If you’ve mastered the #Knees4Skis 8 Essential Exercises to Help Reduce Knee Injury and you’re looking to add more exercises – here are 3 more recommended by our experts Dr. Mark Heard, Orthopaedic Surgeon at Banff Sport Medicine, and Lynne Richardson, Physiotherapist at the Rocky Mountain Rehab & Sports Medicine Clinic.
Menisci are a type of cartilage inside the knee joint. Their main function is to equally distribute the force placed on the knee, stabilize the knee during movements, and offer more fluid movements.
Learn how Banff Sport Medicine Physician, Dr Andy Reed, is recovering from a recent injury in his latest Bow Valley Crag & Canyon article.
In his latest Bow Valley Crag & Canyon article, Banff Sport Medicine Physician Dr Andy Reed, reflects on his recent injury.
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There are a lot of ways to build and maintain fitness. If you work in a physical job like wildland firefighting or tree planting or are a competitive athlete (or just train like one), your baseline fitness from work and exercise will be very high.
Tearing the ACL— a dreaded diagnosis often accompanied by reconstructive surgery and extensive rehabilitation. This injury is common in sports that involve sudden stops or changes in direction, jumping or landing, such as soccer, basketball, gymnastics, football, or downhill skiing.
The name “Tennis Elbow” suggests tennis players are highly prone to this particular injury. While this can be the case due to their wrist bending backwards when they hit the ball, this injury is more common in people who don’t play professional tennis. Any job or sport which requires frequent backward bending or overuse of…
You’ve probably had, or know someone who’s had, an injury called an ‘’overuse’’ injury. Maybe it happened after doing seemingly not much, or after having already stopped activities. You may be overly excited at the beginning of the ski season, go for 2 consecutive full days (perhaps you also want to make your $150 daily…
Shoulders are the most commonly dislocated joint[1] due to their extreme mobility. The shoulder is sometimes called a ball and socket joint. The ball of the shoulder is the rounded head of the upper arm or humerus bone, and the socket is the shallow dish on the side of the shoulder blade or scapula bone…
Valgus isn’t a word you’ll hear underneath the chair lifts or in the maze awaiting the gondola. But when you see it happen in a ski or snowboard crash, you’ll know by the unsettling visceral response your body shutters. Someone’s day just went valgus.
In his latest Bow Valley Crag & Canyon article, Banff Sport Medicine’s Dr Andy Reed, talks hamstring injuries and how to avoid them using preventative exercise.
