Snowboarding

The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine: An IOC Medical Commission Publication, Epidemiology of Injury in Olympic Sports

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 447-472

  Russell, Kelly ^a   Hagel, Brent E ^a   Goulet, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

"Big Jump" competitions and highest injury rate; Brain injury rates 0.05 per 1,000 snowboarder days; Common ski patrol reported injuries and suspected fractures; Hospital Admissions and Trauma Registry Reports injury type by anatomical location; Olympic sport for 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan (Olympic Movement, 2007); Proportion of injuries by anatomical location; Self reported injuries; Ski patrol reports; Ski patrol reported injury rates; Snowboarding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955754137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444316872.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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