Adapting to Skiing With Spinal Cord Injuries

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Schoeneck and in this clip I'm going to discuss the different levels of spinal cord injuries and how you can adapt to skiing. We have individuals where we have different sleds where they have outriggers where they literally can just throw their upper body weight or arms and make a turn. And then the, the, the injuries they are a little, little bit lower, where they don't have much abdominal muscles but they do have upper body muscle, then they can use different mono skis without outriggers and they have, without fixed outriggers, excuse me, and then they have outriggers on the end of ski poles and that enable them to initiate turns as they go down the mountain, keep their shoulders square down the fall line and get the ski to get on edge and the tail to slide out. And that controls their speed and in turn, they're arcing the ski and skiing as an able bodied person does. Then we have individuals that have injuries that are lower and they have abdominal muscles, and they're, they have much more ability to really reach out and hold turns longer, and they're not as confined as to a higher injury."