... mitigation potential of a landing surface that limits EFH. An instrumented 50th-percentile male Hybrid III anthropomorphic test device (ATD) fitted with snowboarding equipment was used to determine the head accelerations, cervical spine loads, and lumbar spine loads associated with landing on a snow surface...

... The aim of this study is to examine the correlation between helmet use and on-slope ski conduct. During the months of February and March 2009, eight trained interviewers asked 1550 skiers and snowboarders at 20 ski resorts in the German and French speaking parts of Switzerland a series...

... Collisions with obstacles, such as trees, rocks, and other people, are a common occurrence in the sports of skiing and snowboarding. Once an obstacle becomes visible, whether or not the skier has time to avoid it is largely determined by that skier's reaction time (RT)—the time it takes...

..., giving an injury rate of 1.35 injured per 1000 skier/boarder days. Most of the injuries occurred during alpine skiing (64 %) and snowboarding (31 %), compared to telemark skiing (2 %) and skiboarding (3 %). Wrist injuries were common among injured snowboarders (25 %) compared to 4–6 % for the others...

... an injury rate of 1.4 injured per 1000 skier/boarder days. Most of the injuries occurred during alpine skiing (49–58 %). Snowboarding injuries peaked with 45 % in the middle of the period decreasing to 35 % the last two seasons. Telemark skiing and skiboarding each accounted for less than 10...

... an injury rate of 1.5 injured per 1000 skier/boarder days. Most of the injuries occurred during alpine skiing (58 %) and snowboarding (35 %), compared to telemark skiing (3 %) and skiboarding (4 %). Wrist injuries were common among injured snowboarders (26 %) compared to only 5 % each for the others ( P...

... The introduction of eight-seat chairlifts has raised the concern of increased risk of collision, falling, and possibly injury while unloading due to the greater number of passengers. This study aimed to investigate: if there was a difference in the fall rate between skiers and snowboarders...

... alpine skiers, beginners, and females. snowsport injuries safety skiing snowboarding protective equipment Tracey Dickson1 Journal of ASTM International, Vol. 5, No. 4 Paper ID JAI101433 Available online at www.astm.org Behaviors and Attitudes Towards Snowsport Safety in Australia ABSTRACT...

... The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported in 1999 that head injuries represent approximately 14 % of all skiing and snowboarding injuries. Cadman and Macnab showed that children were twice as likely as other age groups to sustain injuries to the head, face, and neck. While helmets...

... A study by Nakaguchi and Tsutsumi [“Mechanisms of Snowboarding-Related Severe Head Injury: Shear Strain Induced by the Opposite-Edge Phenomenon,” J. Neurosurg, Vol. 97, 2002, pp. 542–548] showed that 68 % of all snowboarders' head injuries were associated with backward falls, with beginner...

... While using ski lifts, snowboarders take the rear foot out of the binding. Therefore, steering abilities of the board are reduced, which leads to falls, potentially followed by injuries. In the past, several kinds of anti-slip pads have been introduced to provide friction between the board...

... We applied the principles of visual perception, light, and optics to quantify the influence of ambient sunlight on the ability of skiers and snowboarders to perceive ground contours on a ski slope. To this end, we systematically measured the visibility of the terrain on ski runs under a variety...

... an injury rate of 1.5 injured per 1000 skier/boarder days. Most of the injuries occurred during alpine skiing (49 %) and snowboarding (43 %), whereas telemark skiing and skiboarding each accounted for 4 % of the injuries. Wrist injuries were common among injured snowboarders (28 %) compared to only 6...

... This study documents fatalities and risk factors in alpine winter sports. The authors have tracked all known fatalities ( n =854) occurring to recreational skiers and snowboarders within the boundaries of ski resorts in the United States since January 1978 through the winter of 2004/05. Data...

... According to a 1999 report by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, head injuries represent approximately 14 % of all skiing and snowboarding injuries. In a recent retrospective study of patients treated for snowboarding-related head injuries, Nakaguchi and Tsutsumi (2002) found...

... A central ski patrol-based registration of skiing and snowboarding injuries was performed by the Norwegian Ski Lift Association during the winter seasons 2000/2001 and 2001/2002. A control material of 3002 randomly sampled uninjured skiers was collected from the same ski resorts throughout...

.... A total of 372 skiing accidents were reported, 64.5 % concerning men, 35.5 % women. While the majority of ski hall visitors are skiers (57.9 %) compared to snowboarders (40.1 %, tire-tubing or others: 2.0 %), more accidents happened to snowboarders (55.6 %) than to skiers (33.3 %; tubing: 3.8 %, others...

... A central ski patrol-based registration of skiing and snowboarding injuries was performed by the Norwegian Ski Lift Association during the winter seasons 1998/1999 and 1999/2000. Totals of 562 injured skiers and 41582 000 lift transports were recorded during the two seasons, giving an injury...

... This study looks at trauma-related death rates and modalities of death between snowboarding and skiing. The snowboarding population is younger and has a higher percentage of males. Thus, based on the demographics of risk taking, one would expect the snowboarding fatality rate to be higher...

... Snowboarding has witnessed an enormous growth in popularity and participation in the last decade. A prospective study was instituted to ascertain the injuries suffered during snowboarding. From 1988 through 1996 questionnaires were collected from 47 medical facilities within the state...