13 02, 2024

Season-ending Injuries on the World Cup are Alarming (and How to Prevent Them)

By | February 13th, 2024|Categories: Ski Racing, Sports|Tags: , |0 Comments

What do Mikaela Shiffrin, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Petra Vlhova, Alexis Pinturalt, Sofia Goggia, Corinne Sutter, Marco Schwartz, and several other World Cup ski racers have in common? They all sustained serious injuries that ended their seasons prematurely (except Mikaela who has missed several races so far due to a knee injury). As my title suggests, [...]

16 01, 2024

I Practice What I Preach: How to Deal with Minor Injuries

By | January 16th, 2024|Categories: Cycling, Ski Racing, Sports, Triathlon|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

An unfortunate reality of being a committed triathlete is that you will likely experience minor, yet nagging, injuries with some frequency during the course of  your triathlon career. You know what I’m talking about. Those little injuries that don’t involve serious physical trauma to muscles, tendons, or bones (usually just a pull rather than a [...]

30 01, 2021

Is Covid-19 Causing an Epidemic of Sports Injuries?

By | January 30th, 2021|Categories: Sports|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Is it just me or are other people seeing an increase in sports injuries since the Covid-19 epidemic struck a year ago? It seems as if, every week, there is more than one article in the sports media describing a heartbreaking announcement of another professional athlete whose season is shortened or ended by a serious [...]