The sports and general injury thread...

[Maawdawg]

When I saw Mattpfeil's "this really happened" thread it made me think of all the weird injuries I have had over the course of my life so I figured I would start a thread where people could exchange stories of the like and see who has had some of the best (or worst) injuries.

I might as well start with one from me, I have a bunch. I am not really "injury prone" but I seem to get myself into a lot of situations that could get me hurt or a lot of dumb/risky situations. Plus I have had a mess of sports injuries.

A group of friends and I were at a family cottage drinking, grilling, and the usual nonsense going on. We decided to take the canoes and coolers across the lake, maybe a mile, to an old boyscout camp that had a big rope swing set up. We got over there, had a couple more beverages and started using the swing.

As time went on we decided the sing wasn't high enough from the water (maybe 15') so we started tying higher knots in the rope and starting higher up on the launching hill. This worked for a while until we tied a knot once and didn't pull it snug. I backed up the launch hill to the point where I was about as high as the tree branch we were swinging from and jumped down.

When I did the newly tied knot slid down and got smaller, making me losing my grip and causing me to fall. Unfortunately I wasn't quite to the water yet and hit the gravel embankment. Luckily I landed on my hip and legs so the first hit wasnt so bad. The bad part was I hit so hard I bounced and did a forward roll down the gravel down hill. In the air, on the bounce I hit a stump shoulder first then completed my flip by going over it. I then slid on gravel on my back down into the drop off to the water at high speed.

I ended up with a dislocated shoulder and "road rash" from the point of my shoulder all the way down the left side of my back. The worst part was I had to swim to shore with a busted shoulder, then help paddle back to the cottage with it as well.

When I went back about a month later to use the swing again someone had cut the tree down. :(

At some point if this thread gets going I will post the whole list of just my broken bones. It is quite a compilation.

[Magnum]

The only bone I've ever broken was my collar bone, right shoulder. Brother broke it.

I did see someone nearly get their hand taken off by a wood planer. Not the small ones in a personal shop mind you. It was a big industrial one at a cabinet door making factory I worked at once. First time I ever saw a thumb just hanging off someone's hand like that...*shiver*

[Redenbacher09]

Well, I've not broken a bone (*knock on wood*), but I've been knocked unconcious several amusing ways.

The first was in 8th grade gym class. Kick ball with no boundaries, and one of the doors out to the hallway, directly left of the plate was open, so everyone was aiming for that. As a counter, I decided to stand to the left of the plate to block anyone who tried. I caught a kickball to the face that knocked me out on impact, flat on my back. When I came to, everyone as asking me if I was OK, and if I was in pain. The only thing that stung was the texture of the kickball on my face... Game on!


Another one was at a friends house, he had a tire swing tied to the top of a branch that had an elbow in it. Standing on top of it, like the smart kid I was, my buddy decided to start swinging it back and forth by the excess rope. My head smashed against the elbow of the tree, and I fell on to a rocky lawn from 5-6 feet up, flat on my back. When I came to, all I remembered was how much my head hurt, but the fall didn't seem to hurt at all.

There were others, but I'm not recalling those at the moment! Go figure...

Both times, I remember seeing a flash of light. Anyone else encounter this?

[Maawdawg]

Never been knocked out before, I have seen stars and hear the "bell Rung" buzzing sound but never had a flash of light. Even though I have broken lots of bones I have never sprained anything. I have strong joints I guess. The only thing that saved me from sprained ankles repeatedly is that mine are very flexible. If I accidentally roll my ankle the outside bone can hit the ground before I really feel any pain from it.

[Zer0sek]

Seeing as we are sharing stories, I'll share one of mine..

I've never shattered a bone, broken a bone, or anything for that matter, however..

So, I have this friend of mine, a girl, and she was one of the most kick a** gals you could know..

She had horrible choices in boyfriends though..

So, one day shes had enough of one, he being a total jacka** all their time together, and she takes me along with her..

Now, she does this because he is one freaked out tweak..

She delivers the "I can't work with this anymore.." and he whacks out..

He then pulls a gun out..

(Big surprise)

I hadn't factored he'd have the balls to do anything with it..

All of a sudden, all goes red in my mind, as if I could here the click of the bullet within the chamber..

I took two rounds, one in the side, one in the biscep, and no one else knew, but a third in the lower quadrious lumborum (Lower back muscle)..

Damn Glocks hurt like a b****..

I grabbed his wrist, snapped the hand back, twisted his arm around and levered it against the wall, and pop, it was broken, I nearly took out his shoulder blade as well..

In the end, he turned out worse than me..

