Injuries. Whats your worst, if any?

[aaronbru]

I'm interested in seeing how many of us have had any real bad falls where they at least had to call it for the day. Or close calls.


On jan 8th this year I partially tore my ACL and my MCL when my right ski speared a big pile of powder, and stopped my ski in its tracks, hyper-extending my knee. I'm a week into therapy, trying to avoid surgery. Fun stuff.

My only other mild injury was launching off of one of the big jumps near the bottom of the wachusett park. It was my first run of the day and I didn't check the launch angle with a slower run first. Needless to say, I didn't lean forward enough and landed flat on my back/ass. I was 18 years old then, so after an hour in the lodge I finished the day up with a bruised tail bone on the groomers.

 

[Tooth]

Its bad ju-ju to speak of this. I hate it when people talk about this crap on the chairlift too. Hope you heal fast without surgery.

uke:

 

[neil]

Broken collarbone. Plated with screws to repair.

 

[bdfreetuna]

Dislocated shoulder @ Jiminy Peak about three weeks ago...

I was going really fast and decided to pull a 360 off this berm at the edge of the trail. I was going way to fast and thought I was going to get more air than I did so basically it was a sloppy attempt and just asking to get hurt.

When I landed I wasn't fully rotated and going way to fast to correct my sloppy landing. My front tip dug right in and flipped me over onto my left shoulder.

I knew right away this was gonna be bad news but I shook my shoulder around, got up, and it didn't hurt that bad at first.

Woke up the next day and realized the damage I had done. Spent the next 4 days in extreme pain unable to sleep and then looked up online about dislocated shoulders and how to pop them back in yourself. So apparently I did this, because when I went to the E.R. at Cooley Dickonson hospital later that night (because it still hurt so bad and I was worried I had damaged a nerve or possible artery... at points my whole arm had went numb)...

Anyway at the hospital they said I had popped it back in myself, but that I had messed up my rotator cuff and should lay off it for a while. They gave me a bunch of Percocet and a brace.

I felt it was pretty much healed by the next weekend and went skiing anyway and as of now I've skiied two days since then and it still hurts a little if I move it the wrong way but it's definitely mostly mended.

 

[djspookman]

My Head. My advice, don't hit yours.

I'm still suffering some balance issues, more than a year after my crash. I'm 90% back to normal, skiing fine, but when i'm exhausted, it really shows, as I now show signs of fatigue much sooner than the rest of my body. I get really dizzy still as a result of that.

The other stuff:
5 broken wrists
broken ankle
broken thumb+torn ligaments
and partial ACL tear/ crushed minicus

ALL pale compared to the head injury. (ACK)

 

[hammer]

My Head. My advice, don't hit yours.

I'm still suffering some balance issues, more than a year after my crash. I'm 90% back to normal, skiing fine, but when i'm exhausted, it really shows, as I now show signs of fatigue much sooner than the rest of my body. I get really dizzy still as a result of that.

The other stuff:
5 broken wrists
broken ankle
broken thumb+torn ligaments
and partial ACL tear/ crushed minicus

ALL pale compared to the head injury. (ACK)

Sorry to hear it's still bothering you...hope you are having a good season so far nevertheless.

 

[Nick]

This thread is scaring the crap out of me.

 

[Riverskier]

Dislocated shoulder @ Jiminy Peak about three weeks ago...

I was going really fast and decided to pull a 360 off this berm at the edge of the trail. I was going way to fast and thought I was going to get more air than I did so basically it was a sloppy attempt and just asking to get hurt.

When I landed I wasn't fully rotated and going way to fast to correct my sloppy landing. My front tip dug right in and flipped me over onto my left shoulder.

I knew right away this was gonna be bad news but I shook my shoulder around, got up, and it didn't hurt that bad at first.

Woke up the next day and realized the damage I had done. Spent the next 4 days in extreme pain unable to sleep and then looked up online about dislocated shoulders and how to pop them back in yourself. So apparently I did this, because when I went to the E.R. at Cooley Dickonson hospital later that night (because it still hurt so bad and I was worried I had damaged a nerve or possible artery... at points my whole arm had went numb)...

Anyway at the hospital they said I had popped it back in myself, but that I had messed up my rotator cuff and should lay off it for a while. They gave me a bunch of Percocet and a brace.

I felt it was pretty much healed by the next weekend and went skiing anyway and as of now I've skiied two days since then and it still hurts a little if I move it the wrong way but it's definitely mostly mended.

Sorry about your shoulder, but no way you dislocated it. I have dislocated my right one 4 times and the pain would send you immediately to the ER. I mean INTENSE pain. You also wouldn't be able to move your arm at all, and you would be able to see and feel that your shoulder was out of the socket. When the ball is out of the socket, your arm is essentially hanging there and it doesn't even look like your shoulder.

