Luscious Links: Knees, Yoga and Dementia, and Lindsey Vonn

April 12th, 2012 • BY Erinn Morgan

The Bees Knees: Our favorite links from the web this week include a Reuters report on a new study that found women are twice as likely to injure the knee of the non-dominant leg while skiing. This finding sheds new light on previous studies that found that women are much more likely than men to injure a knee while skiing. Gerhard Ruedl, lead author of the new study from the University of Innsbruck in Austria, said he was interested in looking at whether women’s knee troubles had to do with leg dominance. And it did. A whopping 91 percent of the women studies were right-leg dominant but twice as many injured their left ACL as their right. Food for thought for when you’re gearing up for next ski season. Ruedl recommends strength and balance training on the non-dominant leg to reduce differences between the legs and ward off injuries.

Lindsey’s Nuptial Crumble: While the year’s lackluster ski season is all but officially over, the skiing news continues. An article in The New York Times this week shone a light on champ skier Lindsey Vonn’s messy divorce dividing the Vonn’s millions while it also highlighted her newfound sense of self. Vonn’s former husband had been her ski coach and trainer for years. “I realized for the first time in my life I was skiing for myself,” she said in the article. “I had always had a lot of people helping me — my dad when I was younger, then Thomas, and my sponsors. And sometimes, I think I skied for those other people. This year, I realized that I’m the only one in the start gate and I’m the only one deciding what line to ski and how fast. That was really empowering. It was kind of like being a kid again, skiing for yourself and having fun with it.”

Yoga for Caregivers: Today, over 5 million Americans care for someone with Alzheimer’s and a new study shows that those people could greatly reduce their stress with yoga. An article on PsychCentral.com covers a new UCLA study that found that when caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s used yoga to engage in very brief, easy daily meditations, they lowered their levels of depression, improved cognitive functioning, and reduced stress-induced cellular aging. Pretty powerful stuff. As the Baby Boomers move into the golden years, it is anticipated that the number of people suffering from Alzheimer’s will greatly increase—as will the number of those caring for them.

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About Erinn Morgan

After a 10-year career as an award-winning New York City-based editor launching and redesigning urban, style-driven magazines, Erinn Morgan left her downtown Manhattan digs after September 11th, 2001, in search of a less encumbered, freelance lifestyle. A life-changing, two-year-long trek around the country in a motorhome eventually landed her in Durango, Colo., which she now calls home. Her writing has appeared in numerous— More about this author →