[Ender]

Well, all of my personal injuries have already been one-upped. I've never broken a bone of my own, but I have broken someone else's.

I was at a party, and after a while some friends and I decided we were bored, so we went outside to hold a kind of fight club. We decided to go all out, except for the face, since we didn't want to do any real damage; we just wanted a challenge. After I had fought with a few of my friends, and our exploits were spreading inside the party, some people came out and decided to give it a try.

Someone I didn't really know asked me to fight, so I went ahead and fought him. Long story short, he threw a punch at the exact same time I did, and our fists met, and mine won. I broke his hand, and his knuckle moved back about an inch or so. Pretty funny time, since I didn't realize anything had happened, I gave him two quick side shots, and he was on the ground quickly.

[Jlance999]

I can't think of anything yet...but Zer0sek..broke a mans arm with 3 bullets in you, pretty bad a. I'd never mess with you.

[Mattpfeil]

I am injury prone, very injury prone. I will now tell you why: When I was five I was trying to loosen a fitting on the end of a metal pipe, and like a retard I was using my teeth (plastic fitting though). Now as I was trying to do this as I was walking and at the same moment the fitting popped off I tripped. The pipe went through the back of my throat and lodged in between two of my vertebrae, injuring my spinal cord. Now the side effects of this are, ridiculous headaches, and an approximate 60% loss of sensation from the base of my skull down. Now like I said I am injury prone but that was by far the worst one.

Since I have such a dramatic loss of sensation I seen to have a lower value for personal safety, it doesn't hurt like it should when I get hurt

[Maawdawg]

I wouldn't say I am injury prone but I seem to have a knack for getting hurt by playing sports all out and maybe borderline recklessly.

OK, here is my list of broken bones. I think this is all of them anyway.

Chipped left eye socket (tripped and hit a cinder block when I was like 6)
Broken nose (2x, basketball elbow and tackle football on a frozen yard)
Fractured right elbow (baseball, hit by pitch)
Fractured wrist (hairline, snowboarding fall)
Many broken carpal and finger bones (as many as a dozen from basketball and volleyball and also punching stuff)
2 cracked ribs (volleyball collision)
stress fractures in both ankles (combo of hard slides in baseball and a jump off an 8' stone wall onto pavement
2 broken toes and 1 metatarsal on/in my right foot (bad landing on wet grass playing volleyball)

Besides that I have dislocated or separated my left shoulder a few times and had 3 instances where I needed stitches. Above my eye (eye socket incident above), chin, and a sliced finger.

[exkon]

No major pains heres, no broken bones or anything..the "worst" was probably a few months ago.

A week before my trip to New York, was playing football and slammed by knee hard on the turf, didn't think too much of it. It hurt to talk a little but wasn't that bad, a few days later, my knee swells up and I can barely walk. Bust a sac of fluid in my knee causing it to swell.

So I spent most of the week trying my best to heal up, and walked around New York with a bum knee.

[Shaynard]

I've had 3 broken ribs, broken several bones in both my feet, had both knees seperated and have had my hands broken several times.. My least favorite part of any injury has been the casts.. Damn I hate casts..

Now for the idiot injury... I made the mistake of accepting a 3wheeler ride from someone who had been drinking... He decided to try and climb this massive hill.. We got to the top and the bike came back on us.. I landed on the top of my head with my feet behind me on the lower part of the hill... At first I felt no pain and looked up right away and saw the 3wheeler about to roll over the driver.. I managed to pull him out of the way before the bike fell directly on him.. I got up and tried to walk and couldn't.... A trip to the hospital and some xrays later and I found out I cracked a bone in my neck clear through.. Never totally paralysed but very numb from about two years.. Still suffer headaches but at least i can walk.. Noone to blame but my own poor judgement

[SuperJay]

My two worst were:

1. A concussion when I was a kid, from running into something on my bike and flipping over the handlebars. We only know this b/c my bike was nearby and I was laying on my back, unconscious - later found that my t-shirt had a hole in the back and my head was scraped up from landing on the sidewalk. I don't have any real recollection of the event other than snapshot-like flashes of walking across the street with my mom and brother, laying in the car on the way to the hospital, riding down the hallway in a gurney, and waking up in a CAT scan tube with no f'ing idea where I was, what was happening, or what that crazy weird noise was. (Turns out the noise was my own voice, yelling.)

2. Maybe 6-7 years ago, tearing the ligaments in my shoulder via a Class 3 AC joint separation. Not a dislocation of the bone from the ball & socket joint in your shoulder, but basically the rupturing of the ligaments that hold your collarbone down. This occurred by me running downhill at night, tripping right as I got to the curb / street, and trying to curl up and roll as I fell, rather than putting my hands out in front of me to break my fall. (Yes, alcohol was involved.) Turns out ligaments don't heal, but broken bones do - so I would have been better off breaking both wrists / arms instead of taking the brunt of the impact on my right shoulder. Fun stuff. :P

[Maawdawg]

Ok, continuing on the near paralization stories...

