Injuries. Whats your worst, if any?

[billski]

I should probably stop.

I stop for injuries. Turn page please.

 

[Puck it]

5 knee surgeries, torn bicep, multiple shoulder separations, and a hip problem that will require replacement eventually.

 

[deadheadskier]

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.

Impressive. Separating a shoulder and skiing 85 mph three weeks later at Sunapee.

 

[Edd]

2 broken arms, 1 broken wrist, and a torn ACL last year. The ACL got my attention and, along with external factors, has really slowed me down this year. I usually have 4 times the number of ski days than I have at this point.

 

[BMac]

Last year skiing Red Line for the first time on a powder day I got a little lost and too enthusiastic and decided to huck what I though was the previous cliff. I was unfourtunately wrong and hucked maybe 15 feet to an uphill landing. Knees came up into my face and after seeing stars I spit out a tooth and left the Red Line a little redder than before. Probably lucky my jaw and rest of my teeth were still intact.

 

[bdfreetuna]

Impressive. Separating a shoulder and skiing 85 mph three weeks later at Sunapee.

75mph .... but yeah dude, you only got one life to live as far as I can tell :beer:

 

[severine]

Partially torn ACL. No surgery, just PT.

 

[ERJ-145CA]

A couple of years ago at Bromley in March I was skiing down some steep, un-groomed terrain and caught an edge, got turned around and wiped out. Sudden intense pain from my right calf, I pulled it really bad. After maybe 10 minutes I was able to get up, get my skis back on and get down the mountain slowly with little weight put on my right leg. I got back to the hotel and iced it. My season was pretty much over (at least it was March). I limped around for about a week and a half and then finally felt better.

I did do a couple of hours about 2 weeks later, took it real easy on some cruisers and felt fine but when I got home and took off my sock blood had pooled in my foot and my calf was all bruised. I probably shouldn't have skied that day.

Now when I tense my right calf muscle it has a flat spot on the top instead of being rounded like my other one. So it was probably a pretty significant injury but it works just fine and doesn't bother me at all.

 

[skiersleft]

Wear a helmet. That is all. Thanks.

 

[steamboat1]

Wear a helmet. That is all. Thanks.

But I never hurt my head.

 

[kingslug]

Work out..get strong...stretch out ..get flexible...trust me..it works...

 

[nikkiski]

My worst injury was when I dislocated my should....I got my arm stuck in a rope swing...i stay away from them now!

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

my 6yr old fell yesterday, not training, just a free ski day.....broken collar bone...done for the season..brave little girl for the amount of pain she was in

 

[drjeff]

my 6yr old fell yesterday, not training, just a free ski day.....broken collar bone...done for the season..brave little girl for the amount of pain she was in

Sorry to hear that SQ. Hope your daughter is feeling as comfortable as possible and has an uneventful course of healing!

 

[drjeff]

Work out..get strong...stretch out ..get flexible...trust me..it works...

+1! Helps a bunch, and not for just skiing/riding related activities too!

 

[hammer]

my 6yr old fell yesterday, not training, just a free ski day.....broken collar bone...done for the season..brave little girl for the amount of pain she was in

Sorry to hear that...hope she heals quickly.

 

[o3jeff]

Luckily only a minor meniscus issue.

 

[Nick]

Of all time, not just skiing? I've actually never broken a bone (knock on wood). But I did go to the ER in high school when j took a nasty fall from my bike and had partial amnesia and was unconscious for a while

 

[2knees]

2 Knee S urgeries.

Acl on each knee.

 

[billski]

my 6yr old fell yesterday, not training, just a free ski day.....broken collar bone...done for the season..brave little girl for the amount of pain she was in

Oh crap.