Skydiving Injuries

Trevor Mills

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28265-7_16

Skydiving Injuries

Trevor Mills

Emergency Medicine

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Abstract

Sport skydiving is continually growing in popularity worldwide, with many styles and disciplines practiced. This chapter summarizes the current literature and statistics, in order to detail the mortality and incidence of injuries encountered in this extreme sport. Modern equipment, along with equipment innovation and regulation of the sport through national and international associations, has contributed to decreasing the overall skydiving morbidity and mortality: as a result, compared to other “extreme” sports, today skydiving probably has a low injury and mortality rate. However, the introduction of modern parachutes has also resulted in different; therefore, the prevention of skydiving injuries today should mainly focus on training and wing parachute piloting, for both novices and more experienced skydivers.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Extreme Sports Medicine
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	197-208
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319282657
ISBN (Print)	9783319282633
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28265-7_16
State	Published - Jan 1 2016

Keywords

Blunt trauma
Calcaneal fracture
Compression fracture
Deceleration
Emergency medicine
Free fall
Hospitalization
Muscle strains
Parachute technology
Ram-air parachutes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Medicine(all)

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Mills, T. (2016). Skydiving Injuries. In Extreme Sports Medicine (pp. 197-208). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28265-7_16

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