Skiing is an injury-prone sport. Trust me, I’ve been the recipient of not one but two knee surgeries as the result of my love of powder, and working as a yoga teacher in a ski resort for 11 years, I’ve helped a lot of pro and amateur skiers rehab from skiing injuries.
Injuries are just part and parcel of skiing. A nine-year study of two California ski resorts published in the Western Journal of Medicine recorded a total of 24,340 injuries and 9,201,486 total lift tickets sold. That tallies up to an overall injury rate of 2.6 injuries per 1,000 skier days and researchers found that the injury rate increased slowly over the period studied. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that knee injuries were the most common, accounting for 35 percent of all injuries.
