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What's the worst sporting injury you've ever had?

[toPh][toPh] Posts: 244
Not just triathlon based, any sport?

Pictures optional.

My most recent was mountain biking last year - Broken hand.

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  • md6md6 Posts: 969
    That is hardcore! ouch! I managed to tear all the ligaments in my ankle when i was about 13, playing basketball, it was about the size of a football and was completely black from toes to almost half way up my shin.

    it was nothing compared to that picture though
  • gavinrigg06gavinrigg06 Posts: 176
    I smashed my collar bone, when I used to play Ice Hockey, my right shoulder is now an inch shorter than my left !!
  • tore the ACL in my left leg playing football, dislocated shoulder bmx-ing, all the ligaments in both ankles playing football(different ankles at different times), injured ligaments in right knee playing football. needless to say i gave up football!

    my favourite injury is a massive 4 inch by 4 inch gouge in my left leg inner thigh though which went all the way to the thigh bone, luckily it didnt get any veins. in fact there was surprisingly little blood. had 10 internal stitches and 20 external to repair that. and how did i get that? playing kiss and catches as a kid!
  • md6md6 Posts: 969
    and the important question is - were you chaser or chasee?
  • gdh250467gdh250467 Posts: 237
    . . . or what / who were you chasing / being chased by?

    I dislocated both my knees surfing one day, edge dug in and flipped the board into them. Made for a difficult swim back to shore. It was winter, so the cold seemed to deaden the pain, and then a rigue wave too the board and extended the leash to it's full extent which popped one back into place. Some dude on the ebach then popped the other one back into palce for me. Never did thank him properly. Awful drive home though, learnt my lesson, and never surfed alone again
  • kiss and catches? did she like it rough eh?

    ripped a neck muscle at judo. Walked into the doctors with my head resting on my shoulder and whole body twitching in pain

    "is it an emergancy?"

    ....


    they gave me vallium for it
  • JessterJesster Posts: 482
    Shattered my kneecap on ice attempting a tail grab off a kicker with my snowboard. Picked myself up despite searing pain and went and attempted it again. Landed it (sweet!) and promptly collapsed in a heap.

    Surfing a point break in Morocco, got blown in too deep by a cross shore wind and took off on reef (!?)tried to pull out but couldnt and got sucked around the reef and pulled back under, shredded my feet and hands. blood everywhere, glad there were no sharks!! Oh, and tore a hole in my breast from the puppies being squashed in my wetsuit plus lots of paddling. turned in to a sea ulcer because i refused to stay out of the water, now looks like a bullet hole scar. nice!
  • shadowone1shadowone1 Posts: 1,408
    by comanighttrain » 02 Jul 2009 10:53

    kiss and catches? did she like it rough eh?

    Coma,

    Love your sense of humour........
  • Surfing a point break in Morocco, got blown in too deep by a cross shore wind and took off on reef (!?)tried to pull out but couldnt and got sucked around the reef and pulled back under, shredded my feet and hands. blood everywhere, glad there were no sharks!! Oh, and tore a hole in my breast from the puppies being squashed in my wetsuit plus lots of paddling. turned in to a sea ulcer because i refused to stay out of the water, now looks like a bullet hole scar. nice!
    I've surfed Morocco a few years ago, while out there a friend had a bad day after messing up rock hop entry, the idea is to allow the wave to wash in over the reef, hop on top of it, then get sucked back out .. he paused a bit too long then jumped onto exposed reef, then got hammered by the next wave. Then he had a bad session with many a bodged take-off .. then gave up and headed in .. on his way in a fish jumped up and slapped him in the face .. the last i saw was him paddling in with one arm and waving his fist at mother nature with the other !!
    I've had a few ankle tweaks on the sakteboard, haven't ridden one for many years now .. but my ankle still plays up after a big training session. Also recurring pain from a sprained shoulder from too many snowboard stacks to mention.
    Nothing serious yet ..
  • Jack HughesJack Hughes Posts: 1,262
    The worst one? Easy. Though so undramatic compared to yours.

    It's this one. Seems really trivial, but it has been quite life changing - in my attitudes to my body, training and view of sporting injuries.

    I first started getting little twinges in the knee at the back end of last year - but only after about 8 miles of running. Not enough to take notice of. It's now the first of July, and I sit here, my bandaged leg in elevation, still shaking off the effects of the general anaesthetic. My season is really over before it has began. All I can do is take some general steps at rehabilitation and strength building, with the goals that I had for this year put back to the next.

    In January, in a 5K road race, the knee went for the first time, sore and swollen, I eased of training straight away. But still did an XC race the following weekend, the first of february. I've not really run since - except for a 4mile easy run in March, a 10K road race (mistake!) on March 29th, and a 5K LT run on 11th April.

    Through Feb and March I had physio - and tried to do everything right. But to no avail. The impact of what happened on the 11th was quite alarming - the leg immovable for a few days due to the swelling. I've not had a solid night of sleep since - with the leg hurting whenever I turn over and it get's caught in the bedclothes.

    Went to the GP and got a referral to a sports specialist. The only problem I have was the length of time involved - this was partly my fault as work kept me from going sooner - but really, only a week or two would have been saved. The diagnosis - you'll never be able to run again, unless you have an operation. Hmm.

    So, after the arthroscopy yesterday, the diagnosis was confirmed. The meniscus was kind of folded over and all torn. Relatively easy to reshape and tidy up. And the prognosis should be good.

    What has changed?

    I now think that training is more important than racing. And I think of it more as preparation, rather than training.
    I now think that technique, together with an holistic approach to the body is more important than going for a few runs at LT pace, or whatever.
    I now have training goals, rather than racing ones, and health figures quite highly in those goals.

    Before this year, I might have thought that, say, Nadal missing Wimbledon would have somehow devalued the status of whoever wins it this year. Now I don't. Getting yourself in to a fit shape to contend the championship is as important an aspect of any other parts of your performance.

    As I said, nothing dramatic - I'm not really sure why the injury occurred - a combination of poor techinque, doing too much, being too old, and not having developed other physiological attributes that might have reduced the amount of wear/tear on the knee - i.e. a "simple" overuse injury.

    But, it means that I've lost 12 months.
  • jonEjonE Posts: 1,113
    Usually my Pride on a regular basis.
  • Jack HughesJack Hughes Posts: 1,262
    jon.E wrote:
    Usually my Pride on a regular basis.
    You win!
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 335
    head injury - horse went home and husband thought that's odd no rider :roll:found unconscious but as husband a Dr didn't feel the need to hospitalise me as speaking but making little sense- no change there then- until a friend who does neuro enquired about what my CT scan looked like- Long term damage memory loss and an inability to remember nouns when tired - i.e can you get the iron out of the fridge!!!

    and another horse one
    sprng pelvis, slipped IS joint, torn meniscus L knee, partial rupture L achilles, fractured ribs - had to walk off the mountain for that one everyone more concerend that daughter was with me she reassured everyone that it couldn't have been too serious due to the language - me swear surely not
  • [toPh][toPh] Posts: 244
    And my worst one was an abseiling accident.

    Fell from the top of an artificual climbing tower as my rope wasn't anchored properly.

    Broken back in 2 places, L1 & T12. Broken left tibia, broken right tibia and fibia and compression fracture to ankle. Broken right wrist.

    Got those pictures somewhere...
  • nivaghnivagh Posts: 595
    have you been injured in a slip or trip or fall that wasn't your fault...?

    Call Ambulancechasersrus and we'll laugh with you all the way to the bank
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