ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2020
Wide Skis As a Potential Knee Injury Risk Factor in Alpine Skiing.
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- Sport-Specific Injury Mechanisms and Situational Patterns of ACL Injuries: A Comprehensive Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Influence of Carving Ski Base Preparation on Patient-Reported Outcomes in Recreational Skiers with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Pilot Study.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Addressing the unresolved challenge of quantifying skiing exposure-A proof of concept using smartphone sensors.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
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Abstract
Alpine skis with wider waist widths have recently become more popular. With such skis, the contact point of the ground reaction force during ski turns is displaced more medially from beneath the sole of the outer ski, which may present an increased risk of injury. The aim of this study was to investigate knee joint kinetics, kinematics, and lower limb muscle activation as a function of changes of the ski waist width in a laboratory setting. A custom skiing simulator was constructed to enable simulation of different ski waist widths in a quasi-static ski turn position. An optical system was used for capturing knee joint kinematics of the outer leg, whereas a force plate was used to determine the ground reaction force vector. The combination of both systems enabled values for external torques acting on the knee joint to be calculated, whereas electromyographic measurements enabled an analysis of knee flexor muscle activation. With respect to the outer ski, the knee joint external torques were independent of ski waist width, whereas knee joint external rotation and biceps femoris activation increased significantly with the increase of the ski waist width. Skier muscle and kinematics adaptation most probably took place to diminish the external knee joint torque changes when the waist width of the ski was increased. The laboratory results suggest that using skis with large waist widths on hard, frozen surfaces may change the load of knee joint surfaces. However, future research is needed to clarify if this may result in the increased risk of knee injury.
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