Information About the Knee

Number (in thousands) of emergency visits for snowboarding-related knee injuries (by age group)

Year

Age (in Years)

0-18

19-42

43-61

>61

Total

1998

2

2

*

*

4

1999

1

2

*

*

3

2000

2

2

*

*

4

2001

2

2

*

*

4

2002

2

2

*

*

4

2003

2

2

*

*

4

2004

2

*

*

*

3

2005

2

2

*

*

3

2006

2

1

*

*

3

2007

2

2

*

*

4

Source: Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), 1998-2007.

Note: *-indicates the estimates are too small to be reliable.