Abstract
Background. Snowboarding is a quite popular winter sport, though associated with the risk of injury.
 Aim: to determine the relationship between sport injuries and static and dynamic balance in snowboard instructors.
 Methods. The study included snowboard instructors from Ontario, Canada. Questionnaires were given before and after the winter season to obtain injury history. Static balance was evaluated with a Wii Balance Board. Dynamic balance was evaluated using the Y balance test. The results were compared between different genders, age and days on-snow per season.
 Results. Male snowboard instructors had, on average, higher static balance scores than the females. Both male and female scores for testing with eyes closed were significantly lower than with eyes open. The female snowboard instructors had, on average, higher dynamic balance scores than the males. However, for eyes closed testing, female snowboarders’ scores were noticeably better than the males’ scores. Nine of out twenty snowboard instructors had sustained one or more injuries in the past snowboarding season. One female and one male sustained two injuries each, and in total there were ten injuries amongst twenty snowboarders.
 Conclusions. There was no significant difference between prevalence of injury and balance amongst different genders.
 Keyword: snowboarding, sports injuries, static balance, dynamic balance.
Highlights
Snowboarding is a young sport, which has evolved rapidly during the last 30 to 40 years, with the first modern-style boards produced in the early 1970s and first showcased in the Winter Olympics at Nagano in 1998 (Vernillo, Pisoni, & Thiébat, 2018).Snowboarding is associated with a relatively high rate of injuries, with sprains and fractures being the most common followed by contusions, lacerations, dislocations and concussion
Static balance was evaluated with a Wii Balance Board
There was no significant difference between prevalence of injury and balance amongst different genders
Summary
Snowboarding is associated with a relatively high rate of injuries, with sprains and fractures being the most common followed by contusions, lacerations, dislocations and concussion. Research shows that core training is a key component for stabilization which requires strong abdominals, spine, back extensors and quadratus lumborum musculature. This is shown to be essential for optimal sports performance and injury prevention (Hébert-Losier & Holmberg, 2013). Balance and the prevalence of snowboard injuries has yet to be researched. Snowboarding is a quite popular winter sport, though associated with the risk of injury. To determine the relationship between sport injuries and static and dynamic balance in snowboard instructors
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