My daughter had a skateboard wipeout 1st of November. Broken fibula. My heart was broken. Doing fine now and she was posting about it while in the ambulance. Kids...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1609208314.jpg

getting to the top is a bit tiring.

When I lived in Germany I had a ski wreck that resulted in a torn meniscus. Three other people that I know had purchased from and had their skis adjusted by the same resale shop guy that did mine. All of us ended up having knee surgery due to that guy making our findings just a bit too tight. I was the lucky one, the others ended up with torn ACLs.

The good part of that story is that Germans tend to buy new skis yearly or every other year. Great 2nd hand market of perfect newish stuff.

In college I worked at a ski shop and my job was mounting/setting bindings and tuning skis. It was pretty straight forward using the binding manufacturers charts which takes into account boot length, skier height, weight and self proclaimed ability level. After setting I would just perform a crude release test in all directions and call it good. Back then we had to be certified by each binding manufacturer which was no big deal. Back then, I typically set my own bindings .5-1 din number higher than advanced setting as I skied bumps and hated having my bindings pop in the middle of a run. Racers typically would go with way stiffer release settings which is why so many have serious injuries when they crash.

I saw the Dr. this afternoon. I have a torn MCL which is a common knee injury. I will be following up with the acute injury knee clinic in the new year. In the mean time it’s continuing to wear the Sager splint and ice.

I’m hoping for a non surgical 6 week recover so I can get some turns in yet this year. Tomorrow I will be hanging out in our car at the ski hill writing a technical paper while my family skis...

They do have lifts you know.

I tele'd 100% for 15y then "fixed the heel to fix the problem". Now I only freeheel on good snow days, still with the old T1s and Hammerheads - so my tib/fib and ligaments are the release points for the system.

Sitting on the sofa's perfectly safe...

people go to a gym for exercise

"earn your turns"

Well, that just sucks.

Hope you get fixed up quick.

Unless you had an MRI, there is no way your Dr. could diagnose the knee completely. I've been doing knee diagnosis for over 20 years now, and the ortho surgeons (almost) always need an MRI for a complete diagnosis of a ski injured knee.

^^^ B-ball injury... 30+ years ago. Very slight fracture of my tibia, so I go in a full leg cast, rehab, and return to play six months later.... pop :(. During surgery, the ACL was found to be torn and atrophied from earlier... so I don't have one :(.

Dinosaur daze tho ;)...

Best to ya!

MRI is coming.

Good news. Here's to hoping there is nothing needing surgery!

How did he know it was an MCL tear?
Did he do a test like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtL1Oz0QqB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apG78GR4Dc

Yes and it hurt like a SOB...

He also had the same injury 4 years ago.

I got the MRI this morning (and the USB with the images on it). Based on what i am seeing and google images is showing me, my ACL looks OK but my MCL is definitely torn.

I will wait to hear from the medical professionals next week as to the next move(s).

That is very good news. MCLs heal remarkably well. ACL, not so much. Remain cartilage and menisci.

The experts have spoken. No less than 5 Docs have looked at my knee now and 4 reviewed the MRI report today.

Compression fracture on my tibia, ACL torn, MCL torn, multi ligament injury.

Surgery may be as early as next week... I’ll just hang out in this cryocuff until then...

Well, crap.
MCL and bone heal rather well. ACL is a different chapter in itself.
Menisci? Cartilage?

Well crap, this may be a ski ending injury, we will all hope for a full recovery, in the meantime...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2UkP0rySHA

How does the knee actually feel a week after the incident? Pain levels? Can you walk on it?