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More people are hurt when snowboarding than doing any other outdoor activity. According to the first US nationwide study, snowboarding injuries account for about a quarter of emergency room visits resulting from such activities. Injuries from sledging (11%) and hiking (6%) are the next most common. The most frequent problems (about half) are broken bones and sprains, accounting for half of all cases, with about 7% being for concussions or other brain injuries.
...Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported their results in the journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. They looked at data on nonfatal injuries from outdoor activities treated at 63 hospitals in 2004 and 2005. Annually, almost 213,000 people were treated for such injuries nationwide. About half of those injured were between 10 and 24 years of age, males were injured at the twice the rate of females, and half of the injuries are caused by falls.
Source: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gtXatrhTQonqL83r-EKOTUUV4brwD917EEFO0
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/injury
Wilderness Medical Society: http://www.wms.org/
Another group of US researchers, from the Trauma Program in Columbus, have looked at injuries among children and adolescents who take part in downhill sports. They collected trauma registry data from January 1999 to May 2006 from paediatric trauma centres with an average snowfall of 71 cm per year. They found that there were 57 snowboarders and 22 skiers admitted during the study period.
Forty-one (72%) of snowboarders and 16 (73%) of skiers required operations; 32 (56%) of snowboarders and 9 (41%) of skiers sustained fractures; and 14 (25%) of snowboarders and 6 (27%) of skiers sustained abdominal injuries. All skiing injuries occurred at ski resorts, whereas 12% of snowboard injuries occurred at homes public parks. The researchers noted that the most striking finding was the rising number of snowboarding injuries and the relatively stable rate of skiing injuries.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18485968?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So where does skiing figure in this?
From the above it looks as if it's not even on the injury radar but that can't be true can it?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I love a dangerous sport !
It just shows what we have been saying all along that snowboarding is a gnarlier pastime than gentle skiing 
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Going with the figures above it looks as if there are roughly 1/3 rd the number of skiers so they ougt to amount to arround 8% of the injuries slightly more than hikers but less than those who go out on sleds
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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All rather confusing. A significant proportion of "Snowboarding injuries" sustained at home, or in public parks? I suppose that's possible in the US if you can build a kicker in your backyard but is it also possible that skateboarding is included? And why is skateboarding not identified separately - intuitively it is an injury prone outdoor activity. Neither of the studies cited here look, as the title suggests, at ALL outdoor activities. Also, without participation figures, it's all pretty meaningless. Like citing the number of road injuries without relating it to miles driven. But young males top all the stats for being subject to injury in sports, or from violent crime. And often suicide too. It's mad, bad and dangerous, being a lad. 
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Is "hemorrhoids" classed as an outdoor sporting injury?
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DB, exactly how far "outdoors" are your chalfonts? 
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Whimps.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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pam w,
Part of the confusion is probably because the abstract in the link actually refers to a different study.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Ordhan, someone has to, the rest of 'my crew' are probably off skateboarding or picking their spots somewhere 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Another group of US researchers, from the Trauma Program in Columbus, have looked at injuries among children and adolescents who take part in downhill sports. They collected trauma registry data from January 1999 to May 2006 from paediatric trauma centres with an average snowfall of 71 cm per year. They found that there were 57 snowboarders and 22 skiers admitted during the study period.
Forty-one (72%) of snowboarders and 16 (73%) of skiers required operations; 32 (56%) of snowboarders and 9 (41%) of skiers sustained fractures; and 14 (25%) of snowboarders and 6 (27%) of skiers sustained abdominal injuries. All skiing injuries occurred at ski resorts, whereas 12% of snowboard injuries occurred at homes public parks. The researchers noted that the most striking finding was the rising number of snowboarding injuries and the relatively stable rate of skiing injuries.
Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18485968?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum |
What kind of redonkulous sample is this?
They collected data over 8 seasons and had in total only 69 ski or snowboard injuries. 
The clinics concerned were in areas that had only 71cm annual snowfall?? i.e. in non skiing states.
The study seems to be centred in Ohio world famous for its skiing.
Think people
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fatbob, Just what I was thinking, not a big enough sample.
www.ski-injury.com has data from "nearly 6500 individuals" for example.
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