My freshman year at college a bunch of my friends and I were playing 8 on 8 tackle football on one of the school side fields near the athletic complex. All game long I had been just missing big hits and finally I had one lined up on someone after a kickoff. The field was half frozen/half mud and the returner and I were running full speed at each other. He tried to cut and slipped and I was already low to run through him.

When I went forward and hit his chest he was already on his way down so I went right through and over him and landed forehead first on the ground. The tackle was a regular head up "bite the bicep" football tackle like you would make with a helmet on, or it was supposed to be, until his body wasn't there to slow me down.

Needless to say I went full speed into the ground when brushing off him turned my momentum. My face and forehead hit the ground, as did the top of my chest, but my legs curled over me backwards, making my body an O shape. My friend said it looked like something from the cirque de soleil. I am not a very flexible person at all and I managed to kick myself in the back of the neck, leaving a sneaker mark.

My whole neck and back crunched and popped when it happened and for a split second everything tingled but after that initial bit my body was fine. After making sure everything worked I stood up and went back to my dorm. That short time was scary as hell though because I remember thinking that I had just broke my neck and was instantly trying to make sure I could feel and move all the parts of my body.

I got up slightly worse for wear, with an entirely scraped up face and chin and sore abs for like a week following because they had been stretched beyond belief. If I was just a little unlucky that day it could have turned out a lot different though.

[laxfish76]

When I was in Mexico last year, I was at an Iberostar hotel with a "sports" pool. It had a mini basketball net on the side, a volleyball net, and water polo nets. The pool is 5 feet deep. I am 6 feet. So, I think, I will totally dunk this net, I run in and dunk, jumping in the pool. At this time, I have my left leg hyperextended, and I forgot to bend it at the bottom of the pool.

BOOM.

I hit the bottom.

When I come up, I look at my leg.

I have a dent where my patella (knee cap) should be, and it is on the side of my leg.

1 hour, I had to wait for help to come. Apparently, in Mexico, medical help is hard to find.

They had to pop it back in, and for 2 months I had a brace on my knee.

To this day, I have a really weak knee, and it feels like its going to come out again soon as it hurts.

Also, when I was 3, my dad unhinged a door to put his motorcycle in the house. So, I run up to the door and push it, and it lands on me.

Broke my pelvis, almost punctured my bladder.

Also, I broke my wrist and big toe last year.

[Mattpfeil]

When I was in Mexico last year, I was at an Iberostar hotel with a "sports" pool. It had a mini basketball net on the side, a volleyball net, and water polo nets. The pool is 5 feet deep. I am 6 feet. So, I think, I will totally dunk this net, I run in and dunk, jumping in the pool. At this time, I have my left leg hyperextended, and I forgot to bend it at the bottom of the pool.

BOOM.

I hit the bottom.

When I come up, I look at my leg.

I have a dent where my patella (knee cap) should be, and it is on the side of my leg.

1 hour, I had to wait for help to come. Apparently, in Mexico, medical help is hard to find.

They had to pop it back in, and for 2 months I had a brace on my knee.

To this day, I have a really weak knee, and it feels like its going to come out again soon as it hurts.

Also, when I was 3, my dad unhinged a door to put his motorcycle in the house. So, I run up to the door and push it, and it lands on me.

Broke my pelvis, almost punctured my bladder.

Also, I broke my wrist and big toe last year.

Why was he trying to put a motorcycle in the house?

[laxfish76]

It was winter.

Snow is bad for motorcycles.

[Maawdawg]

People do that in cold areas at times if they don't have a garage to store it in. I used to know someone who kept his in his apartment living room. That may not be the reason but it would be my best guess. :)

EDIT: damn, beat me with the reply.

[Mattpfeil]

I have a motorcycle and I just built a small shed on the side of the house to keep it out of the weather

[Zer0sek]

I have never broken a bone in my body, my last post in here was just one I thought to share with you all..

I don't care to recall it all that often due to the fact my dear friend was almost killed, all due to some a**hole who couldn't put down the drugs..

As for something less serious, I once got into a rough tussel with a guy who thought it'd be a nice day to try out his brass knuckles..

(I hate city life)

So he swings at me, completely out of the blue as I am walking home, straight into my side..

Knocked the wind right out of me..

And as it seems to happen in cases of fighting, I recover in a split second, throwing my gaze into his..

