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New
Flexmeter Snowboard Gloves and Flexmeter Wrist Guards for Snowboard and
Skateboarding
Snowboard Wrist Guards and Sport Wrist Guards
can help prevent injury!
Flexmeters are recommended by
Ski-Injury.com
See the Flexmeter Team and Videos
here!
Can Reduce Fractures 67% to 85%*
Broken Wrists are the most common snowboard
injury, especially for beginners. Last year there were
over 100,000 snowboard wrist injuries worldwide.
Beginner snowboarders
have 4 times the risk of a wrist injury.
Flexmeter - Measured
Flex to reduce snowboard wrist injuries
Flexmeter is the ONLY snowboard wrist
guard / glove designed by a DOCTOR,
AND with PROVEN research RESULTS.
Visit Dr. Binet's Mountain Clinic
here.
"The Dangerous
Realities that Exist on the Slopes" From The Coloradoan article, 1/26/08
"Do wrist guards help prevent injuries, if so what kind, and do people
actually wear them?
The best ones are those that are not rigid, extend
up the forearm and ideally sit along the back of your hand and wrist, not
under your palm.... ISSS doctors have created two wrist guards recommended -
the Flexmeter ...."
article here
Colorado Orthopedic Surgeon Warns of Wrist
Injuries From Snowboarding
01/10/2008
GOLDEN, Colo., Jan.-- If all snowboarders wore wrist guards,
Dr. Christopher Brian would be a lot less busy this time of
year... "Each year I'm surprised by the number of wrist and
forearm injuries I see from snowboarding ...
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Flexmeter - Snowboard
and Skateboard with confidence.
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for FAQ's about Flexmeter. Flexmeter
recently won a “BrandNew” award at the world’s largest snowboard trade
show, ISPO, in Munich, Germany.
A new type of flexible wrist guard gives you
true shock absorption to significantly reduce snowboard wrist fractures --
unlike normal wrist guards.
After 5-years of development by doctor
Marc Binet, MD, in cooperation with DuPont
engineering, the new Flexmeter wrist guards and gloves are a response to Dr.
Binet's direct clinical experience in the heart of the French Alps.
After diagnosing, treating and rehabilitating
thousands of snowboard wrist fractures over the past ten years, Dr. Binet
noticed two patterns:
 | Those who don't use wrist guards
typically have
fractures located 2 cm from the wrist joint - within
the growth-plate zone of the bones. Clinical research
suggests no effect on future bone growth, but the
fracture can be debilitating, requiring months of
rehabilitation and loss of time snowboarding. |
| Those who use standard snowboard wrist
guards
typically have fractures that are exaggerated by the
high stress-concentration that's generated by their
rigid or semi-rigid designs, many times requiring
surgery. |
Dr. Binet's solution is a new category of wrist
guards.
Made of energy-absorbing DuPont Hytrel thermoplastic elastomer, a
2-stage flex-zone, and a tapered beam shape – the potentially injurious
loads from snowboard falls are re-directed and spread-out more uniformly
over the entire wrist and forearm to help reduce the incidence of wrist
fractures. An extensive “prospective” research study currently underway by
“Medicins de Montage” (Mountain Doctors), a group of 52 volunteer physicians
based in Publier, France, suggests a 60% reduction in snowboard wrist
fractures with the use of Flexmeter elastic wrist guards and gloves!
Presently, over 5,000 pair of Flexmeter elastic wrist guards and
gloves have been sold in Europe, beginning February, 2003.
Flexmeter recently won a “BrandNew” award at the world’s largest
snowboard trade show, ISPO, in Munich, Germany.
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Sadly, people don't realize the
true anguish of a wrist or forearm injury. The pain, time lost, and
‘overall’ cost of these injuries can be shocking. In my medical practice
I care for patients every year, who need weeks of recovery or surgery for
fractures that this product can help minimize or prevent."
Greg E. Paul, MD
Bellevue, WA , January 2007
read more
Flexmeter testimonials and the full text
of this one
Hi Lauren,
I wanted to email you and add my testimonial to the huge list of
positive feedback already on your site...
Patrick G., Charlottesville
Virginia,January 2008
read more
Flexmeter testimonials and the full text
of this one
Flexmeters Video Ad
"Got the Flexmeters, and just
used them for three great days at the Burton Women's LTR camp at Stratton
(VT). Everyone wanted to know where I got them! Thanks again.
"The Flexmeters are great - I felt really secure out there. A lot of people
I was riding with weren't wearing wrist guards, and wished they were by the
end of the day!" - Clare Duffy, March 2005
More customer testimonials here.
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Background Information/Research:
Unlike standard snowboard wrist guards, which are an off-shoot of
semi-rigid skate wrist guards, the new Flexmeter “elastic” wrist guards have
a patent-pending, two-stage flex zone that allow near-normal wrist movement.
Then, during severe wrist bending (hyperflexion) occurring during snowboard
falls - and sometimes even during uncontrolled snowboard maneuvers - the
second flex zone comes into play, changing the flex resistance of the
elastic wrist guards and spreading the potential-injury-load over the full
length of the elastic wrist guard, wrist and forearm, greatly reducing the
chance of wrist and arm fractures.
Leading sports research epidemiologists (1) agree that wrist fractures
are the #1 snowboarding injury, comprising 25% (men) to 50% (women) of all
snowboard injuries. The difference in the number of injuries between
men and women is due to wrist physiology. Snowboard wrist fractures
are evenly distributed by skill because beginners unconsciously extend their
arms in an attempt to brace many falls - while experts fall rarely, but with
high impact energy.
Research studies (2) place the total number of snowboard wrist
fractures at 95,000, worldwide, last year!
“With the advent of this new category of “elastic” wrist guards - by
Flexmeter - and their eventual diffusion into the snowboard market, there
could be a notable reduction in wrist fractures and overall snowboard
injuries, long term. For safety conscious parents, the elimination of
the typical $6,000 medical bill associated with this injury could be a
notable bonus. Industry wide, the reduction of over half a
billion dollars in injuries could be a major plus for the sport of
snowboarding”, says Rick Howell, distributor of Flexmeter in the U.S. and
Canada.
Stowe Reporter, Feb 5, 2004.
Flexmeter is a registered trademark of Skimeter.
Hytrel is a registered trademark of DuPont.
Flexmeter is patent-pending.
Peer-reviewed scientific research papers:
(1) Shealy, J.E., Ettlinger, C.F. and Buonomo, V.,
“Epidemiology of Snowboarding Injuries: 1988 to 1995”,
Skiing Trauma and Safety: Tenth Volume, ASTM STP
1289, Robert J. Johnson, C. D. Mote, Jr., and Arne Ekeland, Eds.,
American Society for Testing Materials, 1997, pp. 49-62.
(2) Greenwald, R.G., Nesshoever, M., and Boynton, M.D., “Ski Injury
Epidemiology: A Two Year Epidemiology Study of Injuries With
Skiboards”,
Skiing Trauma and Safety: Fourteenth Volume, ASTM STP 1440, Robert J.
Johnson, Ed., ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2003.
* (3) Binet, MH, Laporte, JD, Constans, D, “French Skiing Safety Network”
Publication pending in Proceedings of ISSS (International Society for Safety
in Snowsport), 2004.
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