Adventure and Extreme Sports Injuries: Epidemiology, Treatment, Rehabilitation and Prevention

378 Pages·2013·11.796 MB·English

by  Omer Mei-Dan M.D. (auth.), Omer Mei-Dan, Michael R Carmont (eds.)

Adventure and Extreme Sports Injuries

Omer Mei-Dan (cid:129) Michael R. Carmont
Editors
Adventure and Extreme
Sports Injuries
Epidemiology, Treatment, Rehabilitation
and Prevention
Editors
Omer Mei-Dan Michael R. Carmont
School of Medicine The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Department of Orthopaedics Princess Royal Hospital
University of Colorado Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust
Aurora Telford
USA UK

CU Sports Medicine, The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Boulder, Colorado The Northern General Hospital
USA Sheffi eld Teaching Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust
Sheffi eld
UK

ISBN 978-1-4471-4362-8 ISBN 978-1-4471-4363-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4363-5
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About the Authors

Dr. Omer Mei-Dan is a sports and trauma surgeon, originally from Israel, now prac-
tices in University of Colorado, located in Denver and Boulder, near the mountains
he adores. Omer is a world renown extreme sports athlete himself who has been
involved for more than 20 years in numerous disciplines within this area and was
responsible for the establishment and production of many innovative events.
His achievements vary from mountaineering fi rst ascents to be part of the evolve-
ment of the sports of wing-suit fl ying and base jumping. In the past years Omer is
involved in extreme sports research, mainly in the areas of climbing and base jump-
ing injuries but also observing the mental characteristics and hormonal aspects of

extreme sports athletes.
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vi About the Authors
Mr. Mike Carmont is a knee and foot and ankle Orthopedic Surgeon from the
north of England. He has competed at adventure sports for the last 20 years fell rac-
ing, orienteering, mountain bike orienteering and moutain marathon racing up to
elite level and has completed the Devizes to Westminster Kayak marathon twice.
He has researched kayak and mountain bike injuries and has written many arti-
cles and scienti fi c papers on this and other sports injuries. He is an instructor on

several event side resuscitation courses.
Contents
1 The Management of the Extreme Sports Athlete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Omer Mei-Dan and Michael R. Carmont
2 Rock and Ice Climbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Volker Schöffl
3 Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Mike Langran
4 Skydiving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anton Westman
5 BASE Jumping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Omer Mei-Dan
6 Whitewater Canoeing and Rafting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Jonathan P. Folland and Kate Strachan
7 Surfing Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Andrew T. Nathanson
8 Kite Surfing and Snow Kiting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Mark Tauber and Philipp Moroder
9 Windsurfing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Daryl A. Rosenbaum and Bree Simmons
10 Sailing and Yachting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Michael R. Carmont
11 Mountain Biking Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Michael R. Carmont
12 Paragliding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Lior Laver and Omer Mei-Dan
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13 Mountain, Sky, and Endurance Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Denise Park and Michael R. Carmont
14 Personality Characteristics in Extreme Sports Athletes: Morbidity
and Mortality in Mountaineering and BASE Jumping . . . . . . . . . . 303
Erik Monasterio
15 Endocrine Aspects and Responses to Extreme Sports . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Karen Tordjman, Naama Constantini, and Anthony C. Hackney
16 Preventing Injuries in Extreme Sports Athletes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
John Nyland and Yee Han Dave Lee
17 Rehabilitation of Extreme Sports Injuries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Peter Malliaras, Dylan Morrissey, and Nick Antoniou
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Contributors
Nick Antoniou Melbourne Hand Therapy, Elgar Hill Medical Suites,
Suite 7, 28 Arnold Street, Box Hill 3128, Melbourne , VIC , Australia
Michael R. Carmont , FRCS (Tr&Orth) The Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery, Princess Royal Hospital, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust,
Telford, UK
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Northern General Hospital,
Sheffi eld Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffi eld, UK
Naama Constantini Department of Orthopedic Surgery , Sport Medicine Center,
The Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center , Jerusalem , Israel
Lee Yee Han Dave , M.D. Division of Sports Medicine,
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery , University of Louisville ,
Louisville , KY , USA
Jonathan P. Folland , Ph.D., FACSM School of Sport, Exercise and Health
Sciences , Loughborough University, Sir John Beckwith Centre for Sport ,
Loughborough, Leics , UK
Anthony C. Hackney Endocrine Section-Applied Physiology Laboratory,
Department of Exercise and Sport Science , University of North Carolina ,
Chapel Hill , NC , USA
Mike Langran Health Centre , Aviemore, Inverness-Shire , Scotland, UK
Lior Laver , M.D. Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Unit ,
“Meir” Medical Center , Kfar-Saba , Israel
Peter Malliaras Centre for Sports and Exercise, Queen Mary,
University of London, Mile End Hospital , London , UK
Omer Mei-Dan , M.D. Division of Sports Medicine,Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery , University of Colorado School of Medicine , Aurora , CO , USA
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