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- Title
Year 2008 whitewater injury survey.
- Authors
Diafas, Vasilios; Chrysikopoulos, Konstantinos; Diamanti, Vasiliki; Koustouraki, Paraskevi; Prionas, Giorgos; Baltopoulos, Panagiotis
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to gather retrospective data on paddling style, equipment, and acute and chronic/overuse injuries in hard shell whitewater canoe and kayak paddlers, to compare injury rates and patterns in different groups of paddlers, and to evaluate the incidence in paddlers of self-reported giardia infection. During summer and fall of 2008, a survey was distributed at riverside, through paddle club bulletins, and was posted on the Internet. Three hundred nineteen useable surveys were returned reporting 388 acute and 285 chronic injuries. Shoulder, wrist/hand, and elbow/forearm were the most common sites of injury. Sprain/strain was the most common (26%) known acute injury, followed by laceration and contusion (each 17%). Tendinitis was the most common (44%) known chronic injury diagnosis, followed by sprain/strain (27%). Fortyseven percent of acute and 36% of chronically injured paddlers sought medical attention. Giardia infection was reported in 14%. It is concluded that shoulder and wrist/hand areas were the most common injured sites in this survey. Sprains, tendinitis, lacerations, and contusions were the most common known injury diagnoses. Injuries due to portage were common. Giardia infection may be common in whitewater paddlers.
- Subjects
KAYAKERS; WHITEWATER kayaking; GIARDIASIS; CANOEING accidents; TENDINITIS; SPRAINS; OVERUSE injuries
- Publication
Biology of Exercise, 2010, Vol 6, Issue 2, p49
- ISSN
1791-325X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4127/jbe.2010.0040