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Snowboarding injuries
Rocky Mountain Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Clinic, Crested Butte and Basalt, Colorado, USA
Since the inception of the idea of riding a board on the snow in the 1970s, the popularity of the winter sport of snowboarding has burgeoned. Snowboarding is the only area of the winter sports market that has continued to grow. The 1994–1995 NSAA Kottke National Business Survey indicated that 14% of the 54 million area visits in the United States were generated by snowboarders.1 It has been reported that 80% of children who participate in snow sports have ridden snowboards by their 12th birthday.2 Industry analysts project that by the early 2000s more than 40% of those on the slopes will be snowboarders.
With the rise in popularity of snowboarding there has been a change in the injury pattern of these winter sports participants as compared with skiing. There has also been the recognition of an ankle injury that is specific to and only occurs in snowboarding. Along with
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