 

[kickstand]

Ruptured/torn quadricep. I would take another torn ACL over that every day, twice on Sunday.

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00294

 

[Riverskier]

I have torn both ACL's and one achilles tendon. 2 dislocated shoulders too.

 

[wa-loaf]

Blown ACL on left knee.

 

[skiersleft]

Please stop. It hurts to just read about all this stuff.

 

[Riverskier]

Please stop. It hurts to just read about all this stuff.

Then why are you reading it?

 

[skiersleft]

Then why are you reading it?

I should probably stop.

 

[zinger3000]

Rotator cuff injury. I was collided into from behind by another skier who was going way too fast and apparently not in control. Didn't see it coming. (Unlike cars, skis don't have rear-view mirrors.) 5 weeks of physical therapy. No skiing either for those 5 weeks.

 

[bdfreetuna]

Sorry about your shoulder, but no way you dislocated it. I have dislocated my right one 4 times and the pain would send you immediately to the ER. I mean INTENSE pain. You also wouldn't be able to move your arm at all, and you would be able to see and feel that your shoulder was out of the socket. When the ball is out of the socket, your arm is essentially hanging there and it doesn't even look like your shoulder.

The rush of natural endorphins numbed the pain for several hours after the injury. I got drunk that night because it was New Years Eve and basically passed out not noticing the extent of the pain. When I woke up it was a whole nother story.

Yes my shoulder was sticking out funny and I couldn't move it backwards or raise my arm above the level of my neck without excruciating pain.

I should have gone immediately to the ER but I tend to avoid medical treatment as usually I heal pretty well from all kinds of things... it would have saved me four or five days of excruciating pain.

Finally I had had enough and performed a manuever to relocate my shoulder on my own, which was wicked painful but I felt I'd rather try to do it myself before going to the ER. When I got to the ER I was X-Rayed and diagonosed as having had a dislocated shoulder and the doctor was pretty suprised I worked it back in but said I was lucky I was able to do that because it basically saved him from having to do it... but since I had been spending 4-5 days with it at least partially dislocated he said I had really done some damage to the tendons around my rotator cuff and therefore I should expect to be in pain for quite a while more. Thus the sling and Percocets.

Not all shoulder dislocations are the same, there's multiple ways it can go, and depending on if you fuck up a nerve or not the pain can be instantly unbearable or it can be a kind of pain that gets worse and worse over time until you finally fix it.

 

[Warp Daddy]

2 broken wrists -- 5 yrs apart

 

[steamboat1]

* Severely sprained angle when I was about 7-8. Couldn't put any weight on it for a couple weeks.
* Torn rotary cuff in 1980 at Stowe. Don't know if that counts because I skied for 2 days after it happened even though my arm was immobile for months. Can't waste those vacation days you know.
* Yes I have skiers thumb, broke one about a dozen years ago while skiing. I skied for several weekends after with a cast on. Put a wool sock over the cast & a plastic bag over both. Worked pretty good.
* Hit a tree about 10 years ago. A few either broken or bruised ribs, hurt both wrists pretty bad trying to protect myself, couldn't use either one at all for a few days to do things as simple as turning a key or opening a door. Both hands turned a dark grey color & looked like they were dead. Thankfully I wasn't going fast. Happened in the Birch glades at Pico. I cut into one of those little kiddie paths through the trees on that trail & caught an edge just as I was going in. Otherwise it's an open trail not really gladed. The tree didn't move & knocked the wind out of me. Someone from the chair saw what happened & asked if I was OK, I couldn't answer (yes the birch glade chair was still there at the time). It must of happened early in the season because I do remember skiing later that year.

That's all i can think of for now. Been injury free for awhile now.

I never did & still don't wear a helmet.

 

[kingslug]

Cartwheeled and slid about 600 feet down a somewhat steep run ripping out my right shoulder..it kept separating..along with my left one from a previous mishap...many times..so now they are both a little screwed up but never come out anymore...that sent me home. At Panorama BC in flat light..first day second run of a seven day stay...launched off a lip in front of a cat track in the middle of the run..nice back flip...knocked me for a loop..but kept going..Bourbon and Advil did the trick. Not much else in 17 years...the first year I tried this little sport of ours..well..black and blue every week...learning on solid ice is a bitch...

 

[djspookman]

Sorry to hear it's still bothering you...hope you are having a good season so far nevertheless.

Yeah, it stinks, but that's ok Still having fun anyway, just taking it a bit slower. Thanks! Hope all is well with you too, maybe next year we'll get the race team going again!