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Yet another racer blows an ACL knee ligament
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This time it's Mario Scheiber, a promising young member of the Austrian Ski Team who now sacrifices a season of his ambitions. Scheiber is one of countless victims of the combination of plastic boot and aggressive-carving ski that has multiplied the frequency of the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury in the past 30 years of skiing.
This report from
Ski Racing.
The anterior cruciate ligament tends to rupture when the skier is forced into the 'back seat', with the ski on edge and ready to exert damaging twisting stress to the knee while the femur and tibia pull apart. Not nice.
Have you blown or sprained your ACL? Did you need surgery?
How was the recovery, and is your skiing fine now?
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
David Goldsmith wrote:
Have you blown or sprained your ACL? Did you need surgery?
How was the recovery, and is your skiing fine now?
There are severeal snowHeads with personal experience of this injury
My wife suffered this injury 2 years ago and had reconstruction in September 2004. She'll never be a downhill racer, but gentle recreational skiing is fine.
Prior to the reconstruction, she had a go at skiing some very gentle (almost flat) runs but found it unpleasant as the upper and lower halves of her left leg tended to 'seperate' when she lifted it, due to the weight of the boot and the ski.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
My SO damaged his knee over 20 years ago, when his motorcycle tipped over when stationary. He never sought medical help, treated it himself as a sprain/strain. During the 1980's, he learned to ski and in the early 90's went to see a consultant to find out why the knee occasionally gave way. The consultant was able to separate upper and lower leg easily. The initial diagnosis of detached ACL was confirmed with arthroscopy, when the "bits" were tidied. He now skis wearing a CTI brace. The consultant's view was that since he had learned to ski with an ACL missing, reconstruction would not offer significant benefit.
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My wife suffered this injury 2 years ago and had reconstruction in September 2004. She'll never be a downhill racer, but gentle recreational skiing is fine.
