Wakeboarding Injuries

wybo · Newbie Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 8

To all who have been injured while wakeboarding,

If you have an injury that you sustained while wakeboarding, please see the following link.

http://webpages.eng.wayne.edu/wake

This site was designed to provide a voluntary online survey for those who have been injured while participating in the sport of wakeboarding. With the help of wakeboarding athletes at all skill levels, we intend to determine the most commonly occurring injuries involved in the sport and gain a greater understanding as to how and why these injuries may be occurring. With this, we hope to determine what preventative measures may be taken in the design of current wakeboarding equipment and athlete training programs to ultimately increase the overall safety of the sport and prolong the wakeboarding careers of participating athletes.

All information collected about you during the course of this study will be kept confidential to the extent permitted by law.

If you have any questions regarding this study, please see the website with link provided above, or send an email to wybo@wayne.edu

Without your help, we stand no chance to adequately understand the injury mechanisms that are involved in our sport. Thank you for your help in making our sport a better one.

Ledmech · Criminal Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 69 City: Gainesville

I haven't been hurt that bad yet but I read in another forum to just keep a tube of Vagisil handy Surprised

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

I filled one out for the rope getting caught around my arm 2 years ago.

Good luck with the research

Ledmech · Criminal Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 69 City: Gainesville

ouch, does that happen alot?

needtoride · Posted: May 06, 2005 9:13 am Post subject:

This is good timing maybe we can figure this stuff out before more of us get injured like parks.

Efox · Outlaw Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 238 City: Lawrenceburg

Parks got injured on a 50...I think that hardly qualifies as a wake related injury.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

absolutofft · Outlaw Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 162 City: Langley

You should put chiropractor under your list of treatments.

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wybo · Newbie Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 8

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

My whole arm didn't get caught but my thumb did once on an attempted ts bs 3.
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WakeChikNikki · Soul Rider Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 264 City: Sacramento

You should put laceration under severity of injury because it definately was not an abrasion, and i dont know what to put for how the injury was treated, i got stitches. So unfortunately i really fill that thing out with out those options. Sorry!

wybo · Newbie Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 8

Updates have been made, thanks for your comments

needtoride · Posted: May 23, 2005 5:08 am Post subject:

Yeah... after reading the news release I found out he got injured on a bike. I am glad to hear that this thing is taking off hopefully you get a lot of information.

wybo · Newbie Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 8

Thanks for everyone who has taken the time to complete this survey. We have had a great response so far and will continue to collect these reports over the summer. If you know of anyone else who may have sustained an injury while riding, please spread the word. The more cases we collect...the more accurate of an idea we will have as to the top occurring injuries in our sport. We can then shift our focus to prevention to hopefully reduce some of these injuries common to our sport. Thanks for your help!