climbingbetty
Angel Diva
I am having some really bad knee pain after instructing. It only occurs after lessons where I'm teaching/demoing wedge skiing for beginners.
It's very sharp, distracting pain inside the right knee joint and I can walk normally, it's just painful. In general it doesn't bother me after days of skiing in "normal" parallel technique- only on days I'm teaching where I'm often in a wedge- though it has started to get more achey after skiing normally in the last two weeks.
I come home from a day of ski teaching and it's very achey and sore and I'm limping on it trying to get relief. By the next day I wake up and its fine. No pain, walking normally again.
Because of that last detail, I don't think I've torn the meniscus or ACL. But I'm also not sure what would cause such bad pain from skiing in a wedge that would simply be healed by the next day.
I'm also wondering if this is indicative that I'm doing something 'wrong' in my wedge demos that might be worsening the issue.
I've also noticed that the problem is MUCH worse if I teach in a pair of stiffer skis...
Thoughts? I'm really curious to hear what other instructors might have to say or have experience with....
I like instructing and I'd really like to keep doing it... but if I can't get to the bottom of this, I might have to sacrifice it in order to be able to ski for the foreseeable future.
TIA
It's very sharp, distracting pain inside the right knee joint and I can walk normally, it's just painful. In general it doesn't bother me after days of skiing in "normal" parallel technique- only on days I'm teaching where I'm often in a wedge- though it has started to get more achey after skiing normally in the last two weeks.
I come home from a day of ski teaching and it's very achey and sore and I'm limping on it trying to get relief. By the next day I wake up and its fine. No pain, walking normally again.
Because of that last detail, I don't think I've torn the meniscus or ACL. But I'm also not sure what would cause such bad pain from skiing in a wedge that would simply be healed by the next day.
I'm also wondering if this is indicative that I'm doing something 'wrong' in my wedge demos that might be worsening the issue.
I've also noticed that the problem is MUCH worse if I teach in a pair of stiffer skis...
Thoughts? I'm really curious to hear what other instructors might have to say or have experience with....
I like instructing and I'd really like to keep doing it... but if I can't get to the bottom of this, I might have to sacrifice it in order to be able to ski for the foreseeable future.
TIA
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