מאמר אחד:
Article
Subject Terms:
*SPORTS injuries
*EXTREME sports
*CHILDREN -- Wounds & injuries
*ROLLER skating
*MOTORCYCLES
*SKATEBOARDING
*MOTOCROSS
NAICS/Industry Codes:
336991 Motorcycle, Bicycle, and Parts Manufacturing
Abstract:
This article focuses on the injuries that kids may get from skateboarding and other extreme sports, which sometimes result in their death. Stephanie Page went one way; her $200 skateboard went another. The face-first spill at an indoor skate park left Stephanie, 13, with a nearly 2-in. gash on her stomach, which she bandaged herself with tape and toilet paper. For millions of teens and preteens infatuated with extreme sports--that is, inseparable from their skateboards, snowboards, BMX bicycles and motocross motorcycles--risking and enduring bone-crunching injuries is shrugged off as part of the experience. In 2002 there were 428,150 medically treated injuries among children 18 or younger competing in skateboarding, in-line skating, mountain biking and snowboarding--all sports that went from the fringe to the mainstream in the last decade or so. American Sports Data Inc., which tracks injuries based on the number of times kids play a sport, ranks snowboarding 3rd out of 25 sports in risk potential, behind boxing and football. Like Stephanie, 13-year-old motocross prodigy Austin Ekberg always wore safety equipment and" didn't ride stupid," says his father, Leonard, 43, who often talked to his son about the dangers of the sport (riders on dirt bikes
over steep mounds while racing around a track).
מאמר שני:
THE ISSUES.
Source:
CQ Researcher; 4/3/2009, Vol. 19 Issue 13, p299-306, 8p
Document Type:
Article
Subject Terms:
*SPORTS
*EXTREME sports
*MIXED martial arts
*BOXING
*SNOWBOARDING
SAFETY measures
Geographic Terms:
UNITED States
Abstract:
The article explores the most controversial issues on safety concerning extreme and traditional sports in the U.S. It cites that both amateur and professional mixed martial arts (MMA) are permitted in at least 32 states and in the District of Columbia. It presents a graph showing higher injury rates of traditional sports such as boxing which ranks first compared with extreme sports such as snowboarding which ranks third.
ואחרון בנתיים:
The Way We Live Now: 11-21-99: Salient Facts: Extreme Injuries; Ouch, Dude.
Authors:
Andy Newman
Source:
New York Times Magazine; 11/21/1999, p38, 0p
Document Type:
Article
Abstract:
WHAT'S BLACK AND BLUE (OR TEAL AND MANGO) AND GOES BUMP-BUMP-BUMP-SNAP? If it's hurtling down a snowy mountain, it's increasingly likely to be an ''extreme sports'' injury in the making. As snowboarding, snow biking and even skiing while tethered to a snowmobile have caught on, they each have produced their own idiosyncratic injuries. Snow bikers, for example, who can get up to 60 miles per hour, have been known to suffer dislocated hips. ''That's the kind of injury you usually see in high-speed motor-vehicle accidents,'' says Dr. David J. Chao, the chief medical officer for the annual adrenaline orgy known as ESPN's Winter X Games. Twice he has had to maneuver someone's hip back into place -- right there on the slopes, without anesthesia. ''If you're not sure your hip is dislocated,'' he points out helpfully, ''it's not.'' SO EXTREME SPORTS HAVE SPAWNED EXTREME MEDICINE? Yes, and every new specialty requires new training. ''What you really have to gear up to be able to handle in volume and with a certain degree of finesse and speed is fractures,'' says Dr. Rob Hunter of the Orthopedic Associates of Aspen and Glenwood. ''You've got to be ready in your own mind with the various combinations of bone fractures that you're likely to see.'' For snowboarding, that means broken wrists and foot bones (just below the ankle). For skiboarding, that means fractured tibias. DOES IT OFTEN GET WORSE THAN THAT?
Actually, the fatality rate in traditional alpine skiing is higher than in the newer sports -- about 1 in 1.4 million compared with 1 in 2.1 million for snowboarders. ''Snowboarders don't collide with things,'' says Jasper Shealy, the Rochester Institute of Technology professor who recently presented these figures. A tumbling skier can sail off into a tree, but snowboards, which are mostly nonreleasable, tend to bite into the snow -- ''like a sea anchor,'' he says -- and bring their users to an abrupt halt. WHAT CAUSES THE MOST EXTREME INJURIES OF ALL?
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