231 Safety week ski municipality, Norway

Occurrence and trends in ski injuries in Norway.

OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of ski injuries in Norway and to describe the changes between 1990 and 1996. METHODS All ski injuries (7966) treated at four hospitals providing health care to a defined population of about 11% of the Norwegian population were registered prospectively from 1990 to 1996. For this study, 6462 injuries sustained in cross country skiing, downhill skiing, telemark...

[Typical ski sport injuries and safety bindings].

Ski injury predictive analytics from massive ski lift transportation data

Ski injury research is traditionally studied on small-scale observational studies where risk factors from univariate and multivariate statistical models are extracted. In this article, a large-scale ski injury observational study was conducted by analyzing skier transportation data from six consecutive seasons. Logistic regression and chi-square automatic interaction detection decision tree mod...

To Ski or Not to Ski on Replaced Hips

A report on two friends Since the outbreak of peace and prosperity in Europe forty years ago skiing has become one of the most popular pastimes , and now many of its ageing devotees have had their hips replaced, they are still sound in wind, are they also sound in limb? They feel physically restored, the snows and the slopes beckon, should they accept the challenge or should 'wiser councils pre...

Global Road Safety Week — May 6–12, 2013