ASTM Int'l Publishes Volume on Skiing Trauma, Safety - ASTM STP 1474
February 8, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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ASTM International released ASTM STP 1474 - Skiing Trauma and Safety: Sixteenth Volume.
ASTM STP 1474 contains 10 peer-reviewed papers that provide the latest information on winter sports safety.
Topics covered in the publication include:
- Injuries in Norwegian ski resorts 2002-2004 - concludes that alpine skiers were more prone to knee injuries compared to all other types of winter sports; skiboarders were the most prone to lower leg fractures and injured snowboarders were most prone to suffer wrist injuries.
- Observational study on fall trends in snowboarding - evaluates fall trends in terrain parks and half-pipes.
- On piste fatalities in recreational snow sports - examines traumatic fatalities occurring to recreational skiers and snowboarders in the U.S. between 1992 and 2005.
- Arthroscopic treatment of the first anterior shoulder dislocation in young skiers
- Evaluation of the protective role of helmets in snowboarding - discusses snowboarding injuries with and without the use of helmets in a backward fall simulation at realistic speeds.
- Functional and release characteristics of alpine ski equipment - examines data gathered between December 1997 and April 2004 and evaluates differences between the release moments of equipment associated with lower extremity injuries and uninjured controls using a commercially available testing device.
Robert J. Johnson, University of Vermont; Jasper E. Shealy, Rochester Institute of Technology and Tsuneo Yamagishi, Jikei University served as the editors for this volume.
Source: ASTM International.