No matter how careful you are accidents happen. Even the most experienced skiers will come across bumps or other things that they do not anticipate. It is important to understand how skiing injuries are treated. When not taken care of, even the mildest injury can become a major catastrophe. This article contains a short list of the most common skiing injuries and the recommended treatments to each of them.
Sprained Knees
Even the most experienced skier can end up with a strained or sprained knee. There are quite a few different ways in which a knee can get strained or sprained so if you injure your knee while you are skiing, you need to make sure to have a doctor examine the knee thoroughly. It is important that you know exactly which parts of your knee are injured and how those strains or sprains happened. If you do not find this out, you run the risk of administering the wrong treatment! Typically the treatment of a knee sprain or strain is the administration of ice and the ingestion of an over the counter anti-inflammatory medication. You should ask your doctor before treating yourself, though, because if your knee has a major injury you could hurt yourself further.
Broken Wrists and Legs
As with knee strains and sprains, broken bones can happen to even the most experienced skier. Legs and writes are the most common bones that get broken on the ski slopes. Broken bones are not to be treated without medical help. Seek a doctor‚s help immediately to get your broken leg or broken wrist re-set and casted. To ensure that you have the smoothest healing period possible it is important that you make sure that your broken bone gets treated quickly and correctly by a professional.
Face Injuries
People who are unfamiliar with skiing believe that the various masks and goggles a skier wears are quite capable of protecting the skier from any sort of injury to the face or skull. These same people are very surprised to learn just how common injuries to the face are and that most of these facial injuries happen by the skier making facial contact with the t-bar! If you receive a blow to the face or skull make sure that you immediately get checked out by a medical professional to make sure that you have not broken any bones and that you do not have a concussion.
Other types of injuries are common. Be careful on the ski slopes!
The content of this page is informed by feedback from a practitioner in Surrey and also osteopaths in the Worcester area. Further input was received from osteopathic practitioners in Croydon and clinics in Cardiff. Finally a contribution was made by practices in Cambridge.