Mills, who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident in 1993, broke her right shoulder blade in several places after falling on the slopes during training with the British disabled ski team in the Austrian Alps.

She was flown to a nearby hospital in Lienz and allowed to return to her home in Brighton after doctors ruled "no surgery was necessary."

But she is still set to miss up to eight weeks training.

Mills has thanked experts for the "care and assistance" she received in Austria.

"I crashed against a plastic pole," she said.

"Normally it would not have mattered, but due to the extreme cold, it had turned hard as steel.

"That's skiing, you know.

"I'm tough, it will take a lot to knock me back.

"The care and assistance of the Austrian community was incredible and something I will never forget."

Earlier this year Mills injured her knee in a charity ski event.

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