Ski injury prevention

SKI INJURY PREVENTION

(From AAOS)

Skiing is an increasingly popular sports activity for youths as well as adults. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were more than 131,000 skiing-related injuries treated at hospital emergency rooms, doctors' offices and clinics in 2007. The total medical, legal and liability, pain and suffering, and work loss-related costs were more than $4.5 billion.

Follow these tips to Play It Safe and enjoy a safe ski season:

If possible, skiers should ski with partners and stay within sight of each other. If one partner loses the other, stop and wait.
At the start of each new day, skiers should take a couple of slow ski runs to warm up.
Skiers should watch out for rocks and patches of ice on the ski trails. Skiers should make adjustments for icy conditions, deep snow powder, wet snow, and adverse weather conditions.
Skiers should stay on marked trails and avoid potential avalanche areas such as steep hillsides with little vegetation.
Skiers should buy boots and bindings that have been set, adjusted, maintained and tested by a ski shop that follows American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard job practices.
Skiers should check the binding of each ski before skiing. The bindings must be properly adjusted to the skier's height and weight.
Skiers should rest when fatigued. Most injuries occur when skiers are tired at the end of the day.

Prolotherapy, PRP, some other modalities mentioned are medical techniques that may not be considered mainstream. As with any medical treatment, results will vary among individuals, and there is no implication that you will heal or receive the same outcome as patients herein. There could be pain or substantial risks involved. These concerns should be discussed with your health care provider prior to any treatment so that you have proper informed consent and understand that there are no guarantees to healing.

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