Things went red in my vision, as he started to ready for another swing, and I grab his fist, locking it in mine, crushing the brass into both our hands..

My palm started bleeding from the pressure, as I heard the snap of one of his knuckles..

The guy brought is other fist around and into my face, recoiled, then brought it down on my arm..

Police officer broke us up in the end..

I came out with a cut up hand, two bruised ribs and a ringing headache..

He got away with two broken knuckles, and somehow, a dislocated finger and a broken nose..

[Beyond Birthday]

Reply: I'm too lazy to put myself in harm's way. The most that's happened to me is, that i've broken my right thumb twice, both during sports, and now i only have one hitchhiker's thumb :(

[Jurgy]

When I was 6 years old, I went down a slide head first, on my back.

I fell off the side and broke both bones in my right arm. I got up, saw the front half my arm dangling by the meat and skin, I screamed, and I passed out, or at leas that's when my folks tell me. I barely remember.

[Ender]

Laxfish, I don't know if this is going to apply to you, since I'm not a physical therapist or anything, and I'm sure you've been treated for your knee.. But if you do calf raises, it strengthens your knees.

Proper form, if for some reason you don't know, is to stand on the balls of your feet on something raised, like a stair. Slowly lower yourself down as far as you can, and raise yourself up as high as you can as fast as you can. Then slowly lower yourself again.

You're supposed to go for one hundred on each foot. If you have a really weak knee though, I'd start with both feet. When your knees are as strong as they can be, you should be able to do four sets of one hundred calf raises on each foot. Yikes!

Oh and Zer0sek, you sound like a real badass. I'd be interested to see what you could do with some training in fighting techniques. Probably kill a man..

[Beyond Birthday]

Reply: Only using his pinky

[Eleazar]

Never broken a bone, but I have had my left lung partially collapse twice in two months. It is far more dangerous then I thought, if that specific lung collapsed just a little bit more I might not be here typing right now.

[Maawdawg]

Yeah, collapsed lung is like trying to blow up a deflated balloon that was wet on the inside. It just doesn't work.

[Ender]

I seem to be injury resistant. Not quite sure why, but I broke that guys hand without a bruise appearing on my own hand.

I once was snowboarding, and was sideslipping to a halt on the side of one of the runs, and I didn't see the moguls over there, so when I came in at full speed, and went for a stop, I flew up in the air, did a flip, and landed on my shoulder/neck. I just shrugged it off and chilled out with my uncle until the rest caught up with us.

Another time, I was riding a bike with some friends, and two of us accidentally.. locked up on a hill. I was going down, and he was coming up. I flipped over the handlebars, and landed on my shoulder again. And yet again, nothing happened to me.

I was sledding in Wisconsin years ago, and I was spinning down a hill on an innertube. I smacked my head against a tree trunk, and woke up laying sprawled at the bottom of the hill. I had hardcore tunnel vision, and everything else was blackness with white rings of light moving from the center of my vision outward. I had a serious concussion, but couldn't tell anyone because I couldn't speak. They just thought I had the flu, since I was vomiting for about a day. Could have had a clot in my brain, but I ended up just getting better. Well, guess that one actually got me. :D

Edit: Speaking of lungs, I once had pneumonia and coughed up blood. I thought that was pretty epic at the time.

[Public Relation]

I have injoyed reading these posts very much. Some of them are really funny(darwin awards?)

Well here is my worst injury.....

While in Iraq I was in a convoy and got hit by a suicide bomber (asshole) and sent our truck flying and flipping through the air. I got shrapnal in the back of my neck. After the truck stopped flipping I got out and put out the fire that was on my arm and leg. THEN we got ambushed(basterds kick you when your down) a RPG went off about 15-20 feet beside me and knocked me out for about 3 sec (no white light that I can remmember) I got back up and returned fire with my saw. Because I was standing in the middle of the street I didn't have anything to hide behind and got shot in the foot of all places. The fire fight went on for about 2 more hours after that. I have never felt so jacked up after a fight in my life. But in the end 9 dead Iraqis 0 marines killed. Because we dont shoot people in the feet(basterds).

And all I have to show for it is a 2 medals one with a "V" on it and alot of pain for the rest of my life. But I am going to the VA soon to get my money for the rest of my life so I will deal with it.(green makes me feel better)

[Ender]

While I respect your service to this nation, I request that you keep your racism out of your posts. I know we're at war with the Iraqis (not the Iraqis themselves, but the insurgents), but it doesn't give you the right to blame their race for the reason of the war. For this reason, I am editing out the offensive term in your post. Aren't you fighting to help the Iraqis, too? To provide them with what some would consider a more benevolent rule?

