TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Cross-country skiing injuries in the Czech Republic during the 2003-2010 period JO - Skiing trauma and safety A1 - Rokyta, Jan A1 - Chlad, Rudolf A1 - Johnson, Regina Jones A1 - Shealy, Jasper E. A1 - Greenwald, Richard M. A1 - Scher, Irving S. SP - 228 EP - 232 VL - 19 IS - N2 - The Czech mountains are suitable for performing winter sports, mostly cross-country and alpine skiing. Unlike higher mountain ranges, most cross-country ski trails run on the crest of the mountain ridges. It is possible to record steep and long downhill runs on maintained and sometimes icy trails. We monitored injuries treated by the Mountain Rescue Service (MRS) in seven mountain ranges comprising the 600 km natural border of the Czech Republic. There are 10 × 106 participants per season. The injury rate for cross-country skiers was 0.1 per 1000 participants per day.

KEYWORDS: cross-country skiing, exhaustion, groomed piste, mountain rescue association

Language: en

LA - en SN - 1050-7582 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1520/STP104486 ID - ref1 ER -