Snowboarders as well as skiers are increasing in number yearly. As the numbers raise so do the number of injuries. More awareness is being put on snowboard safety and also ski safety as the injuries can be quite serious..
During the course of a year concerning 11 milion skiers as well as 4 million snowboarders in the USA alone are on the slopes at least once. The typical number of visits to the slopes is around 60 million. For every 1000 skiers, there are around 2.5 serious clinical injuries. This comes out to one injury every 430 days of skiing and also snowboarding.
The fatality rate of snowboarders is 40 percent lower than traditional skiers, they are more likely to be struck by skiers gone out of control than the other way around.
When skiers fall they move a lot which triggers them to be 3 to 4 times more probable to crash into something or a person. A snowboard on the other hand acts more like a seat support, protecting against moving. Death typically is caused from hitting something.
One of the most common injury faced by skiers is former cruciate ligament (ACL) strains. Those who were harmed skied much more years, but less days annually, were more likely to be female, are older, as well as dropped less frequently.
Prior to you beginning snowboarding make certain to take some lessons from a qualified instructor. Plus make sure you have the correct equipment. Inevitably you are accountable for your very own safety and security. The much safer you are the more fun you will certainly have on the slopes.
Basketball is a prominent secondary school sporting activity in the USA with 1 million participants every year. A recently published research study by scientists in the Center for Injury Study and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Medical facility is the first to contrast and also define the incident as well as circulation patterns of basketball-related injuries treated in emergency situation divisions as well as the high school sports training setup among teens and also teens.
The study, published online in the Journal of Athletic Training, examined data relating to adolescents 13-19 years of age who were treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) from 2005 to 2010 and those treated in the high school athletic training setting during the 2005–2006 through the 2010–2011 academic years for an injury associated with basketball. Nationally, 1,514,957 patients with basketball-related injuries were treated in EDs and 1,064,551 were treated in the athletic training setting.
The research discovered that generally, injuries that are a lot more quickly detected and dealt with, such as sprains/strains, were most likely to be dealt with onsite by a sports fitness instructor while a lot more severe injuries, such as fractures, that need extra considerable analysis and treatment procedures were much more typically treated in an ED.
“Athletic trainers play a really important role in helping to assess those more mild or moderate injuries and that helps alleviate a burden on the health care system and on families,” said Lara McKenzie, PhD, the study’s lead author and principal investigator in the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s. “They are right there on the sidelines. They are there when some of these things happen. And they can be a great resource for families to evaluate that injury immediately.”
In 1998, the American Medical Association suggested all high school sports programs employ a sports medication device containing a medical professional supervisor as well as an athletic fitness instructor, yet as of 2009, the National Athletic Trainers’ Association approximated just 42 percent of secondary school sports groups met this recommendation. With over half of U.S. secondary school athletes not having access to an athletic fitness instructor during method or competition, a huge majority of hurt players wind up in urgent treatment centers and emergency situation departments, some needlessly.
Dr. McKenzie, also a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, said that while athletic trainers cannot treat every injury, they can make the system more efficient by only sending athletes to the hospital when it is necessary and helping athletes return to play when it is safe.
“We are there to prevent injuries, evaluate them quickly, treat them immediately and try our best to make sure that as we return them to play we do it in the most safe and efficient way possible,” said Kerry Waple, ATC, certified athletic trainer in Sports Medicine at Nationwide Children’s. “There are a lot of injuries that happen that are winding up in urgent cares and emergency departments that don’t need to be there.”
Of the types of injuries that happen in basketball, the foot is commonly affected. Strains and sprains are reported in multiple other studies are the most commonly seen.
With the increasing interest in extreme sports, especially in colder environments, there is greater potential for cold related sports medicine problems. There are basically two types of cold injury: non-freezing cold injury and freezing cold injury. The most well known freezing injury is frostbite and the two most well known non-freezing cold problems are trench foot and chilblains. There are others that all exist on a continuum between the extreme with increasing amounts of seriousness and potential for fatal outcome at the worst extreme. All adventure and extreme athlete need to be aware of the risk and take the appropriate preventative measures and be aware when any of the problems develop as to what they should do about them.
At one extreme are the relatively minor chilblains. These are small patches of red, painful and itchy skin that typically appear on the toes when the skin is warmed up too quickly after it is cold. Chilblains are seasonal and never occur in the warmer climates. They are typically managed by keeping the foot warm and using chilblain creams to massage the area with to stimulate the circulation. They normally heal up relatively quickly unless they keep occurring, in which case they may become chronic.
At the other extreme there is frostbite where the tissues become frozen which is potentially fatal if not addressed immediately as a medical emergency. Often the best outcome is the amputation of a toe, so it is still serious.
Severs disease (or more appropriately called Calcaneal apophysitis) is a common injury to the growth plate at the back of the heel bone in children that play a lot of sport.
The growth plate at the back of the heel is located where the heel contacts the ground during walking and running. The Achilles tendon also inserts into that growth plate, so the pull from the Achilles tendon and the impact of that growth plate in the ground, it can be easy to see why in sports that Severs disease can be quite common. The pain is typically at the back, bottom and side of the heel bone, especially after sport. It can be particularly painful to squeezing of the heel bone.
The management of Severs disease typically involved managing lifestyle and the loads. Physical activities and sports need to be reduced, but this can be very challenging in the child when the parents are not around. ICE, as cold therapy may be help to reduce the pain after sports activity of the pain is bad enough. A shock absorbing heel insert can often be helpful to protect the heel bone from stress and cushion it. This can also lesson the pull from the Achilles tendon on the growth plate.
On 10th June 2019, Golden State Warriors player, Kevin Durant ruptured his Achilles tendon in the 2nd quarter of game 5 of the NBA playoffs against the Toronto Raptors in Toronto. He underwent surgery for the rupture. There is controversy if an achilles tendon rupture should be treated surgically or not, as the outcomes of both are generally considered about the same.
There was also some controversy if he should have played or not as he was only recently getting over a calf strain that could have predisposed him to the Achilles rupture.
The Golden State Warriors went on to win the game 106 to 105 with the Raptors leading the series 3-2. The Raptors however went on to win game six and the series 4-2
