According to the Spanish "Marca" website reported on February 6, under the influence of high speed and bad weather (especially high winds), the Winter Olympics are challenging Newton's laws.
According to the report, ski jumpers have to slide down steep and hard slopes at high speeds; speed skaters have to control thin ice knives at a speed of about 50 km/h; and figure skaters have to control thinner ice blades and complete difficult 4 weeks of jumping. In the snowboard slalom chase, each group of 4 runners has to complete difficult jumps and sharp turns at a speed of about 60 km/h.
'Even so, we can control the game because we have a strategy. Spain's Lucas Egival, the world champion in the snowboard slew track, said.
Diego García-Hermann, the medical director of the Spanish Winter Olympics delegation, warned that in addition to the "increasing" concussions, skiers' collarbones are also vulnerable to damage because the shoulders have very flexible joints, making it difficult to remain stable.
In terms of sports, at the top of the list of injury risk, is the snowboard U-shaped track skill, with 28% of the participants will be injured; followed by the snowboard slalom chase, 26% of the participants will be injured; and the freestyle ski slalom chase has 25% of the participants injured. These events account for about half of the severe fractures that athletes have suffered during the Winter Olympics.
According to the Spanish "Marca" website reported on February 6, regular skiing and snowboarding are two sports that can be carried out on the same ski slope and on the same slope. However, due to the different ways that double and veneer are connected to our feet, the types of sports injuries that occur will also be different.
In general, it can be said that snowboarders have more upper limb injuries (wrists, collarbones, shoulders), while skiers have more lower limb injuries, especially knee joint injuries. Wrist fractures account for 22 percent of snowboard injuries and only 3 percent of ski injuries. Wrist injuries are more common among beginner snowboarders.
In contrast, knee ligament injuries accounted for 39 percent of ski injuries and only 9 percent of snowboard injuries, with anterior cruciate ligament injuries accounting for 1.7 percent. Snowboarding carries a higher risk of head injury.
Snowboarding, on the other hand, also has some characteristic lower extremity injuries, such as fractures of the lateral process of the foot talus, which is often referred to as "snowboard fractures".
When skiing, the ankle is protected by the snowshoe itself (provided it is properly fixed). Snowshoes prevent the appearance of torsion that triggers fractures.
On the skiing side, despite the higher incidence of lower extremity injuries, there are also some unique upper extremity injuries, such as those known as the "skier's thumb," which is a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of the metacarpophalangeal joint of the thumb.
Source: Reference News Network
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