Wakeboard Injuries
hcuene
group who have gotten injured.
Injuries are in the following areas: knees, ankles, and shoulders.
Are these injuries common among wakeboarders? Any advice on "Preventive
Measures"?
Trevor M
I've found new heights in my jumping and double ups and it's been my back
which has been getting sore. Not from crashing, just from the impact from
landing bigger air. If you don't absorb the landing completely with your
legs, your back starts to pick up the slack. And in my case, my back is not
as strong as it used to be.
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"hcuene" <hcu...@broadwaychev.com> wrote:
> Being new to Wakeboarding, I am surprised at the number of people in my
> group who have gotten injured.
>
> Injuries are in the following areas: knees, ankles, and shoulders.
>
> Are these injuries common among wakeboarders? Any advice on "Preventive
> Measures"?
>
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Tom Ruta
>Being new to Wakeboarding, I am surprised at the number of people in my
>group who have gotten injured.
>
>Injuries are in the following areas: knees, ankles, and shoulders.
>
>Are these injuries common among wakeboarders? Any advice on "Preventive
>Measures"?
>
There's nothing in the literature as far as I could see on
wakeboarding injuries. But a couple of dozen studies on
snowboarding show a pattern of injury to knees, ankles and
the upper quadrant. Kinda makes sense.
Tom
Greg Wait
>
> Being new to Wakeboarding, I am surprised at the number of people in my
> group who have gotten injured.
>
> Injuries are in the following areas: knees, ankles, and shoulders.
>
> Are these injuries common among wakeboarders? Any advice on "Preventive
> Measures"?
While I don't recommend it, I've gotten used to skiing and boarding with
some minor, chronic injuries. The one of greatest concern to me is acute
tendonitis in my left achilles tendon, going back to last Christmas
(hard landing coming down a chimney, I guess). More recently I had some
pretty serious pain along the outer edge of my left shin, which might
have been a minor stress fracture, but is much improved now. I've also
"turned" my left ankle repeatedly while camping--probably due to being
weakened by the tendonitis--to the point where it is now mildly
sprained.
Anyway, despite all of that, I really do try to avoid injury in the best
ways I know. My advice to most new wakeboarders out there is this:
DON'T GO BIG UNTIL YOU'RE READY TO GO BIG!
Most of the torn ACLs, etc. being seen in this sport are traceable to
people expecting WAY too much from their bodies. I love to go big, but
there's "big" and there's "BIG." Many of the pros are trained and
conditioned enough to handle the repetitive stress of big air landings,
but most of the recreational boarders out there are not. When you land
it clean it may be fine, but it's the times that I come down too
stiff-legged, too far forward, too far back... that I can easily end up
injured.
As a rule I want to get just enough air to complete the trick.
I'd rather get 6' high wake jumps and enjoy the rest of the year, than
jump 10' and risk spending the summer with my knee in a brace.
Greg Wait
http://www.behindtheboat.com
Michael Jackson
Tom Ruta wrote:
> "hcuene" <hcu...@broadwaychev.com> wrote:
>
> >Being new to Wakeboarding, I am surprised at the number of people in my
> >group who have gotten injured.
> >
> >Injuries are in the following areas: knees, ankles, and shoulders.
> >
> >Are these injuries common among wakeboarders? Any advice on "Preventive
> >Measures"?
> >
>
> There's nothing in the literature as far as I could see on
> wakeboarding injuries. But a couple of dozen studies on
> snowboarding show a pattern of injury to knees, ankles and
> the upper quadrant. Kinda makes sense.
>
> Tom
I frequently see knee injuries, both to myself, and to friends, I always wear
a neoprene knee brace, and it keeps me from pulling out my knee so often, as
far as ankle injuries, get good bindings. Pete