Cranking my pole too hard

That's right, I skied for the first time this season last weekend, and I guess I planted my poles a little too enthusiastically...

The result: A sore and swollen right forearm, right behind the wrist. I've never dealt with this before, so I did some googlefu and discovered that it is probably called intersection syndrome.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8129100/

"According to the mountain guides employed by the helicopter service, this overuse injury is quite common and does not represent an unusual incidence for this group of skiers. The mechanism of injury is likely repetitive dorsiflexion and radial deviation of the wrist against the resistance of deep snow on withdrawal of the planted ski pole."

9 days later and the soreness and swelling have reduced to just annoying--trying to take it easy with those movements. My sports med friend gave me some dorsiflexion exercises to do to strengthen those muscles.

Kind of silly, but sharing my discovery so others may learn about the peril of cranking your pole too hard.

Feel free to share your own stories and experiences :FM:

Intersectionality from furious pole cranking

Got it. Well no. I don’t have it. Yet. But I understand the jismist of what you’re saying

Strengthening the muscles is exactly what you don't need. Aggressive poling in 3d snow has been out of fashion for about 30 years. At least.

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Originally Posted by old goat

Strengthening the muscles is exactly what you don't need. Aggressive poling in 3d snow has been out of fashion for about 30 years. At least.

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You are probably on to something regarding technique vs. strength, but I think it has more to do with me dragging the pole at some point in the swing.

My poles are probably too long. As my skiing has progressed my stance has become lower, but my poles haven't gotten shorter. I was thinking about it last weekend, feeling like I could go down a couple cm.

If it’s not bilateral what is it?

My guess is cell phone arm if you are right hand dominant.
(Yes. That is a thing. And more likely than skiing pole plants)

Or. Pole cranking arm. If you are right hand dominant.
So ease up on the cranking. Or try the stranger.

we used to tell this guy to pretend it was his ex-wifes head on the top of the next mogul ( bad settlement eh ) in an effort to promote the active poleplanting/ not being in the back seat but really you wana just touch that snow surface gently

^quite the contradicting statement to tell the guy...geezus. Obviously the 2nd part is correct.

we werent trying for lessons Gary stood up straight as a fence post with never used poles in both arms behind him so any pole use at all was better