In this lecture, Milen Golchev delivers a practical, image-driven overview of injuries in alpine and board-based water sports, emphasizing how mechanisms and equipment shape typical trauma patterns. You’ll learn a pattern-recognition approach to common and clinically important findings—from skier’s thumb (UCL injury) and shoulder instability/AC-joint injuries to knee ligament/meniscal trauma and foot/ankle injuries where subtle fractures may be missed on radiographs. The session also highlights smart modality selection (X-ray, CT, or MRI) and reporting tips that help translate imaging into clear, actionable guidance for acute care and return-to-sport decisions.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lecture, learners will be able to:

• Relate injury patterns to mechanism and sport-specific equipment, using this information to narrow the differential diagnosis in alpine and water-sport trauma.
• Recognize and describe the key imaging findings of high-yield injuries (e.g., skier’s thumb/UCL injury, shoulder instability/AC-joint injury, ACL/meniscus trauma, and common foot/ankle injury patterns).
• Choose the appropriate imaging modality and next step (X-ray, CT, MRI) for suspected fractures and soft-tissue injuries, and produce report-ready, management-relevant conclusions (instability, displacement, associated injuries, and red flags).