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Lower extremity injuries in snowboarders.

The popularity of skiing and snowboarding has increased tremendously over the past few decades. Whereas skiing has been an established winter sport for some time, snowboarding was created only in the 1960s. The great surge in popularity of snowboarding was sparked by its inclusion in the 1998 Winter Olympics. With increased participation in these winter activities has come a tremendous rise in ...

The Personality of Freestyle Snowboarders

Concussion Among Youth Skiers and Snowboarders

Objective: There are limited data regarding concussion among youth skiers and snowboarders. The objective of this study was to examine the frequency of concussion among helmeted and unhelmeted youth skiers and snowboarders presenting to trauma centers. Methods: Subjects 18 years or younger with a skior snowboard-related injury were studied using data from the National Trauma Data Bank from 2009...

Injuries in elite and recreational snowboarders.

BACKGROUND The relatively young sport of snowboarding exhibits high injury rates. The current efforts to characterise the injury pattern of snowboarders focus largely on the general snowboard population and upper extremity injuries, the most common injury site in snowboarders as a whole. METHODS In an effort to describe the current published information available on snowboarding injuries in t...

The Physical Profile of Elite Boardercross Snowboarders

Boardercross Snowboarding is an increasingly popular sport where snowboarders race through a downhill course for the fastest time. Boardercross has recently become an Olympic Sport; however, limited data exists regarding these athletes’ physical characteristics. This study gathered data to further define the physical profile of an elite boardercross snowboarder so that coaches and athletes will...