Dear Wakeboarder,
The Center of Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics Foundation for Research is conducting a survey of wakeboarders and their ACL injuries due to wakeboarding. The results of this study will be analyzed and submitted to scientific journals. All survey responses will remain anonymous. We request that you sign and date two copies of the informed consent and keep one copy for yourself and send the other one back to the Center for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics along with the completed survey either by email, mail of fax at your earliest convenience. If you have any video footage or pictures that can be provided of you at the time of the ACL injury (this is to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanism of the injury), please send those as well. Your identity will be protected in these images or footage by blacking out the face of any images used in publications, posters, etc. We hope this information will aid in prevention of ACL injury in wakeboarders along with providing how common the injury rate is. Thank you in advance for your participation.
Best Regards,
Danette Newton
Research Department
Center for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics
2415 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga, TN 37404
423.697-8817
Fax: 423:697-8776
csmo_survey@yahoo.com