The use of medication and alcohol in recreational downhill skiers: Results of a survey including 816 subjects in Tyrol

Menz, Verena; Philippe, Marc; Pocecco, Elena; Ruedl, Gerhard; Woldrich, Tomas; Sommersacher, R.; Burtscher, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.jsams.2019.04.014

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“…For traditional winter sports of skiing and snowboarding, alcohol involvement is 2.1% [25]. However, in one study of Austrian skiers, it was 30.0% for males and 16% for females [26]. In a British study of skiers admitted for the care of an injury compared to a non-injured cohort [27], injury was 7.1 times more common in those with alcohol consumption.…”

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Events Due to Snowblower Use Seen in US Emergency Departments From 2003 Through 2018

Loder¹,

Solanki²

2020

Cureus

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To comprehensively analyze emergency department (ED) visits associated with snowblower use in the United States. Methods Data on National Electronic Injury Surveillance System ED visits due to snow blowers from 2003 through 2018 were analyzed by age, sex, diagnosis, anatomic location of the injury, and year, month, or weekday. The mechanism of injury and alcohol use were noted. Statistical analyses were performed, accounting for the weighted, stratified nature of the data. Results There were an estimated 91,451 patients with an average age of 51 years; 91.2% were male. Amputation, fracture, or laceration accounted for 43,524 (47.6%) of the ED visits. The mechanism of injury was placing the hand into the chute (44.5%), a fall/slip (13.3%), medical events (6.1%), and miscellaneous (33.8%). Most (68.9%) occurred at home. Alcohol was rarely involved (0.4%). There were 648 deaths; 647 were due to cardiac events. The five major injury diagnoses were fracture (25.9%), laceration (20.2%), strain/sprain (15.0%), amputation (11.2%), and contusion/abrasion (10.2%); 99.8% of the amputations involved fingers. The incidence of ED snowblower visits was 1.845 per 100,000 US population with no change over time. There was a general correlation between the number of visits and the annual snow cover. Conclusions Ample opportunity for injury prevention exists, as there was no change in the incidence over time. Cardiac events accounted for essentially all of the deaths.

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Events Due to Snowblower Use Seen in US Emergency Departments From 2003 Through 2018

Loder¹,

Solanki²

2020

Cureus

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“…More specifically, it was aimed to assess the feasibility and the potential outcomes of an intervention program organized as a part of the standard didactic activities in an elementary and middle school. Previous studies suggested that short activities integrated in the curricular school time could promote cognitive, emotional, and social well-being [ 4 , 43 ].…”

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“…The rationale to perform this comparison of a sitting versus a movement-based meditation can be summed up in four points: Motor activity has been linked to wellbeing and development of cognitive functions in children [ 4 ]; Among different types of motor activities, cognitively engaging and mindful movements have provided the most consistent evidence of positive impact on high-level cognition [ 86 , 87 ]; The implementation of short cognitively challenging motor activities in schools seems both a feasible and efficacious strategy for supporting physical and psychological well-being [ 43 ]; As QMT has been observed to induce neuroplasticity in adults [ 46 ], children, who have still not reached the zone of optimal cognitive functioning, could obtain greater benefit from its practice. …”

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“…Active breaks are short (5 to 15 min) sessions of physical activity aimed to reduce sitting time, stimulate physical and cognitive activation, and promote on-task behaviors during school time [ 40 ]. Active breaks are associated with enhanced cognitive functions [ 41 , 42 ], especially when involving cognitively engaging movements [ 43 , 44 , 45 ]. Advantages of such intervention strategies, in addition to improving well-being, are that they are time sparing and require little space and cost.…”

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Age-Related Differential Effects of School-Based Sitting and Movement Meditation on Creativity and Spatial Cognition: A Pilot Study

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Psychophysical well-being can be supported during development by the integration of extra-curricular activities in scholastic settings. These activities can be implemented in different forms, ranging from physical activities to sitting meditation practices. Considering that both such activities are thought to affect children’s psychophysical development, a movement-based meditation that combines the two approaches−in the form of a short daily activity−could represent a powerful tool to promote healthy physical and mental development. Consequently, the current pilot study aimed to examine the effect of short daily school-based sitting and movement meditation trainings on creativity and spatial cognition. Utilizing a crossover design, we evaluated their feasibility and efficacy at different ages among children (n = 50) in 5th to 8th grade. We observed that 5 weeks of daily training in sitting and movement meditation techniques improved children’s cognition differently. Specifically, younger children showed greater creativity and better spatial cognition following the movement-based meditation, while older children showed greater enhancement in these areas following sitting meditation training. This suggests that training can affect children’s cognition differently depending on their developmental stage. We discuss these results within the framework of embodied and grounded cognition theories. Information on feasibility and age-related effect sizes derived from the current study paves the way for future well-powered larger-scale efficacy studies on different forms of school-based interventions to cognitive development promotion.

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“…We read with great interest the article by Menz et al, entitled "The use of medication and alcohol in recreational downhill skiers: results of a survey including 816 subjects in Tyrol. 1 The authors reported the prevalence of medication use and alcohol consumption in a representative population of recreational downhill skiers. The finding that 63% of skiers under medication concomitantly consumed alcohol is alarming.…”

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The importance of nicotine use among winter sports athletes especially in skiers

Zandonai

Chiamulera

2019

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

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The use of medication and alcohol in recreational downhill skiers: Results of a survey including 816 subjects in Tyrol

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Events Due to Snowblower Use Seen in US Emergency Departments From 2003 Through 2018

Events Due to Snowblower Use Seen in US Emergency Departments From 2003 Through 2018

Age-Related Differential Effects of School-Based Sitting and Movement Meditation on Creativity and Spatial Cognition: A Pilot Study

The importance of nicotine use among winter sports athletes especially in skiers

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