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Introduction: A wakeboard is an aquatic sports device in the shape of a board
to which the wakeboarder is attached with a binding to slide on the surface of
the water. The user stands on the board sideways towards the driving direction.
At water ski parks the sport cable-wakeboard has become more and more
popular over the whole world. The frequency, severity and mechanisms of injury
at cable-wakeboarding have not been described yet. There are merely case
reports to single injuries. Collecting data of mechanisms and frequency of
injuries is the aim of the study. The assumption is that injuries at cablewakeboarding
are not significantly higher than injuries at other sports.
Methodics: The participants of the study were acquired at wakeboard parks,
via email distribution lists, as well as by using internet portals. Regarding our main issue 122 subjects (99m, 23f) prospectively and steadily filled out a
standardized online-questionnaire each month in the course of the season of
2008, from May until November.
Results: The participants taking part in the study actively performed the sport
wakeboard totally adding up to 8.647 hours. For the purpose of wakeboarding
the athletes performed at their water park for 2,5 hours on an average per day
and 8,4 days per month. 277 injuries were documented, from which 108 (39%)
had to be treated medically. The rate of injuries totaled up to 32 injuries per
1.000 h. The rate of injuries that had to undergo treatment by a physician
amounted to 12 injuries per 1.000 h.
For both medically and non-medically treated injuries knee, shoulder and head
injuries dominated with respectively 20%. Distorsions and contusions made up
71% of all injuries.
Discussion: There is no greater risk of harming oneself by cable-wakeboarding
in comparison to other trend and mass sports even though the frequency of
injury for mild, non-medically treated injuries is higher.
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Created: 2011Issued: 2011-06-28Updated: 2011-08-08
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Medizin
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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ger
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Wakeboard, Trendsportwakeboardwater sportsinjury mechanismtrendy sportsVerletzungsmechanismen, Verletzungshäufigkeitenfrequency
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Wassersport
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610
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Hrabal, Stefan Anton: Verletzungshäufigkeiten beim Cable-Wakeboard:eine prospektive Studie. : Philipps-Universität Marburg 2011-06-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/z2011.0423.
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