Expert Insights on Performance & Recovery
Meniscus Tear or Anatomical Gray Hairs?
Picture this: You’ve only been skiing a handful of times. Your friend tells you that you’ll be fine skiing through the trees. The ski rental company didn’t adjust your bindings to a novice setting. Twenty minutes later, you’re stuck in a mogul with your leg twisted in a position you know isn’t right, and your ski, still attached to your foot, is pointing in an even scarier direction.
Somehow, you’re able to get up and ski down the mountain. But when you stand up in the gondola for the next run, you hear a pop in your knee. You make it through the rest of the day, but that night your knee is swollen. The next day, it hurts to walk and squat.
Welcome to the story of how I tore my meniscus.
How to Prevent an ACL Tear While Skiing: What the Research Actually Shows
Every ski season, we hear some version of the same story: "I don't know what happened, I wasn't even going that fast." And that's usually true, because the most common way recreational skiers tear their ACL has almost nothing to do with speed, jumps, or getting caught in a yard sale.
Here's what the research actually shows, and what to do about it.
Why Your Knees Hurt on Descents
You crush the climb. Lungs burning, legs on fire.
You summit, you soak in the views you worked so hard for, and you’re feeling good.
You turn around and start heading down. And by the time you're back at the trailhead, your knees are barking and talking with every step. Sound familiar?
What We Measure at Your Physical Therapy Evaluation (And Why It Matters)
"What did I get?"
That's usually the first question we get after dynamometry testing, like we just read their tea leaves and are about to compare it to their zodiac sign.
At Tundra Performance and Physical Therapy, when you come in for a physical therapy evaluation, sometimes a huge piece of our patient’s assessment comes from a single test: isometric dynamometer testing. Also seen in our return to play, running, and performance assessments.
Let's pull back the curtain a little bit and dive into what is dynamometry testing and why do the numbers matter?
What to Expect at Your First Physical Therapy Appointment | Denver PT
Wondering what happens at your first physical therapy visit? Here's exactly how a Denver sports PT evaluation works, what to bring, what to wear, and what happens next.
Training = Healthcare
Last December, I received a text from my friend Ashton, while he was attending the First Principles of Movement Summit at the EXOS training center in AZ telling me that there’s a course that I would love and I cannot miss it if I get a chance to take it.
The course Training = Healthcare.
Clinically, objectively, and philosophically, the course was a banger. These were my favorite takeaways from the course that we at Tundra Performance and Physical Therapy share and embody at our clinic.