A very warm welcome to the all-new www.ski-injury.com!
This evidence-based website celebrates its 10th year of operation in 2008 and is marking the occasion with a new design and server. Uniquely dedicated to the latest and most comprehensive information on alpine snow sports injuries and their prevention, the aim is to present the latest information in a language that hopefully most people can understand. Written and maintained by Dr Mike Langran from Scotland, this is an independent website that receives no direct incentives from the snow sport industry. It is updated regularly - usually weekly during the northern hemisphere winter. Choose your topic(s) from the links on the left and contact me if you can't find the information you are looking for.
Dr Mike Langran
Mike is the ski patrol doctor at CairnGorm Mountain in the Scottish Highlands & a GP (family doctor) at the Aviemore Medical Practice - the only general practice in the UK that treats significant numbers of acute snow sports injuries. Mike is also Director of the Scottish Snow Sports Safety Study, UK secretary of SITEMSH (International Society for Skiing Traumatology and Winter Sports Medicine) as well as both Board member and UK National Secretary of the International Society for Skiing Safety (ISSS). The next meeting of the ISSS will be in Garmisch-Partenkirschen at the end of April 2009. Click here for the conference website.
Lecture and Research Presentations
As well as numerous invited lectures and research presentations both in the UK and abroad, Mike has published and contributed to many articles on snow sports safety in the medical and lay press - including The Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal and more. He has also appeared on the BBC, ITV and has been a reluctant star in the Grampian Television fly-on-the-wall series "Medics of the Glen" in his role as a ski patrol doctor. As a result of his research, publications and this website, Mike is regarded by his peers as the UK's leading expert in the field of snow sports safety.
Evidence Based Medicine on the slopes!
This web site now contains over 50 pages of detailed information on a whole host of topics relating to snow sports injuries and snow sports safety. As much as possible, the information is based on sound scientific fact rather than hearsay or gossip. In my life as a doctor, I have done a lot of work in the field of evidence based medicine. In addition, being active in the research field myself helps me to sort the wood from the trees when it comes to fact and fiction! If there is anything that you read on the pages of this site that either doesn't make sense to you or that you disagree with, then please use the contact page to get in touch with me.
