Which injury is worst for a freestyle skier?

CRENSZN

CRENSZN

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Which injury would be worst to occur for a freestyle skiers career?

Severe knee injury (Example: Torn ACL, or Meniscus)

OR

Severe spine injury (Example: Fractured vertebrate, Fracture spinal cord)

 
the answer is both. i once toar almost every muscle in my lower back/ hip. it was just after ski season though, so i was back in time for snow
 
this.

Pretty much anything that isn't arms is vital to skiing. Even an arm in a sling fucks up rotation.
 
The question is kinda ridiculous, because in terms of only skiing, a sprained knee is as bad as a broken spinal cord. They equally both make it so you can't ski, but they're really not comparable injuries.
 
i think a broken foot might actually be worse because it would be such a bitch to have a broken foot but idk this is an odd thread
 
you can live without knees.
you can live with a severed spinal cord
you cannot live without a brain.
 
I'm referring more to the long term effects. Say for example a professional or amateur skier suffer one of two injuries I stated above, which would affect his/hers ski career the most?
 
how about becoming sterile on a rail? that would keep you out for a while and it'd be the most painful...
 
I ask this question because I fractured two of my spinal cord vertebrates this past summer on the whistler glacier. Wondering what everyone thought of the severity of the injury. I've been doing physiotherapy, and its slightly healed from the original status. Although it is still very painful with any physical activity, I'm scared to go skiing, because I don't want to accept the fact that I'm essentially done progressing my freestyle skiing. I consider it the worst injury a freestyle skier can suffer.
 
death and then your soul is destroyed by terrorists/hitler so that you may never ski in whatever afterlife you believe in.

 
the main issue i see with vertebra fractures is when the its an anterior fracture (towards ur back) the actual broken off bone can put pressure on the cord and paralize the person with in quadriplegia or paraplegia. however if you have been doing physio, im assuming you are not one of these cases.
double check with ur doctor but you should be more or less ok.
 
my recommendation would be continue with physio and ask ur doctor if there is a chance that the vertebra fragments will fuse back with the actual whole vertebra.
where did u break it? L1? T1?
i know someone who did the same thing skateboarding years ago...then saw them again when they joined my kickboxing gym...he seems fine as he has been doing full contact kickboxing and jui jitsu for a few years now.
 
spinal injuries definitely have the potential to be comletely catastrophic. as in complete paralyzation, or death. your knees can be rebuilt and rehabbed, but your spinal chord cannot (barring advancements with stem cell research).
 
breaking your nails. you cant put on gloves which sucks the worst and people always comment on how your nails look like shit.
 
Lets see here, worst case scenario. Your knee is so fucked up you cant walk on it. Your paralyzed for life from the neck down.
After experiencing a back injury myself its def spinal. Take so long to heal, and unlike acl surgery which you can rehab your knee back to 100%, back injuries can be very unpredictable.
 
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