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How to prevent long term knee injuries

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Timby
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i have bad knees due to genetics and baseball when i was younger. i want to ski for as long as i can but i am concerned about wear-related injuries on the knees. obviously short term injuries can be prevented with a proper din setting and such, but is there any way to prevent long term ones? thanks for any input or advice.
Apr 6 2022 12:42PM
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Jems
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don’t ski
Apr 6 2022 12:43PM
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Jems
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OR work out the muscles that stabilize your knees
Apr 6 2022 12:44PM
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crimeenthusiast
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id would suggest looking into stretching and doing exercises to strengthen the muscles around your knees.
Apr 6 2022 12:44PM
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saucemastrscotty
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Timbyi have bad knees due to genetics and baseball when i was younger. i want to ski for as long as i can but i am concerned about wear-related injuries on the knees. obviously short term injuries can be prevented with a proper din setting and such, but is there any way to prevent long term ones? thanks for any input or advice.

Hit the gym, strengthen the muscles that support ur knees. Makes a huge difference in both preventing injuries and improving ur skiing
Apr 6 2022 1:09PM
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dans12
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dont pizza
Apr 6 2022 1:17PM
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Quaggy
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This guy on Instagram
Lifted and played sports all my life, these techniques have negated a lot of issues I encountered with my knees... from weird popping to just random ass buckling while walking.
He did a full 3 hours on Joe Rogan if that's your thing, it was super interesting.
There's strength in flexibility
Apr 6 2022 1:20PM
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Cyanicenine
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The kneesovertoesguy is legit, I bought his book off amazon and have been doing the exercises since October. My knees have never felt better. A huge benefit to the program for skiing is doing all the tibialis exercises. Anytime you land back seat, get thrown weird slamming into a bump or ditch, you use your tibialis muscles. I think if you train your tibialis enough you would probably never get shinbang again. It's an incredibly useful muscle to train for skiing.
Apr 6 2022 5:10PM
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theabortionator
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Have health insurance
Apr 6 2022 6:14PM
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BigPurpleSkiSuit
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This. Start doing a strength routine at the gym. Do squats with very very light weight at first then increasing. This will make you stronger around your knee and help it.
JemsOR work out the muscles that stabilize your knees
Apr 6 2022 6:43PM
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freestyler540
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Learn to ski up hill?
Apr 6 2022 10:28PM
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Proboscis
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Switch to snowboarding
Apr 7 2022 12:49AM
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ThaLorax
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Fix your alignment/pronation
Apr 8 2022 11:15PM
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SofaKingSick
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Get good

don't fall
Apr 8 2022 11:19PM
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twinkle_toes
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Doesn’t skierPT have a channel ?
Apr 9 2022 2:18AM
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jakeordie
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I don't think of it as preventing knee injuries, more what can I do to stack the odds in my favour;

- skinnier skis (waist and tips & tails)
- bindings with less elasticity (e.g. Tyrolias not Pivots)
- find a real good bootfitter
Apr 9 2022 4:01AM
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