Reducing the risks for traumatic and overuse injury among competitive alpine skiers

Matej Supej¹, Veit Senner², Nicola Petrone³, Hans-Christer Holmberg^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
² Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.
³ Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
⁴ Swedish Winter Sports Research Centre, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden.
⁵ School of Sport Sciences, UiT Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

Editorial

Matej Supej et al. Br J Sports Med. 2017 Jan.

. 2017 Jan;51(1):1-2.

doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096502. Epub 2016 Oct 31.

Matej Supej¹, Veit Senner², Nicola Petrone³, Hans-Christer Holmberg^{4

5}

¹ Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
² Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.
³ Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
⁴ Swedish Winter Sports Research Centre, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden.
⁵ School of Sport Sciences, UiT Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

No abstract available

Keywords: Alpine skiing; Biomechanics; Injury prevention; Performance.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: None declared.

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