Sports Injuries

Marielle Thompson, the reigning Olympic champion and number one ranked female ski cross athlete in the world, has suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate  ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) in training. Thompson was training in Saas Fee, Switzerland with Canada Ski Cross for a pre-season preparation camp when the fall took place. Thompson was doing a training run and overshot a jump, resulting in the crash. Thompson flew back to Canada for further assessment where an MRI was conducted at Canada Diagnostics in Vancouver to confirm the injury.  Full Article: https://alpinecanada.org/news/marielle-thompson-suffers-knee-injury-in-training

As winter comes up the NFL playoffs starts to get heated but the risks of playing in cold and sometimes frozen fields go unnoticed. Running and hitting each other is hard enough in an excellent weather can you imagine in a freezing cold day. Not to say the how slippery could it be the frozen grass and that is dangerous, as it becomes so easy to hurt our ankles or feet. Dr. Nakra wrote a nice article on Common Ankle & Foot injuries in the NFL   Take your time to check out her article about it. Cheers.... Let's Play and be safe...