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 1 Comment
VIDEO: Zac Efron Blows Out ACL While ‘Shredding the Gnar’ in Utah Backcountry 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
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