SNOW SKIING

Snowing Skiing Injuries

Snowing Skiing Injuries it happens. Alpine snow sports are increasing popular with an estimated 300 million skiers and snowboarders in the world. The USA has just over 57 million ski and snowboard visits with an estimated $7 billion dollars that is spent annually on the ski and snowboarding sport.

Alpine sports are so much fun and contrary to popular belief they do not pose a big threat to injuries. There are two concerns though that are quite common and they are:

Muscle soreness
Injury

The good news with these is that they are connected and largely preventable with pre-season exercise and care.

Muscle Soreness

Muscle Soreness usually occurs within a day or two of your ski outing. Since your muscles require strength and flexibility to keep you on your skis or snowboard for hours of participating in the sport. If you are not physically fit you can develop Delayed Onset muscles Soreness which gives you less of muscle control and can then lead to injury especially later in the week when you are sore and the muscles have become fatigued.

Injury

Injury can happen anywhere on the body since the chance of fall is high in less experienced skiers or snowboarders, but the most common area for injury is in the knee. Knee injuries are most commonly in the ligaments. The most frequent of these is an ACL injury.

British Sports Therapy

British Sports Therapy can help you prevent muscle injuries as well as helping you recover quickly from injuries. This can include but not limited to Soft Tissue Release, Myofascial techniques, stretching, cross fiber friction, and Trigger Point Therapy. After a thorough assessment of the athletes’ body mechanics, a treatment planned will be created to help you achieve your optimum performance.

Common Snow Ski Injuries

OTHER INJURIES BY SPORT

Olympic Sport Therapy

Sport injuries come unexpectedly. The more you push your body to its limits, the more you will have sport injury! So what are you going to do about it? Medical Massage and Sport Massage continues to improve every year. Health professionals, such as your physician, chiropractor and physical therapist will recommend massage for your condition knowing the benefits of it. If you wish to assess, accurately find out about your condition and optimally manage your sport injury in the shortest possible time, then you should book a free session with a specialist in sport massage at Olympic Sport Therapy.

Match Your Sport Needs With A Customized Massage

Knowing what type of sport you perform and to identify injuries specific to your chosen sport are found on this website. We have categorized the most common sport injuries specific to your sport. Simply select your sport from the tabs below and learn more about your sport injury.