How long can you ski after a hemontoma?

Question

i want to ski but i dont know when. give me dates like days,weeks, months, years. please tell me.

Answer 1

It really depends on where it is and how severe it is. Ask your medical provider for a release date.  Some lower body injuries of this type are for a week or so, others are so severe, you could loose the whole season. Only your doctor knows.

Answer 2

Do you mean hematoma?

If you're just using that as a fancy word for bruise you could go any time.  I went snowboarding last week with a gigantic bruise on my thigh.  I just took it a bit easy since it was stiff.

If it's something in your organs then you might want to talk to your doctor or some medical professional.

Answer 3

A hematoma is slightly different than a bruise.  A bruise (or "contusion") results from broken small blood vessels (usually the tiny vessels called capillaries).  A hematoma is a little more than that; it is an extravasation of blood into the surrounding tissues (did you get all that?).  Meaning a small pocket of blood forms from blood leakage into the soft tissues surrounding the blood vessel.  They are sometimes called "goose-eggs."  They will resolve with time, just like bruises will.  The body will resorb (reabsorb) the escaped blood.

You can ski with a hematoma.  There is not necessarily a reason to stop skiing unless it hurts or you are re-traumatizing the area.

If the source of trauma is your ski boots or something like that, and skiing makes it worse, then you probably will need to sit it out for maybe several days to a week.  If the hematoma is somewhere else (like you landed on your butt hard), you can go skiing as soon as it doesn't bother you too much to ski.  (and that can be the same day).

Ice is good on these at first, but after that warmth is helpful (warm baths, hot water bottles, etc).  Once, I had a hematoma on the inner aspect of my elbow from a young student trying to learn how to do a blood draw.  What helped me was to keep a compression bandage ("Ace Wrap") on it.

By the way, I hope you are not talking about an intracranial hematoma, such as a sub-dural hematoma (a pocket of blood that forms outside the brain under the dura-covering).  In that case, you would need medical clearance to resume skiing.

Answer 4

bruises are part of skiing/snowboarding and you just have to work through them.