Word: orthopedist
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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From a strictly medical standpoint, skiing makes no sense. "The odds are not with the participant at all," says Orthopedist James Garrick, head of the University of Washington's division of sports medicine. Dr. Garrick is so concerned that he is participating in a conference on ski injuries to be held this week in Aspen, Colo. The agenda includes such abstruse topics as "Rotational Instability and Its Repair" and "The Biomechanics of Tibial Fractures in Skiing...
...shop at Vail, Colo. Bending over to adjust the bindings on her rented skis, she ruptured her Achilles tendon and wound up in a cast for two months. Another girl suffered from annoying numbness in her legs whenever she skied. Dr. Arthur Ellison, a Williamstown, Mass., skier-orthopedist who runs a clinic at Vermont's Haystack Mountain, found that her tight ski pants were pressing on her leg nerves. He cured her "stretch-pants palsy" by making her wear a larger size...
...often good treatment stops at the bottom of a run, and injured skiers must either gamble on local physicians or limp to a distant city hospital. A Manhattan woman nearly lost the use of one leg after a Vermont hospital botched a simple break. A New York orthopedist later saved the leg with a complex operation, but only this month has the woman been able to board skis again-ten years later...