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Dr. James Gladstone: "After Another Knee Injury, Duration of Recovery for Vonn Is Uncertain"

  • The New York Times
  • (November 20, 2013)

In February, days after she sustained the first major knee injury of her career, Lindsey Vonn vowed to return to ski racing in record time. To Vonn, rehabilitating her reconstructed right anterior cruciate ligament became another competition - and she sped past every milestone in her recovery. Told by doctors that a usual prognosis would have her on skis by November, Vonn was proud to be taking some runs on the slopes of Chile in early September. But Tuesday in Colorado, Vonn crashed in training, a tumble that partly tore the same knee ligament that she had repaired about nine months ago. James Gladstone, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Co-Chief of Sports Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, would also not give a definitive prognosis for Vonn's recovery, but he said in the best case, Vonn would be back on skis in two to four weeks. Learn more

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