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Really don't intend to be a downer for Neil by urging him to be cautious, but this just reminds me of something that happened to me in 2013 and I'd hate him to make the same mistake. Of course, he could totally style it out and have no problems though.
I had a nasty but ultimately not too worrying crash in a half pipe at the olympic park in Calgary. During the crash one of my skis came off, helicoptered round, and smacked me right on my patellar. It swelled up a bit and motion was affected but I skied on for another week.
Got home, carried on running and cycling and felt like there was a tiny niggle there. Nothing notable, just a sensation that something was "off". Three weeks after the crash, my knee just had a meltdown and that was me in physio for six months, working out the muscle imbalances I had built from running and skiing on when I had a knee that was inflamed and telling me to stop. It probably took me a year to get back to full fitness in total.
And that was nearly ten years ago, when I was closter to 30 than 40.