, a larger range of jump distances, and a new method for combining jumper-and board-mounted accelerometer data to estimate equivalent fall height, a measure of impact severity. It unequivocally demonstrates the efficacy of the engineering design approach, namely that it is possible and practical to design and build free style terrain park jumps with landing surface shapes that control for landing impact as predicted by the theory.

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“…Upper extremity injuries were significantly more common in snowboarders, while the same was true for lower extremity injuries in skiers. This is a recurrent finding in literature and can be explained by the fact that skiers face forward on two skis and have hard-shelled boots, while snowboarders stand sideways and mainly wear soft boots [12][13][14]. A snowboarder fracturing his distal radius takes a special place, as this entity holds 99 of all 305 (32 %) fractures seen during a 3-year period.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%