Injuries among Portuguese skiers and snowboarders

With the introduction of Snowboarding into the world there has been a huge increase in the number of winter sports enthusiasts. This study’s aim is to analyse and compare the injury profiles associated to Por-tuguese Skiers and Snowboarders. A total of 218 individuals completed a 2 years retrospecti...

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Autores: Martins, André, Silva, Bruno, Camões, Miguel, Pereira, Joel, Clemente, Filipe Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/86846
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.6018/sportk.413231
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/86846
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Snowboard
Injuries
Ski
Winter Sports
Epidemiology
Demographic
Portuguese
Lesiones
Deportes de invierno
Epidemiología
Demografía
Portugueses
CDU::7 Bellas artes::79 - Diversiones. Espectáculos. Cine. Teatro. Danza. Juegos.Deportes
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Sumario:With the introduction of Snowboarding into the world there has been a huge increase in the number of winter sports enthusiasts. This study’s aim is to analyse and compare the injury profiles associated to Por-tuguese Skiers and Snowboarders. A total of 218 individuals completed a 2 years retrospective questionnaire, of which 87 (40%) of them were Skiers, 113 (52%) Snowboarders and 18 (8%) practised both sports. A total of 107 (49%) subjects were injured, with 42 (39.3%) Ski related and 72 (67.3%) Snowboard related injuries. The most frequent body location of injury was the knee in both sports (59.5% in Ski and 31.9% in Snowboard). In conclu-sion we observe that Snowboarding has a higher risk of injury compared to Skiing.