 Poster: A snowHead
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Still recovering actually. Took a high speed collision with my son, got knocked out and then proceeded to fly into a tree. Em...3 staples in my head, butterfly bandages for the cuts on my face, bruised ribs and surgery a week later to repair the severed ligament in my thumb. Fast forward almost 3 months...I've been skiing alot since then, just slower and with no poles because of cast, now splint. Thumb is still healing...hair is growing back where the laceration was and I have a "Nike Swoosh" scar on my temple. I was really lucky all in all....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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nextascent, and how is your son 
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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?
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nextascent, I assume that your son is ok.
At the end of this last weeks skiing my list of injuries is one bruised shoulder, one broused elbow, and one bruised knee. All from failing to land jumps.
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Hmm judging from some of these reports, there are a few snowHeads who need to stop taking the piddle out of me!
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D G Orf, Well lucky you , 21 winters and 60+ weeks of skiing for me and my only injury of note is the result of a woman hitting my right shoulder so hard that I was lifted out of both bindings, result broken collarbone 8+ weeks and counting>the only lessons that I can think of being useful for me right now are those that would enable me to read a heads up display in a helmet mounted radar. 
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CP Sadly no tea dancing for me at the Posta Zirm thisyear. Something to go back for next year! The staples come out today... [/img]
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Last month--on a bit of off-piste terrain (I trustingly followed a friend who didn't know the way..)--I had a gentle fall---which did't seem bad at the time. But a couple of hours later, I just happened to look in a mirror--and I had a huge black eye--which got worse each day after--so I looked like a battered wife (without a husband--alas!) Then when I got home, I had excrutiating back-ache for 2 weeks--was it that fall--I wonder?? 
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snowbunny, don't get me wrong, I have been lucky I've been hit by out of control skiers at high speed twice in the last 10 years in both cases I got away without injury, the first time I was off the edge of a piste behind a cowshed waiting for some friends when a British idiot came hurtling arround the corner of the shed just missing the roof and straight into me, fortunately the ski sticks I was leaning on at the time took the impact, bending quite significantly but preventing him from actualy hitting my body, the last time was a glancing blow from a skier with no control going straight down the fall line of the slope, if our skis had become entangled it could have been very nasty as it was I stayed upright and he proceded to roll to the bottom of the slope about 200M away. So luck does play a part in not being seriously injured, but so does training and experience.
Masque, my comments wern't aimed at you, though your record as publisised by yourself is somewhat excessive 
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D G Orf, I am angry that a resort can believe that it is ok to have skiers arriving/departing at all cardinal points of the compass and at any speed, and to put no speed/direction control in place to manage flow. Still, they can just sit back and watch the Euros roll in from all the accidents. I suggest that the tuition requirement from my incident is for the resort management. 9 weeks today, and collar bone still broken.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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and out of the above accidents in this thread,how many were wearing helmets
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Chris Brookes, This one was 
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I wasn't wearing a helmet; fortunately no head injuries
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You know it makes sense.
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Two "injuries" from my latest trip...
1. On Tuesday in Vail I didn't put enough suncream on, and managed to burn my face, so that it blistered. The blisters have gone, as has the skin, so I'm not bright red below the goggle line.
2. At Beaver Creek on Friday, I picked up my Heads at the end of the day, and managed to cut the back of my hand with their edges.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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toby wright, How many weeks from injury?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Got my collar bone examined by another consultant today (at 10 weeks) It's still well broken
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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?
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Wear The Fox Hat, that's the only problem with head skis those edges stay really sharp, which is great on ice but not so hot on hands or clothes
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snowbunny, nearly 4 years and counting for mine. It's not the healing, it's the ease of subsequent injury and the over estimation of its strength. I made the mistake of assuming that I could recover to 100% from a class 3 AC destruction without taking the rehab to extreme (in relative terms) levels.
Once you’re cleared to resume full mobility and 100% joint loading talk to John Wells about developing a good weight bearing strength programme for your shoulder(s), add a flexibility class (Pilates etc.) to ensure full range of movement and recovery from the strength exercises and you’ll really appreciate it when you get older.
