Boarding Injuries: The Long and the Short of It

Table 5

Frequency of fractures and traumatic brain injury according to age for longboarders and also skateboarders.

Specific injuries	Longboard			Skateboard		Chi-Square
Age group	(𝑛=474)			(𝑛=350)		𝑃 value
	Number	%		Number	%
Extremity fractures
<15	10	47.6	0.7304	60	42.2	0.1055
15–24	74	39.0		37	31.9
25+	107	40.7		28	30.4
Upper extremity
<15	7	33.3	0.4469	57	40.1	0.0004
15–24	41	21.6		25	21.6
25+	64	24.3		18	19.6
Radius/ulna/radial head
<15	6	28.6	0.0128	41	28.9	0.0003
15–24	15	7.9		12	10.3
25+	32	12.2		13	14.1
Lower
<15	2	9.5	0.7759	2	1.4	0.0080
15–24	16	8.4		11	9.5
25+	18	6.8		9	9.8
Tibia/fibula/ankle
<15	1	4.8	0.9812	2	1.4	0.0470
15–24	8	4.2		9	7.8
25+	12	4.6		5	5.4
Traumatic brain injury (severe)
<15	0	0.0	0.1819	0	0.0
15–24	1	0.5		0	0.0
25+	7	2.7		0	0.0
Traumatic brain injury (moderate)
<15	1	4.8	0.9057	0	0.0
15–24	13	6.8		0	0.0
25+	16	6.1		0	0.0
Traumatic brain injury (mild)
<15	3	14.3	0.0263	19	13.4	0.8640
15–24	56	29.5		13	11.2
25+	51	19.4		11	12.0

Note: percents were conditioned on age; that is, for each age, what percent experienced the specific injury.