Snowboarding is an activity that appears to be gaining popularity among people who are
interested in winter sports. The dynamic evolution of the method of snowboarding comes …

For the last twenty years the popularity of snowboarding, a relatively new sport and form of
physical recreation, has increased significantly. Undoubtedly, this is related to a the great …

Chapter 29 Snowboarding Page 1 447 Introduction The first snowboards were designed in the
1960s, and snowboarding became a demonstration sport during the 1994 Olympics in …

Zygmuntowicz M, Czerwiński W. The causes of injuries in freestyle snowboarding. Med
Sport 2007, 11 (4): 102-104. Introduction: Freestyle is the most popular and common style of …

Although, in Europe, snowboarding is a young sport, it has already established itself and, in
common with Alpine skiing, is represented in the Olympics. Its biomechanical aspects …

It is a common belief that snowboarding might carry a higher risk of accident than alpine
skiing. In order to prove this suspicion but also to figure out a basic knowledge to develop …

The present review summarises the related literature of the last ten years with request to
snowboarding accidents. Sport accident statistics of snowboarding show high and …

Snowboarding is a sport showing dramatic increases in the numbers actively participating.
In Austria, 720,000 people took part in this sport during the 1995/96 winter season. In the …

Snowboarding has gained immense popularity during the past 30 years and continues to
appeal to many young participants. Injury patterns and characteristics of injuries seen …

Over the last 10 years, snowboarding has become established as a popular and legitimate
alpine sport. However, at present, there are few epidemiological studies examining the …