CDC Study a little misleading.

The Center for Disease Control sent out an Outdoor Injury list this summer that gathered a lot of headlines across the nation. Snowboarding was listed as the top cause for outdoor injuries. See CDC: Snowboarding Tops Outdoor Injury List. The study can be found at New CDC Study First To Present National Outdoor Recreational Injury Estimates. The information on the list is correct; however the list is not a correct representation of the facts.

Several news sources looked at the data and found major flaws in the data. See Snowboarding a leading cause of emergency room visits nationwide.

First the data did not include any cycling or biking activities. Nor is swimming included in the study. Biking alone would represent 75% of the injuries if included in the list and swimming would be much higher than snowboarding.

Skiing is not even in the list, yet there are far more ski injuries every year than dozens of other items listed.

The CDC still states that the greatest chance of dying comes from transportation. Getting to the slopes or outdoors is still more dangerous.