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Risk of Injury During Alpine and Telemark Skiing and Snowboarding

The Equipment-Specific Distance-Correlated Injury Index

Roar Rønning, MD^*,,, Tom Gerner, MD, PhD^* and Lars Engebretsen, MD, PhD

^* Department of Surgery, Lillehammer Central Hospital, Lillehammer
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Roar Rønning, MD, Department of Surgery, Lillehammer Central Hospital, N-2600 Lillehammer, Norway

Estimation of injury risk in alpine sports is difficult. We present a new method of calculating an injury index related to the distance traveled on ski or snowboard. The distance-correlated injury index equals the number of injuries per 100,000 km traveled distance. This injury index can also be correlated to the type of equipment used. The equipment-specific distance-correlated injury index is the same as the distance-correlated injury index, but it is sport-specific. We found the distance-correlated injury index for alpine skiing to be 3.9 (95% CI = 2.8 to 5.4); for snowboarding, 13.5 (95% CI = 8.3 to 22.0); and for telemark skiing, 3.0 (95% CI = 1.0 to 9.4), suggesting a three- to four-times higher incidence of injuries requiring hospital treatment among snowboarders than among alpine and telemark skiers.

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