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US Freeskiing Team
In the early days of freestyle skiing the sport was named for the "free" and creative element introduced by athletes who resisted traditional alpine and nordic skiing. Competitions included an all-in-one-run event where skiers were judged on a run that included ballet, moguls and a spontaneous aerial maneuver. Today the evolution of freestyle skiing is made up of six different disciplines; aerials, halfpipe, moguls, dual moguls, skicross and slopestyle. Each discipline is judged and scored to their own points list. Freestyle skiing was added to the Olympic program in 1992 for moguls, aerials in 1994, and skicross in 2010. Skiing halfpipe and slopestyle will debut in 2014 Olympic Games.
Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society
The Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society (PFATS) is a professional association whose members are the athletic trainers of the National Football League.
FIS
The International Ski Federation - Fédération Internationale de Ski, Internationaler Ski Verband - is abbreviated in all languages as FIS. The organisation was founded on 2nd February 1924 during the first Olympic Games in Chamonix, France with 14 member nations. Today 110 National Ski Associations (one currently suspended) comprise the membership of the FIS.
Justin Sportsmedicine Team
The Justin Sportsmedicine Team has selected DJO Global, Inc. as an official medical supplier.
From its modest beginnings from the back of a pickup truck at 10 Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association (PRCA) sanctioned rodeos and just 775 contestants treated in 1981, the Justin Sportsmedicine Team currently provides service to over 125 PRCA rodeos annually, while treating some 6,000 rodeo related injuries and illnesses.
Bull riding has been the event in which most athletes are injured, followed by bareback riding and saddle bronc riding.
The knee is the most often injured anatomical site in calf roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, and among bullfighters/clowns. The majority of these injuries involve running, planting the foot, or landing on the ground. Bull riders are more likely to sustain injuries to their head or face, commonly from colliding with the head or horns of the bull. Bareback bronc riders injure their shoulders, hands and elbows, in that order, because of the tremendous stresses on the riding arm.
US Snowboard Team
The U.S. Snowboard Team has selected DJO Global, Inc. as their official medical supplier and exclusive knee brace provider. According to the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine, snowboarders have a higher potential for foot, ankle, and upper extremity injuries.
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