Skating Injury Survey (Ithaca College)

[FigureSpins]

Saw this on the PSA Facebook page:

Ithaca College is conducting a Skating Injury Prevention Survey (Sk.I.P.S.) of figure skaters to better understand skating and training habits and their relationship to injuries. All figure skaters can participate in the study and complete the survey regardless of your ability level. If you are under the age of 18 you must have parent or guardian fill out the survey with you.

Have your skaters completed this survey yet? Results will be shared with U.S.Fig & PSA.

SURVEY LINK: https://ithaca.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3pEtvYmYwXok6Ta

[VAsk8r]

I took it. It took forever, and I only told them about my 2011 injuries!

[jjane45]

I was doing it on my phone and gave when they got to questions about pre season and off season, sound geared at competitive skaters only.

[Skittl1321]

I closed it out. I don't have pre/off season, and when I got to "have you ever had an injury" I didn't know what to do. I've had tons. Do I just pick one?

[hopskipjump]

I filled it out.  Pre seaon is Dec-Mar for us (get new programs) and then we are in club season from April to Sept.  Oct/Nov tend to be off season.

Our schedule never changes but the focus of lessons does change.  More time is spent on testing prep in the off season.  I think the club season is longer when you are in qualifying comps but for us it ends in Sept.

There are comps all year (we do ISI as well), but we just get choosier.

[Query]

Do you think it is a class project by a college student that will never be published?

[MimiG]

I closed it out. I don't have pre/off season, and when I got to "have you ever had an injury" I didn't know what to do. I've had tons. Do I just pick one?

After you fill in the injury info for the first one, it will ask you if you've had another, and so on, until you tell it you're done entering.

If you don't have a specific pre/off-season, it was my understanding that you can just make your season the whole year when it asks you which months cover what part of the training cycle.

[Skittl1321]

After you fill in the injury info for the first one, it will ask you if you've had another, and so on, until you tell it you're done entering.

Ah- they don't make that clear!

How far back in injury history do you go?  Because it appears they are interested in non-skating injuries too.

[MimiG]

Definitely don't make it clear... and I have no idea how far back to go. I'd do all skating injuries and any others that affected my skating in some way, but they don't make that clear, either.

[VAsk8r]

I was kind of frustrated by the off-season/on-season questions too. I do several comps every year and most are in the spring, but one's in the fall, I did one in January of last year, and then there's the holiday show. So I feel like I'm always preparing for something.

I opted for the three injuries that kept me off ice and/or required medical treatment, and it took awhile to write them out. All of them were in 2011. I'm sure they'll be looking at my lack of warmup time, low-level jumps and injuries and saying, "you'd think she'd just give up by now."