Study: Snowboarders without lessons more apt to get hurt
By Reuters
Lock your feet onto a snowboard, and you can expect to fall. But whether or not a fall results in a broken wrist or separated shoulder depends on a lot of factors — including just how you go down.
Based on information from nearly 2,000 upper extremity fractures and dislocations, researchers in Japan found that snowboarders lacking licensed instruction accounted for 9 out of every 10 injuries — the largest portion of which were to the wrist from a backward fall.
“Many snowboarders think that because the surface is made of snow, it will always be soft,” Gregg Davis, a snowboarding instructor at Breckenridge Ski and Ride School in Colorado, noted in an email to Reuters Health. “Most of the time the surface is quite hard and can lead to a strong impact on the extremities,” added Davis, who was not involved in the study.
The full article states that Japanese snowboarders have a 1 in 50,000 chance of serious injury per visit, while the next sentence states that American snowboarders have a 200-350 in 50,000 chance of injury per visit without stating the serverity.
Again the corrupt use of non-sensical statistics so prevalent in our common discourse.
Do reporters think the readers are as stupid as themselves or did they all flunk grade school math.
Maybe they are just the products of a pathetic and getting more so education system.
More power to the teacher unions and the idiots we call administrators with a Dr. in front of their names, like here in South Lake Tahoe, should solve poor student performance.
The path to mediocrity is greased with hydrocarbons and water.(Can you figure out who is being referenced?)
Time is running out to turn things around.