Injuries on Snow...
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Head Injuries on the Slopes
The chances of suffering a serious head injury out on the slopes are a lot less common than the possibility of injuring another part of your body. Safety awareness,...
Preventing Snow Sports Injuries
Many people tend to equate snow sports with sustaining injuries which can ruin a holiday, especially those who are beginners or novices. However, whilst most people...
Specific Risk Groups: Beginners
Beginners to skiing and other snow sports are another group who are more at risk from sustaining injuries whilst out on the slopes. Some of the reasons for this are...
Specific Risk Groups: Children
The first thing that should be said when looking at the number of incidents of injuries sustained by children on the slopes is that the figures can be misleading....
Spinal Injuries on the Slopes
Severe spinal injuries, like head injuries, are fortunately quite rare on the slopes but if someone takes a bad tumble or has a collision from which they don’t get...
Wrist Injuries on the Slopes
Wrist injuries tend to occur more often in snowboarders than in alpine skiers and the amount of fractures in general which snowboarders suffer, also tends to be much...
