noobSkier wrote:Thanks AnI, I went skiing yesterday and I took it easy...that definitely helped. I have another question though; the more you tip "out" your boots, do you not lose LTE tipping range to some extent? I've found that the more I tipped out my boots, the more I had to adjust the cuff inwards to keep my shin in the middle of the cuff. When I just kept the cuff at neutral & tipped out, I found it difficult to get leverage on the boot with foot eversion. It wasn't particularly noticeable for edge-locked carving, but seemed to make a huge difference in the short-turns.
Ken wrote:noob, have you been to a saw bones? Xrays or MRI of that knee will probably show what's up. Age and related wear & tear take their toll. Once you know what's happening, you can try for relief. My left knee was the good one, until...one very easy day of skiing & coaching a friend, we sat down to lunch, and at the end of lunch my left knee did not want to straighten. Pain. I got it straight and continued easy skiing that day. That evening I could not walk up one stair on that leg. Xray showed nothing out of place. MRI showed a deteriorated meniscus. Not a tear, and nothing to fix. The surgeon said, "there's nothing we can't make worse with surgery." A cortisone shot in that knee has worked very well since then. There are other remedies for other maladies. See the doc.
noobSkier wrote:I've found that the more I tipped out my boots, the more I had to adjust the cuff inwards to keep my shin in the middle of the cuff.
noobSkier wrote:Ken wrote:noob, have you been to a saw bones? Xrays or MRI of that knee will probably show what's up. Age and related wear & tear take their toll. Once you know what's happening, you can try for relief. My left knee was the good one, until...one very easy day of skiing & coaching a friend, we sat down to lunch, and at the end of lunch my left knee did not want to straighten. Pain. I got it straight and continued easy skiing that day. That evening I could not walk up one stair on that leg. Xray showed nothing out of place. MRI showed a deteriorated meniscus. Not a tear, and nothing to fix. The surgeon said, "there's nothing we can't make worse with surgery." A cortisone shot in that knee has worked very well since then. There are other remedies for other maladies. See the doc.
Ok so this is pretty interesting. When I was competing in other sports I would always deal with nagging injuries with The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Clair Davies. For some reason this time I had just accepted that I'm going to have a bum knee. Turns out, after referencing this book, I have a severe trigger point in the upper sartorius muscle which was shooting pain to the inner knee. After working on the trigger point for 1 day, the pain completely disappeared. Highly recommend this book.
mardale wrote:You may be going about it the wrong way, mate. The way I understand this process is that you first align the cuff so the cuff follows the leg with no canting, and then you tip the skis in our out, as needed, by canting the sole, without touching the cuff alignment anymore - unless maybe you have weird tibias and you know what you're doing (like after learning the alignment manual inside-out).
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