Sports Health, 2019 Context: Alpine skiing is a popular sport worldwide but has significant risk for injury. The epidemiology of skiing-related injuries has been described, which has led to the identification of risk factors for specific types of injuries. Evidence Acquisition: Pertinent literature from peer-reviewed publications was reviewed.
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Connected Skiing: Motion Quality Quantification in Alpine Skiing [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Recent developments in sensing technology have made wearable computing smaller and cheaper. While many wearable technologies aim to quantify motion, there are few which aim to qualify motion.
Cory Snyder +4 more
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Knowledge graph of alpine skiing events: A focus on meteorological conditions [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Alpine skiing, as an outdoor winter sport, is particularly vulnerable to the variation of meteorological conditions. Scattered and multi-source big data cannot be fully utilized to conduct effective decision analyses by conventional data analysis methods.
Wei Tang +5 more
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Alpine Skiing Activity Recognition Using Smartphone’s IMUs [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Many studies on alpine skiing are limited to a few gates or collected data in controlled conditions. In contrast, it is more functional to have a sensor setup and a fast algorithm that can work in any situation, collect data, and distinguish alpine ...
Behrooz Azadi +4 more
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How through understanding of alpine ski novices' attitudes towards alpine skiing make the alpine ski school more efficaceous [PDF]
SportLogia, 2014 The assumption of this study was that attitude towards alpine skiing and expectations of ski novices affect the level of achieved alpine ski knowledge.
Vjekoslav Cigrovski +2 more
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Risk management framework for competitive alpine skiing—co-developed with stakeholders [PDF]
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise MedicinePrevious research has shown that stakeholders in the competitive alpine skiing communities consider risk management to be crucial in sports injury prevention.
Vincent Gouttebarge +14 more
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Influence of Alpine Skiing on Health-Related Quality of Life and Physical Self-Concept in Physically Active Adults over 55 Years of Age [PDF]
Sports, 2022 Background: Older adults have the highest rates of a sedentary lifestyle. Alpine skiing could be considered a suitable activity to encourage continued sports practice and improve the health of this population in winter.
Javier Conde-Pipó +5 more
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T2*-Mapping of Knee Cartilage in Response to Mechanical Loading in Alpine Skiing: A Feasibility Study [PDF]
Diagnostics, 2022 Purpose: This study intends to establish a study protocol for the quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) measurement of biochemical changes in knee cartilage induced by mechanical stress during alpine skiing with the implementation of new spring ...
Uwe Schütz +6 more
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Effects of physical stress in alpine skiing on psychological, physiological, and biomechanical parameters: An individual approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 Alpine skiing is an attractive winter sport that often includes mental and physical demands. Since skiing is often done for several hours, fatigue processes occur that might lead to action errors associated with a higher risk of accidents and injuries ...
Thomas Finkenzeller +7 more
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The relative importance of ski resort- and weather-related characteristics when going alpine skiing: Data from a rating-based conjoint survey [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2021 The data are related to two research articles: “The relative importance of ski resort-and weather-related characteristics when going alpine skiing” [1] and “Optimal pricing of alpine ski passes in the case of crowdedness and reduced skiing capacity” [2].
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