| What kind of injury? |
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15% |
[ 9 ] |
| Minor scrapes and bruises |
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29% |
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| Minor twists/sprains |
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14% |
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| Torn ligaments |
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15% |
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| Fractures |
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8% |
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| Back injuries |
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1% |
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| Neck injuries |
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0% |
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| Head injuries |
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1% |
[ 1 ] |
| Several of the above! |
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12% |
[ 7 ] |
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Sort of linked to the fitness question, what sort of injuries have snowHeads suffered on the slopes? If any, what do you put them down to? Inexperience, lack of fitness, sheer stupidity  ? Other idiots on the slopes?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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PG as I'm the 1st, I've rather skewed the poll - actually it was a dislocated shoulder near the end of the season, just before one of those late season powder dumps. 
Certainly not lack of fitness (about day 60 on snow that season) or inexperience; just one of those unlucky, freak accidents - slipped on ice at very slow speed and fell awkwardly - probably not really concentrating! My 1st serious injury on snow despite many poor attempts at landing jumps...
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None really, probably because a I was fortunate enough to learn whilst very young, when you are fearless and just bounce back up again!
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I sprained an ankle skiing off piste, one ski went under the tree root the other over the top, could have been a lot worse and it was the last day of the holiday so the timing could have been worse too, that was a long time ago though something like 25 years ago, nothing more serious since 
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On recent trips nothing to report. In fact almost no falls either. Probably not trying hard enough. But a bad one some years back. With hind sight I was skiing above the level my bindings were set at and on a turn at the edge of a steep piste both released and threw me into powder. Rolled for a bit and the trunk of a huge Christmas tree stopped me. Damaged ribs at the back. If the contact had been with any limb or head I reckon it would have been really serious. Fortunately, it was on the last day of my holiday. The transfer with my own kit was a painful nightmare. Have tended to stay above the tree line ever since. And I check the bindings are at the right setting.
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As reported previously in another place, I managed a fracture of my tib & fib two years ago. A spiral fracture because the bindings didn't release when they should. Needless to say that when I hit the white stuff again this year, I made SURE that the bindings were right. Actually probably too low a setting, but hey, I'd rather lose a ski than lose any more quality skiing time through another injury 
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Tony Ellwood, A moot point! There are those who consider that skis releasing too early through too low a setting are a major and avoidable hazard!
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Actually probably too low a setting
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Tony - see above - too low can also be dangerous. Mine were set for a fat 40 something on blues cruising and I was on a black. No warning all week. Like you I wouldn't have minded one ski off but 2 in a critical place. Stopped me laughing. A French lady who witnessed my wipeout threw up she was so convinced I was a goner.
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I'm the one 'several of the above' so far. Stupidity - following my kids over a series of jumps way beyond my ability, nasty upper back bruising that I felt for a couple of years. Inattention - virtually knocked out by a drag lift once, plus a torn muscle from taking a chair in the calf muscle unprepared. Dislocated thumb from catching a small child sliding ever faster down an icy black slope (he should never have been there). Overenthusiasm - painful knees for ages after trying to force turns in powder when I simply wasn't good enough early on - should have taken those lessons.... Still, touch wood, the last couple of seasons have been ok. Maybe I've learnt my lesson.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Last morning of the season (3 ago) after biiiig party, first tracks on borrowed blades (first time ever) drifted of the side onto some refrozen run-off and accelerated towards a steep drop-off and an ugly boulder scree field, was unconscious before the second bounce (even with helmet), destroyed right shoulder joint, humerous broke three ribs under my arm-pit and collapsed the one lung I’ve got left, dislocated pelvis. Woke up in Lyon. I was fine till my crappy ins. co. shipped me back and I was entrusted to the filth strewn corridors of the NHS. Still working to get back some semblance of decent fitness but otherwise ok and still sliding but when it gets v’steep and icy I’m a real wus – it’s a mind thing but It’s getting better and better.
The real prob - my stupidity at the time!
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You know it makes sense.
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Cracked my fibula on the last day in Panorama - but managed to ski some bumps straight after! Wasn't a bad break though - two weeks in plaster. Should be on skis again in a couple of weeks.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Masque did you learn anything else from the experience, e.g Don't go out on unfamiliar gear the night after a heavy party ?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Masque, OUch. I sympathise with the NHS thing too. On the whole the system is way better in France, even if they can't afford it - the cracks are beginning to show. Keep that recovery going...
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The most painful at the time was in Tignes last season scraping back from Val’d on the ‘campanules’ run, I got desperate for a pee, it was very quiet so I skidded over to the piste side to become ‘french’ for a minute. Didn’t unstrap, just set my toe edge and started the process. Just as the stream started, I heard the sound of skiers, I looked up, lost my balance, slid back, caught a heel edge and used a kidney to bounce off an ice rock onto the piste then sliding on my back headfirst down the run right in the middle of a bunch of (mostly women) german skiers – still spraying! I can still remember the sound of laughter as they disappeared down the slope.
The injuries? One very bruised and bleeding kidney that left a bruise from my ribcage to my thigh, blood in urine, a 280Euro scan bill, breathing my own piddle . . . and the cheers every time I limped into ‘Crowded House’!
