Alpine – FIS Injury Surveillance & Prevention Program Survey
Published Fri 19 Jun 2020
Injuries have become a critical problem for alpine ski racing. The FIS Council has therefore newly established a long-term project working group on "alpine injury prevention", organised by the FIS Injury Surveillance & Prevention Programme (ISPP). The working group consists of alpine experts from different nations and areas of expertise. The working group and ISPP will report on its work directly to the FIS professionals and relevant FIS committees.
As a first step, the working group would like to give the sports practitioners a voice and prepared a 10-minute Online Survey with the purpose to hear and understand the perspectives of alpine stakeholders on key risk factors and potential countermeasures. Questionnaire responses will be summarised and used to help guide further directions of the FIS athlete health protection efforts.
Snow Australia asks Alpine FIS athletes, coaches and medical staff (FIS, EC, WC competitions) to complete the survey by 31st of July 2020. Early replies will be appreciated. The survey answers will be available to members of the working group and ISPP only in anonymised format. Overall reports and summarised suggestions will be presented to FIS professionals, relevant FIS committees, National Ski Associations, Ski Racing Suppliers (SRS), athletes' representatives and the coaches working groups, and will be publicly available to all interested alpine stakeholders.
More Survey Information (PDF)