Wipe Outs/injuries

One of the most deadly things about snowboarding is the wipe outs. Even if your good you could still easily wipe out because all it takes is one little bump to throw you off balance. Your board could also get stuck in the snow when you turn. The reason they can get really bad is because you're going fast and its down hill and you have something on your feet so you won't land correctly. Also, when you fall you can also keep sliding which might hurt you a little more. Usually the most common injuries on a snowboard are the breaking ankles because you can't take them out. Some other common injuries are breaking wrists, concussions, knee injuries, neck injuries, and other kinds of broken bones, and dislocations.. Knee injuries are usually caused by extremely hard collisions such as crashing into things. Concussions can easily happen because all it that really needs to happen is that you just slip backwards. For wrist injuries you can easily break them by falling on them and bending them. Neck injuries can happen if you try to do a trick and land on your neck or if you fall and bend your neck. You could also break your collar bone. You can prevent yourself form getting injured by wearing wrist guards, ankle guards, knee pads, and even wearing a helmet because you never know when your going to have a bad wipe out. Also to prevent injuries because you cant wear protection for everything is to ride safely and not go out of control. Many pro's have had some bad wipe outs one you probably know of is Shaun White at the X-Games where he came down from doing a trick and face planted on the side of the half pipe. My friend Colton Wicinski broke both his wrists while snowboarding a while ago by just falling somewhat lightly on them. Now this doesn't mean he's bad at snowboarding because all it takes is one little mistake for you to break a bone or get some other serious injury. An injury that is really bad is frostbite. Frostbite has four stages the third and fourth stages could result in amputation or they could fall off. The first stage is when the top layer of skin gets hard and numb but doesn't do any permanent damage. At the second degree blisters usually appear and blacken but they aren't that bad. Wherever you got frostbite the blisters will go away in about a month but that part may always be permanently sensitive to heat and cold. Even though frostbite can easily be protected many people still get it because they think they will be fine but remember it's easier to get over a long period of time in the very cold weather so watch out and dress warm when you go.