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Ouchh now that's bad, an injured pride to go with the physical and wallet injuries, Masque are you sure you're cut out for snowsports ?
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Masque, brilliant.
My injury list is fairly short - knocked myself unconcious at Llandudno ski slope (as mentioned on another thread), damaged my cartlidge, same venue different occasion, broke my wrist trying to snowboard in Wengen, and a ski shaped bruise on my back from earlier this year.
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In quite a few seasons I have had two concussions, three cracked ribs, one broken rib, cracked coxyxx, an inordinate amount of bruises, one black eye, three broken fingers, and in one stunning wipe out wrapped myself around a telemarker and managed hairline fracture in jaw, tore back thumb and completely ruptured ACL - the classic ski injuries all in one fell swoop! Ow... and keep going back for more...
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What about aprés ski injuries??? None myself but was in Chamonix last week and one young swedish girl got knocked out by a body surfer in Chambre Neuf!!!!! It was Insane! 
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Masque, good job you sport of choice isn't sky diving
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dolphingirl have you been to see a shrink yet ? 
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he's the one that got me back out there....
french physios are the answer - patch you up and send you back out, although I do resemble robocop on the slopes now...! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Ok fine just checking, it would be irresponsible for me to do otherwise
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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In Bourg St Maurice sports injury clinics/psychologists/physios outnumber GPs 3 to 1! That's got to be saying something about our chosen sport....
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Still, there seems to be an inordinate quantity of hairdressers too. What does this imply ??? 
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You know it makes sense.
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Bloody Hell Masque! Wish you'd told me that before the La Ros trip! David hinted at it, but even so......... 
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Funny you should bring that up I've been told that Interlaken hospital is a center for knee injuries, I think that means they're very good at treating / doing surgery on them which I suppose makes sense given its close proximity to several ski areas, ACL damage anybody ?
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Poster: A snowHead
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I know someone who popped his achilles straning to put his boots on in the rental shop the very first day of a ski holiday. His own fault though, he had 'never' done any exercise, and I mean never, in his 40 something odd years. Still, it can happen to the fittest as well - one of the stars of the Les Arcs club, World Cup tour standard, is only just back in the European Cup circuit after snapping his achilles tendon in training a couple of seasons ago.
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PG: you should have been in La Ros’ 09:00 last Xmas morning.
After making a commitment (at 04:30) to meet up with some fellow boarders for the first run on Xmas day; There I was, first in queue.
Lifty beckons us forward, I slide one leg through leaving the other behind the turnstile as it clicks round, I attempt to lift my back leg over I fall, twisting and turning at the same time.
Don’t ask my how, but my board ends up through and across all three gates, I’m lying face up staring at two shocked lefties and trying not to throw up.
Can’t get my board out, can’t even see how to get it out, both lifties start to pull and tug, then call the other two at the chairs to give a hand and after (what felt like a week) about two minutes got me untangled . . . and all the time . . . the queue just stood and stared! No laughing, no muttering, no sound, NOTHING but angry staring.
Anyway I was first onto the chairs, got myself organized and relaxed on an utterly beautiful morning, top of the hill I lifted the bar, slid forward to slide off and . . . face-planted! Chairs ground to a halt, I picked myself up, looked back under my chair and there are the same faces, in an orderly row of threes . . . staring back at me!
Hid in the ‘Traversette’ with water and coffee for a couple of hours until I could be sure that body and mind were riding the same snow.
Injured? . . . I bl**dy well would have been if that queue had caught up with me.
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I'll admit to not doing a lot of exercise, and sitting here typing is not making my record any better, but to Never exercise and expect to ski is just stupid, at over 40 he was lucky to snap his tendon, it might have been much worse on the slope if he had made it out there 
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Masque thanks for that I needed a good laugh
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D G Orf, they never learn.... nothing to do with lack of exercise, according to his reasoning it was entirely his kids' fault for persuading him to have a go in the first place..... 
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Partial MCL tear in Lech - It wasn't the fall that did it, it was trying to straighten my legs whilst sliding down on my back! I know better now.
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Dislocated shoulder after 2 hours of cross country skiing - never do that again.
Both elbows disfigured by black egg shaped haematomae with bruising from wrist to shoulder both arms and neck in collar for 3 weeks after slipping on ice coming out of a bar.
Technicolour bruising of leg from ankle to hip last time I did poles on the dry slope (have to put picture of that on the site  )
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Alan I think we could probably do without the picture the description was more than sufficient !
PG there's always an excuse
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Broken bones and lots of them. snapped the medial condile off my left femur due to a binding releasing prematurely on snow. broken nearly every bone in my hands due to dry slope racing. two broken ribs from a cliff drop.
i have had a fair few sprains to my ankles and wrists, dislocated shoulder and been knocked unconcious twice by a slalom gate and a rock. I have also had frost bite twice in my big toes. and lots and lots of bruises, grazes, ice burns, and cuts from sharpening edges.
I'm surprised i'm still alive.
also when training slalom i was coming down at the end of the day with the drill in my rucksack. I hit a bump at speed and the drill dit cracked in to the back of my head leaving a nice cut and a slight chip in my skull. (i was wearing a helmet at the time, it went under it).
PS, this is in 15 years of competitive skiing. i'm not that much of a klutz really
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Oh well at least it will have healed for next year! 
