TY - JOUR
AU1 - Chissell, Hugh
AU2 - Feagin, John
AU3 - Warme, Winston
AU4 - Lambert, Kenneth
AU5 - King, Paul
AU6 - Johnson, Lanny
AB - SportsMed.1996Sep;22(3): 141·145 CURRENT OPINION 0112·1642/96/0009-0141/502.50/0 Limited. All rights reserved. Hugh R. Chissell, John A. Feagin Jr, Winston J. Warme, Kenneth L. Lambert, Paul King and Lanny Johnson Department of Sports Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA In the US, recreational skiing has been growing ing, but risks injury to the ankle. Unlike the high in popularity since the Winter Olympic Games held incidence of knee injuries in skiers, ankle and up­ per limb injuries are more common in snow­ at Lake Placid in 1932. From 10 000 participants in 1935 there are now an estimated 14.5 million boarders. leisure skiers in the US[1·3] and up to 200 million 1. Alpine Skiing worldwide)4] Ski injury rates decreased from about 5 to 8 per 1.1 Knee Injuries 1000 skiers/day in the 1950s to about 2 to 3 per 1000 skiers/day in the early 1980s and have remained The modern binding provides excellent ankle fairly constant since (fig. 1).[3,5-7] The total number and tibial protection as the forces around the ankle of skiing injuries in the US is estimated to be are translated to the boot and hence the binding, but 600 000 per year with beginners between 3 
TI - Trends in Ski and Snowboard Injuries
JF - Sports Medicine
DO - 10.2165/00007256-199622030-00001
DA - 2012-10-07
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/trends-in-ski-and-snowboard-injuries-fqvCVcPmpG
SP - 141
EP - 145
VL - 22
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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