[Public Relation]

Fair enough, sorry didn't think about it. Won't happen again. I typed that because it was too hard to type Hadji which I am not sure I spelt correctly. In truth most of them dont even wear rags on thier heads its not really a religious thing for them its because of all the sand storms so they have somthing to cover thier face and neck with.(fun fact for the day) "benevolent rule" not exactly just trying to keep them from killing eachother mostly.

[Ender]

That is more of a benevolent rule than their previous ruler -a dictator- who repeatedly killed his own people, wouldn't you say? Not trying to argue, just discussing it.

[xxfuterama12xx]

I wouldn't say I am injury prone but I seem to have a knack for getting hurt by playing sports all out and maybe borderline recklessly.

OK, here is my list of broken bones. I think this is all of them anyway.

Chipped left eye socket (tripped and hit a cinder block when I was like 6)
Broken nose (2x, basketball elbow and tackle football on a frozen yard)
Fractured right elbow (baseball, hit by pitch)
Fractured wrist (hairline, snowboarding fall)
Many broken carpal and finger bones (as many as a dozen from basketball and volleyball and also punching stuff)
2 cracked ribs (volleyball collision)
stress fractures in both ankles (combo of hard slides in baseball and a jump off an 8' stone wall onto pavement
2 broken toes and 1 metatarsal on/in my right foot (bad landing on wet grass playing volleyball)

Besides that I have dislocated or separated my left shoulder a few times and had 3 instances where I needed stitches. Above my eye (eye socket incident above), chin, and a sliced finger.

jeez maaw all i've broken are bones in 2 places
3 fingers on right hand at once, when my cousin decided he'd turn the treadmill full speed when i got bored and turned it off, well i went flying back and slammed fingers on wall, would've injured spine doctor said but my fingers cushioned the slam against the wall,

and the other was the right arm, decided to get in a fight with my older brother, yeah didn't exactly win

[Public Relation]

Make another thread and send me a link I will be more than happy to discuss or debate but not argue with you.

[xxfuterama12xx]

Seeing as we are sharing stories, I'll share one of mine..

I've never shattered a bone, broken a bone, or anything for that matter, however..

So, I have this friend of mine, a girl, and she was one of the most kick a** gals you could know..

She had horrible choices in boyfriends though..

So, one day shes had enough of one, he being a total jacka** all their time together, and she takes me along with her..

Now, she does this because he is one freaked out tweak..

She delivers the "I can't work with this anymore.." and he whacks out..

He then pulls a gun out..

(Big surprise)

I hadn't factored he'd have the balls to do anything with it..

All of a sudden, all goes red in my mind, as if I could here the click of the bullet within the chamber..

I took two rounds, one in the side, one in the biscep, and no one else knew, but a third in the lower quadrious lumborum (Lower back muscle)..

Damn Glocks hurt like a b****..

I grabbed his wrist, snapped the hand back, twisted his arm around and levered it against the wall, and pop, it was broken, I nearly took out his shoulder blade as well..

In the end, he turned out worse than me..

closest thing I have to this is when i was 12 and a (now) ex boyfriend of my mothers pulled a gun on my mom, first i hid under the kitchen table then i realized he wasn't watching me, i snuck up and grabbed a knife from then knives set in the kitchen and put it to his throat, then my brother threatened to call the police and the guy threw the gun down and ran out the front door,

In the end she got back together with him for another 3 months then found out he did meth, then she finally dumped him
EDIT: oh yeah, and she gave him the gun back

[DirkPitt45]

Well I've been rather fortunate as well in not breaking bones. Only cracked my shin once, I was skiing down a black diamond run when some nooby little snowboarder (I ski) decides it would be cool stop in the middle of the hill and sit down. Of course he stops right when I'm coming around from a turn. I slammed my pole into the ground and whipped my skis around intending to land on my side and avoid injuring either of us. But the place I put my pole into happened to be a bit icy and slipped, causing my left ski to land hard on my right shin. Hurt like hell but I play soccer so my shins are fairly tuff and I just figured it was badly bruised. Didn't know it was broken until my gym teacher noticed the mark and me limping a bit. Suggested I go get it looked at and whadya know. Other then that, nothing.

[laxfish76]

breaking bones is fun.

you get time off school. :)

[Zer0sek]

I don't think I could kill a man unless driven to my brink of utter rage..

Believe it or not I dislike violence, but I would put my life on the line for anyone who is being the front-most victim..

I would do such, for any of you, you are my friends..

No one has the right to take any life, and if they attempt to, they will have to get through me..

And if it comes to that, they better know what in the Hell they are doing..