Word: skis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard ski team travels to Hanover. N. H. today for the animal Dartmouth Winter Garnival...
Skimpy Second Aid. Many novices get hurt even before they hit the slopes. Though state safety codes have sharply reduced ski-lift mishaps, skiers manage to slip in icy parking lots, strain untrained muscles or fall off ski-lodge bar stools. One young woman recently hurt herself in the ski shop at Vail, Colo. Bending over to adjust the bindings on her rented skis, she ruptured her Achilles tendon and wound up in a cast for two months. Another girl suffered from annoying numbness in her legs whenever she skied. Dr. Arthur Ellison, a Williamstown, Mass., skier-orthopedist who runs...
...mountain itself, the most common injuries used to be simple fractures of the lateral malleolus, or anklebone, and low-level spiral fractures of the tibia and fibula. But now that higher, more rigid ski boots are in style, doctors are encountering the more serious "boot-top fracture," in which the tibia and fibula are snapped well above the ankle. A simple ankle fracture takes six to eight weeks to knit properly; a simple boot-top break can require as long as 16 weeks...
...Even so, skiing may be safer (fatalities are very rare) than staying home, where more than 4,000,000 Americans were disabled and 27,000 died in accidents last year. Moreover, for those who are hurt on the hill, emergency treatment is usually prompt and professional. The National Ski Patrol has 20,000 members trained in mountain rescue techniques, and all U.S. ski areas are policed by paid patrolmen or dedicated volunteers. As a result, most ski casualties are spotted, given first aid and whisked off the slopes in toboggans within minutes of a serious spill...
Safety in Skill. The obvious solution is prevention. Thus release bindings, designed to free the foot in a fall, are now installed on virtually every pair of skis sold or rented in the U.S. But such bindings may be useless if they are not properly adjusted and maintained. Many novice skiers fall too slowly to open the bindings. Some critics argue that women, who suffer twice as many ski injuries as men, are often too light to activate the release mechanism...