Replying to ski related injuries: the story

I went to a lecture/presentation tonight on how to prevent skiing injuries and thought I might share what I found…

-Females are 2.3% more prone to receive ACL injuries. Might be helped by practicing strengthening exercises but there’s really not much that can be done to prevent this. Muscles behave differently. Females tend to be more cautious in nature allowing for small injuries (just as much pain) rather than larger ones.

-Females are most likely to hurt an arm or wrist. There is a difference in how mass is distributed throughout the female’s body which causes balance to be more behind, so throwing out an arm to brace a fall is common.

-Shaped skis decrease balance in landing jumps. The ski can’t tell which way to turn and has trouble staying straight (since it was made for turning).

-Parabolic skis are NOT for beginners, although…skiers on parabolic skis, regardless of the level, are at the same risk of injury.

-Since the bindings on skiboards don’t release (except if you’re that kid from Rutland whose Snowblade fell off in the X-Games) skiboarders are 3.9 times more likely to have lower leg injuries.

-Freestyle jumpers are 3 times as likely to be injured on skiboards.

-ACL injury risk is low with skiboards.

-50% of skiboard injuries are to the lower leg (20.6% for other forms of alpine skiing).

-9-16 year olds are 20 times more likely to have a tibia fracture from using skiboards.
17+ years old are 19 times higher.

“Non-release bindings have no place on skiboards.”

-5% of 9-16 year olds out of the skiing population use skiboards yet, skiboards account for 50% of lower leg injuries in that age group.

THE END. The rest of it was basically worthless. I convinced the professors to let me redo their video though! Wahooo!