Injuries among Portuguese skiers and snowboarders

  1. Martins, A. 1
  2. Silva, B. 2
  3. Camões, M. 1
  4. Pereira, J. 1
  5. Clemente, FM. 3
  1. 1 School of Sports and Leisure, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Melgaço (Portugal)
  2. 2 School of Sports and Leisure, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Melgaço (Portugal); Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health and Human Development (CIDESD), Vila Real (Portugal); Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences, University of Vigo, Pontevedra (Spain)
  3. 3 School of Sports and Leisure, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Melgaço (Portugal); Institute of Telecommunications, Covilhã (Portugal)
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Journal:
Sport TK: revista euroamericana de ciencias del deporte

ISSN: 2340-8812,  2254-4070

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 9

Issue: 1

Pages: 7-14

Type: Article

DOI: 10.6018/SPORTK.413231 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDIGITUM editor

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Abstract

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 Portuguese 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 conclusion we observe that Snowboarding has a higher risk of injury compared to Skiing.

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