Kiteboarding Research: What is it about?

Kevin · Since 07 Sep 2006 5 Posts Kook

There has been some discussion on several forums regarding the Kiteboarding Survey that was recently posted.

Firstly I encourage you to undertake the Kiteboarding Survey, the results are going to help give us a little more insight into our sport and I hope maybe keep us on the water doing what we do best.

Primarily…the results may help in the design of sport specific conditioning and/or rehabilitation programs that combine balance, strength, flexibility and stability training specific to kiteboarding. I have worked on rehabilitating kiteboarders after significant shoulder, spinal and knee surgeries. Through their input and guidance, we have jointly set up rehabilitation strategies that place them under realistically similar forces and loads found when kiteboarding ensuring them a safe return to their sport.

The survey can be accessed at;

http://www.stats-consult.com/survey-signup.html

Rehabilitation needs to be sports specific; one must understand the unique circumstances faced in kiteboarding and not give a kiteboarder a rehabilitation protocol set up for a tennis player! Research affords us an in-depth look into sports and factors that lead to extended or shortened participation.

This study has categorically no association with any manufactures, distributors or marketers of kiteboarding equipment, neither does it have any association with any legal or insurance based companies.

Thanks again for your support.

Kevin Kemp-Smith (Principal Investigator)

genek · Since 21 Jul 2006 2165 Posts East Po KGB

Hi Kevin,

I took your survey, and I had one question. Why are you only interested in injuries that happened less than 12 months ago? Wouldn't it be useful to have data on all the injuries? You could even group them by year when they occurred to see how influx of newbies vs. safer gear affected injuries over the past few years.

Just curious.

Thanks.

Mike Hawk · Thu Sep 14, 06 4:23 pm **Re: Kiteboarding Research: What is it about?**

Kevin · Since 07 Sep 2006 5 Posts Kook

Thanks for the question.

The main reason why we have limited the study for injuries in the last 12 months is due to recall abilities of incidences. As time goes by recall decreases and current research has indicated that 12 months in an acceptable limit.

In saying this, we have asked how may injuries did a kiteboarder have that have stopped them from kiting at any time. This still gives us an overall view of injuries that may have occured years agon but this data is not as strong as that relating to the past 12 months.

There are certainly many variations we could have looked for in data collection and your suggestion in well accepted and could possibly be used in future surveys.

Anyway thanks for the feedback and for undertaking the survey.

Kind Regards

Kevin Kemp-Smith

skydiveblake · Since 28 Jun 2006 63 Posts San Diego

Why didn't you ask what kind of injuries were sustained? I mean, I broke my damn tooth off once, I blew my knee out once, and once I think I ripped my eyelids off - it seems to me you would at least be curious.