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Anonymous wrote:I don't know. But last January my DH's close friend messed up his knee skiing so badly that he was on crutches and had a weird thing around his leg for months. Many months. His wife wants to ski, so they are back on the slopes this month.

We are getting older, so more of our cohort is having knee injuries. If you ski long enough, you will eventually need to get an ACL/MCL/meniscus surgery due to a tear. Sooooooo many of my friends in their 40s are getting the surgery after skiing 20-30 years.

Its why I still snowboard in my mid 40s. I've been doing it for 30+ years and I'm a LOT less likely to have a knee injury that requires surgery because I'm strapped to one board. Lots of skiiers with bad knees eventually take up snowboarding in their 40s-60s if they want to keep riding.

That said, snowboarders are more likely to encounter ankle, wrist, and collarbone breaks relative to skiers, IIRC.

I've been skiing for 36 years and have never had knee issues. How are they busting their knees out? Bad crashes?

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Anonymous wrote:There are way more skiers these days. Doubt the “rate” has gone up.

Tell that to the families of the victims!

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know. But last January my DH's close friend messed up his knee skiing so badly that he was on crutches and had a weird thing around his leg for months. Many months. His wife wants to ski, so they are back on the slopes this month.

We are getting older, so more of our cohort is having knee injuries. If you ski long enough, you will eventually need to get an ACL/MCL/meniscus surgery due to a tear. Sooooooo many of my friends in their 40s are getting the surgery after skiing 20-30 years.

Its why I still snowboard in my mid 40s. I've been doing it for 30+ years and I'm a LOT less likely to have a knee injury that requires surgery because I'm strapped to one board. Lots of skiiers with bad knees eventually take up snowboarding in their 40s-60s if they want to keep riding.

That said, snowboarders are more likely to encounter ankle, wrist, and collarbone breaks relative to skiers, IIRC.

Anonymous wrote:There are way more skiers these days. Doubt the “rate” has gone up.

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Anonymous wrote:Good article “ Studies show that helmets reduced non-serious head injuries, such as minor concussions, by nearly 70 percent in the 17 seasons between 1995 and 2012. But to Shealy’s amazement, there was no change in the number of fatalities. “The question became,”he says, “Why aren’t helmets saving people’s lives?”
From the somber task of reviewing more than 2,000 death certificates, Shealy knows that of the average 45 people who die skiing each year, the average fatality is a male traveling at high speed on a blue run who collides with a fixed object (usually a tree).”


https://www.skimag.com/gear/50-year-stud-on-helmets-and-injury-prevention/

Doesn't your brain move inside your skull causing injuries even with a helmet?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know. But last January my DH's close friend messed up his knee skiing so badly that he was on crutches and had a weird thing around his leg for months. Many months. His wife wants to ski, so they are back on the slopes this month.

Anonymous wrote:Good article “ Studies show that helmets reduced non-serious head injuries, such as minor concussions, by nearly 70 percent in the 17 seasons between 1995 and 2012. But to Shealy’s amazement, there was no change in the number of fatalities. “The question became,”he says, “Why aren’t helmets saving people’s lives?”
From the somber task of reviewing more than 2,000 death certificates, Shealy knows that of the average 45 people who die skiing each year, the average fatality is a male traveling at high speed on a blue run who collides with a fixed object (usually a tree).”


https://www.skimag.com/gear/50-year-stud-on-helmets-and-injury-prevention/

Anonymous wrote:Have conditions been icier than usual in certain areas? Wonder if this year's weather could be a factor.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I am. Seeing this. Perhaps it’s more the novices as well but also lack of training or sign posts. The poor woman was checked after her accident and cleared and then did right thing after more severe s/s and then surgery so perhaps it was surgery related? So sad! Still remember Natasha Richardson and a bunny slope but head to ice

The ones I remember are Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono because I was skiing that week.

I remember Natasha Richardson.

None of them had on a helmet.

Lynn Ban was wearing a helmet. If you watch the IG story where she's telling what happened she said so. I'm amazed that could end in death.

But I thought she had the surgery, survived, and was doing well- as in, posting stories on insta about what happened. And then she died like 3 weeks later- but why/ of what??