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Skating, Speed Skating, Figure Skating
2021Skating includes several types of ice and roller skating. Injuries from skating are typically traumatic injuries or overuse injuries. Novice and less experienced skaters fall more often and sustain concussions and fractures of the wrist and ankle. Experienced skaters fall when they attempt risky techniques, but tend to get more overuse tendinitis ...
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 1999
Figure skaters who train regularly sustain primarily lower extremity injuries, especially overuse injuries. Quadriceps and hamstring stretching may help prevent or decrease anterior knee pain. Foot and ankle problems may be related to the rigidity of the leather skating boot.
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Figure skaters who train regularly sustain primarily lower extremity injuries, especially overuse injuries. Quadriceps and hamstring stretching may help prevent or decrease anterior knee pain. Foot and ankle problems may be related to the rigidity of the leather skating boot.
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Influence of figure skating skates on vertical jumping performance
Journal of Biomechanics, 2006The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of wearing figure skating skates on vertical jump performance and interjoint co-ordinations described in terms of sequencing and timing of joint rotations. Ten national to international figure skaters were filmed while performing a squat jump (SJ) on a force platform.
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Biomechanics in figure skating
2018This chapter offers a comprehensive discussion of all things related to biomechanics, and shows how biomechanics influences figure skating. Specifically, it aims to provide a general foundation of basic biomechanical concepts, and demonstrates how these concepts are applied to figure skating.
Lee Cabell, Erica Bateman
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Figure Skating Simulation from Video
Computer Graphics Forum, 2019AbstractFigure skating is one of the most popular ice sports at the Winter Olympic Games. The skaters perform several skating skills to express the beauty of the art on ice. Skating involves moving on ice while wearing skate shoes with thin blades; thus, it requires much practice to skate without losing balance.
Ri Yu, Hwangpil Park, Jehee Lee
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Conditioning program for competitive figure skating
The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 1979To test the feasibility that traditional interval training methods could be adapted to the needs of competitive figure skaters, an interval skating program was conducted during a 3-month period for a group of skaters at diverse levels of proficiency.
W C, McMaster, S, Liddle, J, Walsh
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2017
Today, skating on artificial ice in indoor rinks is a year-round recreational activity enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities as well as a sport both amateur and professional that enjoys unprecedented popularity. But throughout most of its history, ice skating has been an activity limited to short seasons and possible only in countries where lakes,
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Today, skating on artificial ice in indoor rinks is a year-round recreational activity enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities as well as a sport both amateur and professional that enjoys unprecedented popularity. But throughout most of its history, ice skating has been an activity limited to short seasons and possible only in countries where lakes,
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Figure Skating: In Search of the Winning Edge
The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1979Figure skating's basic conservatism in training programs is changing to meet the challenge of Eastern European Olympic dominance with new off-ice conditioning and weight-lifting regimens.
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Historical dictionary of figure skating
Choice Reviews Online, 2011Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 1908. No other sport creates such a perfect balance between athleticism and artistry, and the athletes—many of them household names like Oksana Baiul, Brian ...
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