%0 Journal Article
%T The causes of injuries in freestyle snowboarding
%J Medicina sportiva
%D 2007
%A Zygmuntowicz, M.
%A Czerwiński, Edward
%V 11
%N 4
%P 102-104
%X Introduction: Freestyle is the most popular and common style of snowboarding. This style includes jumps, tricks, rail slides and halfpipe.  <p>Aim of the study: The aim of the present study was to estimate the causes of injuries in freestyle snowboarding.</p>  <p>Material and Methods: The research was carried out on 211 persons (42 women and 169 men) in age from 16 to 21 years; average age for both sexes was 19.3 years. The questionnaire was used as a research method.</p>  <p>Results: The most common reasons for injuries were technical mistakes (n=89; 81%), tiredness (n=15; 14%), icy slope (n= 14; 13%), other peoples' mistakes (n=4; 4%) and faulty equipment (n=1; 1%). Falls were the injury mechanism in 77%, collisions account for less than 12% of snowboarding injuries. Most collisions involving snowboarders occur with a stationary object.</p>  <p>Conclusions: Individual snowboarding errors were the most common cause of injury in other study. Falls were the most common mechanism of injury in snowboarding.</p>  <p>Language: en</p>  <p> </p>
%G en
%I Walter de Gruyter
%@ 1429-0022
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10036-007-0019-x