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toby wright, Blimey, you must be superman!. The consultant who examined my collarbone yesterday gave me some extra info. He had a paper published on these injuries so had a particular interest.
1.The length of time for recovery is often determined by the force of the impact.
2.Either the clavicle breaks, or the AC joint gets damaged, rarely both.
3.Mine may take 4 months (boo hoo)...and even then.... 
Make sure that you request and get the xray-have a good look and ask lots of q's about rebuilding the muscles and limitations in exercise - and good luck |
Well, mine was pretty slow speed, turning just before the lifts at Motteret, and didnt spot a heap of snow... straight over onto the harder packed stuff and my shoulder took the full impact.. but...
heck, maybe I am over estimating it
I've been getting a bit paranoid about it over the last few days as it seemed much better until I overdid it, vacuuming of all things  and had to take some painkillers again... Seems ok today tho..
But I am a bit worried about redamaging it again as my other sport, ( gliding ), involves lifting a fair bit of weight to put the wings on !!
see tomorrow I guess, and like you say, insist on the xray and lots of questions about lifting an when I can exercise properly again..
thanks for the kind wishes 
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Masque, What do you mean "get" older 
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Masque, I think I had a bit of a setback when my GP sent me for physio 4 weeks ago 
I am used to having good upper body strength , I enjoy bouldering, indoor walls etc If you had a Class 3 AC injury you would be expected to make a full recovery, 4 years is too long, Prolotherapy been offered?
My injury is straightforward, a simple clean fracture, no complications, and apparently no ligament damage. It is simply taking forever to heal-10+ weeks of indulgence, no housework/cooking/gardening/driving. I asked the consultant "What do I have to do to get this healed" - his response was, that there is nothing for me to do except wait. I am not by nature a patient patient ! Who is John Wells please?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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snowbunny, "bunny" does imply a sense of youth . . . I'm assuming you're not going to edit your profile to 'snowmutton' ?
John Wells is a snowhead who can assist your rehab, do a member search and PM him for guidance on strength training.
As 4 me, it's just a matter of repeated re-injury through 'pushing the envelope' and too little r&r . . . my fault but it's been addressed and is getting better. I'm finding that I can't use the recovery rates I used in my youth as a yardstick today . . . as much as I'd like to. But I am looking to how periods of enforced inactivity affect recovery rates, body image and progressive reductions in accepted fitness. Aging and injury should not (but do) have influence on our self image and how we approach future activities.
There’s a lot of truth in the expression ‘live each day as if it were your last’.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I fractured 2 vertebrae on Jan 29. Season over. They have healed very well so I'm ready for more action.
Landed a jump badly. Not impressed I tell you.
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You know it makes sense.
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Ouch
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| snowbunny wrote: |
toby wright, Blimey, you must be superman!. The consultant who examined my collarbone yesterday gave me some extra info. He had a paper published on these injuries so had a particular interest.
1.The length of time for recovery is often determined by the force of the impact.
2.Either the clavicle breaks, or the AC joint gets damaged, rarely both.
3.Mine may take 4 months (boo hoo)...and even then....
Make sure that you request and get the xray-have a good look and ask lots of q's about rebuilding the muscles and limitations in exercise - and good luck |
Well, the visit to the hosptial went well, I think.... 
The doctors there wouldnt let me have an x-ray, or give me any new painkillers... but..
after much feeling the bone and making me wave my arm in every direction and to every extremity, they declared my collarbone mended, with the proviso that it will still hurt for the next 8 weeks, and to avoid any heavy lifting with that arm...
Other than that I'm signed off to start running/swimming/flying/driving again, and just have to be careful thats all..
No 'proper' physio, as apparently my swimming should be enough
So back to work for me I'm afraid
hope your collarbone improves soon Snowbunny..
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Poster: A snowHead
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toby wright, Congratulations-you are superman then, doooo be careful, perhaps no glider assembly for the next 8 weeks!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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thanks
you're right, persuade someone else to put my wings on for a bit I think !!
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