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Pediatrics, 1977
Skateboard-related trauma is causing significant morbidity and mortality that are rapidly increasing in frequency. The spectrum of injuries is predominantly fractures, contusions and abrasions, strains and sprains, and lacerations of the lower arm, lower leg, head, and face. Significant renal injuries are also a common cause of hospitalization.
R A, Jacobs, E L, Keller
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Skateboard-related trauma is causing significant morbidity and mortality that are rapidly increasing in frequency. The spectrum of injuries is predominantly fractures, contusions and abrasions, strains and sprains, and lacerations of the lower arm, lower leg, head, and face. Significant renal injuries are also a common cause of hospitalization.
R A, Jacobs, E L, Keller
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Medical Journal of Australia, 1990
The recent increase in skateboard injuries is causing concern. Over a 30-month period there were 80 admissions (69 children) to Westmead Hospital because of skateboard injuries. Among children most injuries were minor, involving fractures to the upper limbs (47) or minor head injuries (8).
D T, Cass, F, Ross
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The recent increase in skateboard injuries is causing concern. Over a 30-month period there were 80 admissions (69 children) to Westmead Hospital because of skateboard injuries. Among children most injuries were minor, involving fractures to the upper limbs (47) or minor head injuries (8).
D T, Cass, F, Ross
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Sports Medicine, 1996
Skateboarding has experienced intermittent periods of popularity since the 1960s. Along with this popularity, there have been concomitant increases in numerous types of injuries. Most documented cases occur in boys aged from 10 to 14 years, with injuries ranging from minor cuts and abrasions to multiple fractures and, in some cases, even death ...
J L, Fountain, M C, Meyers
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Skateboarding has experienced intermittent periods of popularity since the 1960s. Along with this popularity, there have been concomitant increases in numerous types of injuries. Most documented cases occur in boys aged from 10 to 14 years, with injuries ranging from minor cuts and abrasions to multiple fractures and, in some cases, even death ...
J L, Fountain, M C, Meyers
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Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding
Social Forces, 2018 Inside the complex and misunderstood world of professional street skateboarding. On a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles, a crew of skaters and videographers watch as one of them attempts to land a 'heel flip' over a fire hydrant on a sidewalk in front of the ...
Snyder, Gregory J.,
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Prevention of Skateboard Injuries
Scottish Medical Journal, 1980Skateboarding has become extremely popular in the United Kingdom, and it is estimated that over two million skateboards have been sold. Previous surveys have shown the dangers of the sport, fractures of the limbs being a particularly common form of injury.
W J, Morgan, D J, Galloway, A R, Patel
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Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017
Skateboarding is an extreme sport that is consists of various trick performances. You can control your board with various foot movements, and slip over the obstacle with the board. In this research, we provided a Motion Log Skateboard system that visualizes the pressure distribution of the foot on the board.
HyungKun Park, Hyeon-Beom Yi, Woohun Lee
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Skateboarding is an extreme sport that is consists of various trick performances. You can control your board with various foot movements, and slip over the obstacle with the board. In this research, we provided a Motion Log Skateboard system that visualizes the pressure distribution of the foot on the board.
HyungKun Park, Hyeon-Beom Yi, Woohun Lee
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Longboard and skateboard injuries
Injury, 2014The causes and events related to skateboarding injuries have been widely documented. However, little is known about longboard-related injuries. With five deaths linked to longboarding in the United States and Canada in 2012, some cities are already considering banning the practice.
Glenn, Keays, Alex, Dumas
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One wheel motorized skateboard: The sustainable skateboarding
2015 International Conference on Technologies for Sustainable Development (ICTSD), 2015This paper presents a self — balancing skateboard that runs on battery power. The equipment senses human body movements and accordingly accelerates or decelerates, depending on the orientation of the human body. The one wheel motorized skateboard would follow the motion, that of a straight tine path.
Hansel H. Remedios +1 more
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2013
From skateboarding's distant origins in the 1940s to the heyday of the Z-Boys to Tony Hawk's lifelong and lucrative career as a professional skateboarding icon, this book showcases what skateboarding was in the past and what it's now evolved into. In the last half century, skateboarding has evolved from a simple, idyllic child's pastime that ...
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From skateboarding's distant origins in the 1940s to the heyday of the Z-Boys to Tony Hawk's lifelong and lucrative career as a professional skateboarding icon, this book showcases what skateboarding was in the past and what it's now evolved into. In the last half century, skateboarding has evolved from a simple, idyllic child's pastime that ...
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Skateboard and Scooter Injuries
Pediatrics, 2002Skateboard-related injuries account for an estimated 50 000 emergency department visits and 1500 hospitalizations among children and adolescents in the United States each year. Nonpowered scooter-related injuries accounted for an estimated 9400 emergency department visits between January and August 2000, and 90% of these patients were children younger ...
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