Today's podcast addresses the still highly relevant issue of what happened to ski injuries when the Alpine boot standard was first adopted, in 1978, through 2000, when it achieved total compatibility with all Alpine bindings. Now that we’ve once again muddied these waters, the mid-shaft tibia fracture is back, an injury that we had reduced from a potential high-water mark of 60,000 tibia fractures a year to 2,000, a 97% reduction in a serious injury, saving American skiers an estimated $600 million a year in medical costs and at least that much in non-medical costs, not to mention the agonies of breaking one’s leg.