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Most Common Ski Related Injuries?

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AGallant
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My friends, and myself included seem to have been getting hurt a lot in the past year skiing..I was just wondering what the most common injuries were while skiing, and what injuries have you had?


Jun 3 2013 10:21AM
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Pikachu.
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acl
Jun 3 2013 10:56AM
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Huck_Norris
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skier's thumb
shin bang (lol)
acl tears

Big 3 right there, and one of them is completely avoidable by simply not sucking at skiing.
Jun 3 2013 10:58AM
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fortyvalve
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falling onto an outstretched arm (i.e. using your arm to brace your fall) is prob the most common and you can get super unlucky like me lol. i had previous rotator cuff wear and tear from baseball, but i'm 90% sure when i fell superman position on a huge kicker at stratton when i was like 13/14, was the reason i actually tore my rotator cuff and had a SLAP tear.
Jun 3 2013 11:05AM
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bighomieflock
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I hurt my rotator cuff in the same way last week snowboarding. I was going pretty fast through a flat spot and wasn't paying much attention and I hit a patch of slush and caught a front edge right onto my outstretched arm.
Jun 3 2013 11:14AM
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Bjudes
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Well they were talking about skiing... Not snowboarding...soooo
Jun 3 2013 11:33AM
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AGallant
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Yeah, to me it seems as though snowboarders usually get the shoulder, and collarbone type injuries more often.
Jun 3 2013 11:35AM
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bighomieflock
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No... he was saying that you can hurt your rotator cuff by landing on an outstretched arm and I was confirming because I just had the same fall.

Snowboarding is worse for the upper body injuries but they're definitely still possible on skis.
Jun 3 2013 10:41PM
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oil.
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being a ski patroller, the most common injury i see is torn acl's. these range from partial tears to full tears.
for snowboarders the most common is the broken or fractured wrist.
we also do a lot of backboards, most are precautionary, but nonetheless are sometimes vital. we see a handful of concussions.
traction irons (broken femurs) are a rare occurrence. we can do 1-3 a year, and 3 is a lot.
Jun 3 2013 11:09PM
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.Rybak.
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broke/sprained thum(skiers thumb) and acl
Jun 3 2013 11:10PM
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RockNRollNghtClb
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acl
collarbone
thumb
broken leg, but not as common
Jun 3 2013 11:16PM
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Seth.S
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AC sprain (separated shoulder)
Dislocated shoulder
skier's thumb
anything knee related
Jun 3 2013 11:17PM
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corona
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ski patrol at smaller hill and see a lot of shoulder injuries (dislocation and clavicle breaks) and wrists (especially boarders). knees injuries to a lesser extent
Jun 3 2013 11:22PM
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FreeskiThe603
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skiers thumb is so fucking annoying! I slammed mine the third weekend of the season and it still hasnt fully healed
Jun 3 2013 11:50PM
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CashmereCat
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I got a torn meniscus this year, and from previous years, I'd say anything knee related. Either that or broken ankles.
Jun 4 2013 12:06AM
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Spiri7o
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THE THUMB
Jun 4 2013 12:20AM
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7-3instacall
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god i wish all i had was skiers thumb...dont complain about it if you have it... maybe you were about to blow your fucking ACL but then god decided to just fuck your thumb up instead.. be happy,
but yah
ACL is definatley # 1 (miniscus too but lets all put it in the same category)
the rest arent as popular but id say dislocated shoulders
then maybe collar bone, i dont know
fuck acl's -_-
Jun 4 2013 12:33AM
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Toaster-Tony
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Same with me. Whenever I take some falls on my forearm and shoulder, my cuff always gives me a lot of pain. It's getting to the point where I can't throw balls or even raise my arm too fast without a lot of pain.
Jun 4 2013 12:42AM
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fortyvalve
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yeah man i actually ended up taking the surgery route because of baseball, so i found the best arthroscopic shoulder surgeon in the east coast for the surgery. low and behold the surgery is done and 5 years later i still can't throw a baseball without pain, but it doesn't hurt when i'm just moving it regularly. if you're having pain just moving it, i know my story isn't really comforting, but surgery really is your best option especially if it's bothering your every day life.
Jun 4 2013 7:50AM
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ANDR01D
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I've only just started park skiing in the past year or two. But before I started hitting the park I tore both my ACLs, had a couple of undiagnosed concussions, and sprained my AC joint. I'm what you call accident prone.
Jun 4 2013 9:37AM
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Juicy-J
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just get full tilts
Jun 4 2013 9:57AM
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00000000
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Hangovers
Jun 4 2013 10:47AM
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Turd.Ferguson
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shin bang
hangover
falling off chairlift due to hangover
frost bite
afterbang syndrome
Jun 4 2013 10:48AM
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Huck_Norris
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Mine hurts all the time I've almost broken it on several occasions. I know a few people who have had to have surgery on that ligament though- they couldn't even grip a piece of paper it was so bad.
Jun 4 2013 10:52AM
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sNaubi
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BROKEN ANKLES! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


