by Jacob Urban | Apr 1, 2020 | Enhance Your Backcountry, JHOLI
I am not a doctor. I am a 31 year professional educator. For the last 25 years I have studied the body through the personal practice of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. During that time I was under the guidance of a host of different Medical Directors with a wide...
by Jacob Urban | Dec 1, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
Understanding What’s Under Our Skis & How to Manage the Risks Associated With It As hard as it may be to believe, ski season in the backcountry is not really here yet. What I mean, is while the snow is piling up in the backcountry the early season...
by Jacob Urban | Aug 19, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
There’s no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It’s experiencing the climb itself – in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue – that has to be the goal. Karyn Kusama My travel in the...
by Jacob Urban | Jul 15, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
Patient care techniques can have many different outcomes in regards to training, experience and applications used by the provider. In the wilderness environment this is seen during the transfer of care between, recreationalists to guides and guides to organized Search...
by Jacob Urban | Jun 25, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on that’s dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone. Jon Gruden You can wear one or not. Although the jury is in. Helmets help...
by Jacob Urban | Jun 25, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
When individuals with head injuries develop swelling on the brain ? it is referred to as intracranial pressure (ICP). ICP provides two life threatening problems. It reduces oxygen permeation to the cells of the brain and it inhibits the function of the brain...
