SnowBrains Podcast Ep. 66 | Dr. Kevin Stone – Physician & Orthopedic Surgeon Talks About How Skiers and Snowboarders Can Optimize Off-Season Training This episode of the SnowBrains podcast is brought to you by Club Med. Dr. Kevin Stone is back on the SnowBrains Podcast to discuss where the worlds of skiing and healthcare intersect. Dr. Kevin Stone is: a physician an orthopedic surgeon clinician researcher inventor founder of The Stone Clinic and the Stone Research Foundation based in San Francisco author of multiple […] Podcasts Podcast | September 3, 2024 2 Comments
Petra Vlhova Returns to On-Snow Training 7 Months After Knee Injury Ski racer Petra Vlhova has returned to on-snow training seven months after her horrific knee injury. The Slovakian tech specialist had skidded out mid-way on the course during the Giant Slalom in Jasna, Slovakia, in January 2024 and shot into the B-nets. Vlhova tore both her ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) and MCL (medial cruciate ligament) of her right knee in […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | August 29, 2024 0 Comments
Ski Star Announces Retirement After Lack of Support From Swedish Ski Association Swedish ski racer Lisa Hörnblad announced her retirement on her Instagram page on April 10, stating, “I can’t continue like it has been last season because it’s impossible to be competitive against the best in the world without support, coach, and team.” The 28-year-old ski racer admits that she is sad to announce that she is quitting but feels that […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | April 14, 2024 0 Comments
Casey Kelly Making an Instant Impact for Ole Miss Football After Recovering From Ski Injury The University of Mississippi, or Ole Miss, is one of the premier schools in the nation for college football. Led and coached by Lane Kiffin, the Ole Miss Rebels are currently ranked twelfth in the country and have a star-studded roster. Of their many stars, Casey Kelly is a name that is beginning to ring bells after a series of […] Crash Jesse | October 22, 2021 0 Comments
The SnowBrains Podcast – Episode #3 – Everything You Need To Know About ACL Injury, Surgery, & Recovery The SnowBrains Podcast is brought to you by Alta Ski Area Last month we proudly announced the launch of “The SnowBrains Podcast“. This week, we bring you episode #3 of The SnowBrains Podcast with the orthopedic surgeon Dr. William Montgomery M.D.: “Everything You Need To Know About ACL Injury, Surgery, & Recovery” Dr. Montgomery has reconstructed over 1,000 ACL’s in his […] Podcasts SnowBrains | November 4, 2020 2 Comments
VIDEO: Zac Efron Blows Out ACL While ‘Shredding the Gnar’ in Utah Backcountry [arve url="https://youtu.be/AiPXZXd-Hf0"] SnowBrains | April 17, 2019 202 Likes 2 Tweets 0 Comments
How to Cope with Injury I’ve always been jealous of people who love sports that aren’t dependent on season. Baseball, for example, might have a season, but enthusiasts can still throw a ball around in the winter. Snowboarding and skiing are over once the snow is. It is precious. And it is a burden. My life during the snowboarding season is different to my life […] Helena Guglielmino | September 27, 2017 1 Comment
Doctors Experiment With Alternative Torn A.C.L. Solutions In the active sports world that we live in, injuries are common: unfortunately one of those most common injuries is a torn ACL. As it stands the traditional way of repairing the Anterior Cruciate Ligament is through grafting a piece of ligament from either the hamstring or the patella. This technique is generally fairly successful, but after looking at […] Keenan Grady | March 28, 2016 1 Comment
Stem Cells to Replace Surgery for ACL Tears: In the past 6 months or so I have heard allot about the newly emerging method for ACL repairs that involves no traditional orthopedic surgery and thus makes for a faster and easier recovery as well as a stronger more durable repair. Being that I am a 70 day plus a year skier, hockey player, mountain biker, skateboarder etc, I have seen and heard […] Industry News Ryan Mulcahy | June 11, 2014 1 Comment
1/4 of Ski ACL Tears Don’t Need Surgery This is welcome news for skiers: up to a quarter of skiers with ACL tears can skip surgery. Doctors have developed a set of tests that examine a knee 6-12 weeks after the tear. The test sound quite simple (if not painless), all that is involved is physical manipulation of the knee by a doctor. In around 1/4 of all cases the tear can heal […] SnowBrains | March 28, 2014 0 Comments
Can Lindsey Vonn Win Gold on a Torn ACL? We all know how Lindsey Vonn tore her ACL last year in Austria. She then torn her reconstructed ACL this December training in Colorado. Even with this torn ACL Lindsey got 5th place in the Super-G at Lake Louise on December 8th, 2013. But the questions remain: Can she win on that torn ACL? Can she compete at a high level in the Olympics on that torn ACL? Lindsey doesn’t have enough time before the Olympics for another surgery so she’ll be skiing on what she’s got. […] Olympics SnowBrains | December 17, 2013 0 Comments
Lindsey Vonn Injury Update: Partially Torn ACL… Lindsey Vonn partial tore her ACL in her right knee in a her crash while ski race training at Copper Mountain, CO yesterday. She also suffered a mild strain in her right knee, minor facial abrasions, and a bruised shoulder blade in yesterday’s crash. Lindsey tore her ACL and MCL in that same right knee in her vicious crash in Austria last February 5th, 2012. “Lindsey will pursue aggressive physical therapy and will determine the next time she is able to compete after seeing how she responds to the treatment.” – Lewis Kay, Lindsey Vonn’s publicist […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 20, 2013 6 Comments
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