How to return to your ski sport as soon as possible after an injury!

Skiing is a sport that is really fun and popular with many athletes. It is an exciting sport that you can enjoy with your partner or alone. As with other sporting activities, skiing also risks injury, especially to the lower body, as legs and feet are the most common body parts in this sport. The most common injuries occur when your lower leg or foot turns outward, the knee bends inward, and the knee and muscles are heavily loaded and unfortunately often overloaded. Cruciate ligament rupture, meniscal injuries, lateral ligament injuries or muscle injuries are the result. Rehabilitation training is your solution.

Fortunately, skiing injuries are usually not life-threatening and you can quickly heal this injury through good medical advice, rehabilitation training, physiotherapy and specific training. Here are some popular treatments that will help you get back to your beloved ski sport.

Physical therapy:

Physiotherapy is one of the most demanding and recommended treatments that can help in the treatment of physical injuries. It is a non-surgical procedure designed to help wound healing, restore proper joint movement, and strengthen muscles. After you have injured yourself while skiing, make an appointment with an experienced and trained physiotherapist who can examine your condition and offer the best treatment.

The healing processes of injured musculoskeletal structures are structured and precisely timed. Depending on the structure and type of tissue, different phases of wound healing can be found: muscles, tendons, capsules, intervertebral discs or menisci are very different in terms of the duration of wound healing.

The phases of wound healing:

1. Inflammatory phase (duration up to 14 days)
2. Proliferation phase (duration up to 21 days)
3. Remodeling phase (duration up to 60 days)
4. Maturation phase (duration up to 500 days)

For optimum synthesis activity of the cells, it requires movement and enough oxygen, which is why as soon as possible, but adapted, with appropriate therapeutic exercises is started.

A special importance in the rehabilitation training after skiing injury, but also in the prevention should be placed on the training of knee joint stability. In a so-called drop-down jump and video analysis, one can easily analyze any valgus stress in the knee (knee tilts inwards) and avoid preventive injuries through appropriate training.

CONCLUSION:

1. Neuromuscular training can correct this attitude. Prevention is definitely possible
2. Musculature can be trained to perform plyometric jumps
3. Training of leg axis during the jump movements to prevent Knievalgus.

Here are some exercises that you can easily perform as part of your rehabilitation training after skiing injury or at home preventively, in order to protect yourself from injury in advance as possible. To perform the described exercises, the fitness steppers by Gorilla Sports are particularly suitable.

Rehabilitation training Exercise: Squats

Start position                                                      End position

Rehabilitation training Exercise: Calf Raises

Start position                                                      End position

Rehabilitation training Exercise: Knee Raise

Start position                                                      End position

Rehabilitation training Exercise: Step Ups

Start position                                                      End position

Rehabilitation training Exercise: Step Downs

Start position                                                      End position

Rehabilitation training Exercise: Pistols (only advanced)

Start position                                                       End position

Rehabilitation training Exercise: Back Lung

Start position                                                       End position

Massage Therapy:

You can also opt for massage therapy, as it also has benefits that can help you recover faster from the injury. Applying massage therapy to the injury can increase blood flow and reduce muscle inflammation, oxygenate the muscles, and improve lymphatic drainage. It can help to significantly reduce pain and give heat to affected muscles and bones.

Nutritional advice:

You can also seek expert nutritional advice to help you heal quickly after the injury. Nutrition experts help you find the right nutrients for your muscles and bones so you can get back on your skis quickly.