Ski Club 2.0 Home
Snow Reports
FAQFAQ

Mail for help.Help!!
Log in to snowHeads to make it MUCH better! Registration's totally free, of course, and makes snowHeads easier to use and to understand, gives better searching, filtering etc. as well as access to 'members only' forums, discounts and deals that U don't even know exist as a 'guest' user. (btw. 50,000+ snowHeads already know all this, making snowHeads the biggest, most active community of snow-heads in the UK, so you'll be in good company)..... When you register, you get our free weekly(-ish) snow report by email. It's rather good and not made up by tourist offices (or people that love the tourist office and want to marry it either)... We don't share your email address with anyone and we never send out any of those cheesy 'message from our partners' emails either. Anyway, snowHeads really is MUCH better when you're logged in - not least because you get to post your own messages complaining about things that annoy you like perhaps this banner which, incidentally, disappears when you log in :-)
Username:-
 Password:
Remember me:
👁 durr, I forgot...
Or: Register
(to be a proper snow-head, all official-like!)

Study Suggests link between brain function and Knee injury
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Scientists have shown that differences in brain function may predispose some of us to non-contact knee injuries. A torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a very common skiing injury and all too often results from a non-contact incident. Now a study from Delaware University suggests that some measure of our vulnerability to such an injury is possible via mental testing.
...

Researchers at Delaware University administered neurocognitive tests to nearly 1,500 athletes at 18 universities during the preseason. Visual memory, verbal memory, processing speed, and reaction time all were assessed.
After the season, 80 athletes who sustained noncontact ACL injuries were matched up to a control group of 80 noninjured athletes according to height, weight, age, gender, sport, position and years of experience at the college level.
The athletes who ended up with noncontact ACL injuries demonstrated significantly slower reaction time and processing speed and performed worse on visual and verbal memory tests when compared to the control group.


So what light might this study shed on snowHead Lampbus's ACL injury in that ill-fated moment at last season's Mid Season Bash.

It's a challenge to explain how such a highly conditioned, muscular and coordinated athlete is injured, unless we consider that he was momentarily distracted the instant before his ski contacted the bank of snow, resulting in an awkward landing.

But Lampbus is not alone. An estimated 200,000 anterior cruciate ligament injuries occur annually just in the United States, mostly in young, healthy, active individuals.


More detail
snow report
snow report
 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

The examples they give are still impact accidents of a sort.

How about athletes who just snap the ligament with their own muscle power such as Michael Owen or Sarah Schleper ?
snow report
snow report



Terms and conditions  Privacy Policy