Skiing Trauma and Safety: Ninth International Symposium

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910164321503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified], : American Society for Testing & Materials, 1993
• ISBN: 0-8031-5237-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 796.9
• Soggetti: Skis and skiing - Training
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The June 1991 symposium in Thredbo, NSW, Australia, brought together people from medicine, sports, resort management, and equipment manufacture and sales, to discuss aspects of skiing accidents. The 24 papers cover alpine skiing epidemiology, the biomechanical and physiological aspects of skiing, bindings, the safety of ski areas, and injuries in related sports such as snowboarding, ski jumping, and tobogganing. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.