No, but pretty much what's already been said.
Jun 4 2013 10:54AM
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snowpocalypse
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I fracture egos left and right! Mostly my own. O-well
Jun 4 2013 11:14AM
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SPUTnik.
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anything in the shoulder area
Jun 4 2013 11:30AM
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Toaster-Tony
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Its not too bad during the summer but I've definitely considered it on those winter mornings when it gets tough to put my arm in my jacket.
Jun 4 2013 1:25PM
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Stainr
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skiers thumb FTW
Jun 4 2013 1:27PM
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AGallant
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this hahaha. I broke my tibia and fibula earlier this year, and just gonna get full tilts forever now
Jun 4 2013 1:44PM
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Zimmy
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Big thread currently on HN about ACL injuries https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5814728
Jun 4 2013 3:17PM
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Hughes
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i always thought the collarbone was quite a common one to injure
Jun 4 2013 3:34PM
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SteezyMagee
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I've broken my wrist twice, and def shingang
Jun 5 2013 8:17AM
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Balto
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Forced Anal penetration from look/rossi "dildo" style heal pieces. if you have fks and have ever landed really back seat you know what I mean
Jun 5 2013 10:17AM
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1337
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It's such a violating feeling, I have nightmares about it :'(
Jun 5 2013 10:30AM
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CKpolicy
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when i broke my leg a few years back, before the pain had set in, i was really afraid that i blew out my knee (all i could feel was a warm tingling at the time). Was very relieved to learn it was just a minor tib fracture. I dislocated a shoulder last season, i know many people who have done the same, it seems pretty common in skiing. Hear about many broken wrists from snowboarder friends.
Jun 5 2013 10:31AM
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last_tango
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Breaking your thumb has to be the most stupid and annoying injury ever.
Jun 5 2013 10:57AM
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Iraq_Lobster
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shin bang and wrist sprains have gotten me the past few years
Jun 5 2013 11:15AM
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chacha33
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ya kang grabs will really fuck up your wrist
Jun 5 2013 11:39AM
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Slidemyrail
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ACL tears..
broken ribs
concussions/ waking up in hospitals
stitches beyond counting, hit by skiers, hit by own skis crashing, blasted kneecap skin apart on rail
Snowrash? like roadrash, usually the warmer temps but this can suck pretty bad..
Jun 5 2013 2:14PM
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APAUK
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shin bang and cracked ribs. if your hips arnt purple by the end of the weekend then you are not going hard enough.
Jun 5 2013 2:17PM
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jimmytheskiier
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i tore my MCL and my meniscus but i would say the most common injury is in the knee or hand area
Jun 5 2013 3:56PM
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KMOAYERI
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Knees I've had two knee injurys on my left knee and im not allowed to ski jumps anymore
Jun 5 2013 5:45PM
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methscratchface
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tib/fib, MCL, broken relationships, and liver damage....totally worth it all!!!
Jun 5 2013 6:38PM
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SunburntSquad
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Tanner Halls ankles get broken sometime I heard.
Jun 5 2013 6:42PM
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RimJobber
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Concussions. Even with a helmet I've gotten a couple
Jun 5 2013 8:08PM
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KBdaOG
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dislocated and fracture shoulder in 3 places
Jun 5 2013 10:23PM
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Alyon
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Dislocated my hip a couple years ago. My femur came right out of the socket, that fucking sucked but ive never heard of it happening to anyone else
Jun 6 2013 2:47AM
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AGallant
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How the hell did you do that?
Jun 6 2013 8:14AM
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FatherMcGonogall
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When your little boy penis gets stuck in a binding.
Jun 6 2013 8:22AM
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Ginger_Drew
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I feel as though shoulder injuries are becoming more and more common as the sport progresses and people push themselves to new levels where we end up landing quite hard on our shoulders. This past season I have separated my left shoulder twice and cracked my right shoulder blade. These injuries aren't as noticed as big injuries like ACL tears due to the fact that the recovery time is much shorter where depending on how bad the injury was they could be back skiing within days...
Jun 6 2013 12:29PM
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