{"id":1979,"date":"2008-06-11T06:08:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T14:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2008-06-11T06:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T14:08:41","slug":"most-common-injuries-in-the-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/06\/11\/most-common-injuries-in-the-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Most common injuries in the outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilderness Medical Society reports that snowboarders account for fully a quarter of all outdoor-related emergency room visits. <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gtXatrhTQonqL83r-EKOTUUV4brwD917EEFO0\">Hikers come in at No. 3. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly 26 percent of the injures were from snowboarding followed by sledding (11 percent); hiking (6 percent); mountain biking, personal watercraft, water skiing or tubing (4 percent); fishing (3 percent) and swimming (2 percent).<\/p>\n<p>From his experience on ski patrols, &#8220;it makes perfect sense to me that snowboard injuries rank high,&#8221; said Dr. Paul Auerbach, of Stanford School of Medicine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Odd, why mountain biking but no road biking? <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Auerbach has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/blogs\/outdoor_health\/\">outdoor-health blog<\/a>. If you&#8217;re feeling energetic, check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/blogs\/outdoor_health\/2008\/06\/outdoor-medicine-and-environment.html\">environmental treatise<\/a> (his style is tad dry but I don&#8217;t really care much about prose tendencies when I need my compound fracture reduced). Or if you&#8217;re the practical sort: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/blogs\/outdoor_health\/2008\/05\/laceration-repair-in-wilderness.html\">Laceration repair.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WEBMD also cites the above study and lists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/fitness-exercise\/news\/20080610\/outdoor-recreation-may-lead-to-er\">several dead-obvious<\/a> ways to avoid injuries (such as, if you go fast, wear a helmet). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilderness Medical Society reports that snowboarders account for fully a quarter of all outdoor-related emergency room visits. Hikers come in at No. 3. Nearly 26 percent of the injures were from snowboarding followed by sledding (11 percent); hiking (6&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/06\/11\/most-common-injuries-in-the-outdoors\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[40],"tags":[289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}