To go for skiing and survive

Are you planning a weekend on slope? Before you pack your ski suit and gloves, it is worth to remind, that skiing is cause of many accidents. Many of us run from desks right into the slope – and then return with unpleasant “souvenirs”.
- Skiing is a weird sport, which doesn’t seem to require big strength or abilities. Everyone can enter into the rental and choose equipment – says Steve Bollen, president of British Orthopedic Sports Trauma Association, surgeon-orthopedist in Royal Bradford Infirmary. – People go down the slope and when something’s going wrong they don’t have strength and abilities to handle themselves.
Tiredness, lack of fitness, wish of spending on slope as much time as possible, and increase of popularity of skiing weekends – all those things cause, that Bollen sees in the hospital more knee damages.
- Skiing is just created to break the ligaments in knees. – He says – Lower part of the leg is steady in boot, which is attached to almost 2 meters long lever. It’s not hard to imagine, to what overloads our knee is bringed under, when the ski is turned, and the ligaments won’t release. A loud crack can be heard, and another victim drives down the slope on toboggan.
Damages of ligaments – tissue holding knee – are very painful, they can require operation, and if they’ll remain without curing, they can cause a knee to never become fully efficient again. After watching over 200 patients Bollen came to a conclusion that the number of knee contusion gained with skiing have increased from 9% in year 1996 to 28% in 2004.
According to analysis made by Ski Club of Great Britain majority of skiing trips are 7-days or shorter. 28 percent of skiers say of themselves as “beginners”. Because in last year on skiing and snowboard went 1.3 millions of British we can expect, that the problem will rise.

Source: onet.pl