Ski Season or Knee Season?

As parts of northern holidaymakers teeth ski season knee for the dental clinic for the avalanche of skiers quickly to stockpile them in the door! Let’s see why.

First altitude. Even in the cities at the bottom of the slopes may take several days to acclimatise to the altitude. Had woken up in the morning to find the first eye swollen? Low atmospheric pressure in the fluid escapes from the blood vessel and into the tissue. However, holiday skiers often race straight to the slopes, where the pressure is even lower, and in short supply of oxygen.

Next take dehydration. Themselves to the tissues in the body fluids because of low atmospheric pressure in the leaves of dry blood. Even very dry air you breathe as the rain is going out of the liquid atmosphere. Dehydration can lower your blood pressure, so now the brain is fueled with the blood under pressure and contain less oxygen. This may show mild fatigue, headache and a little breathless light. Easy to put down only to the bracing exercise, and decided to stop at the top and hot with a glass of mulled wine. Oops, alcohol in the oxygen-starvation? Not good for the head, but not good for the muscles of both legs.

So let’s look at the muscle. How often do you spend six hours a day with the knees bent five degrees? Well, you do when you ski. Your quads and hamstrings muscles to work overtime, they use the stored fuel and further compromised by their low blood pressure and oxygen deficit.

Now switch to the ski bindings. Those who rent a ski usually benefit from specialist engineers adjust the bindings in accordance with the high and the experience of the skier. People with their own ski bindings May adapt, and ensure that they are good and tight, so skiing is not with each crash. Bindings that are intended to be separated when you crash, to save the moment stress is not given to knee!

Finally the snow. If only one can guarantee every holiday will be blessed with good snow. With only a week vacation, it’s too bad if the snow is not optimal and holidaymakers have little choice except to exit the slopes anyway.

Now we have the complete recipe for disaster cruciate ligament in the knee. Half with a bit snow to ski in a trap. Bindings tight to ensure that the moment the rotating ski will be transferred directly from the bindings to cross ligaments in the knee. Quads and hamstrings contaminated muscle can not protect cruciates. Suddenly a loud CRACK! There is a first run of cross ties and go there the rest of vacation!

My advice is. If you want to enjoy the ski season to book more than one week. Books to the local sports for several sessions under the supervision of you before you leave on vacation. Then spend several days acclimatising in the bottom of slopes and enjoy your down mulled wine when there rehydrates your body and your blood pressure to adjust compensation to low oxygen pressure. Your knees will be very grateful and knee clinic, which will only have to go home and wait for the developers football season!