Worst fitness-related injury you've had?
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Torn acl from playing soccer1
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Liftheavylovehard wrote: »Torn acl from playing soccer
ACL injuries are the absolute worst. I'm just thankful I don't have horrible knee problems like before.1 -
Many broken fingers with football and rugby, but torn hamstring was the worst.1
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Blow out fracture to my eye orbit from a horse related injury (if you count that as sport)
Couple of screws, a titanium plate and plastic surgeon fixed me up.
Also torn my meniscus from basketball in high school.
Surprising, years of rugby and a decade in the military was kind to me..
I bought life insurance when I was 25... Le sigh..2 -
Not all of these are exercise-related, but dislocated my left shoulder 12 times. I can't remember how many times I've dislocated or separated my right shoulder. Otherwise, sprained ankles (some really bad), scrapes, cuts, runners toe, poison ivy, and sunburns are the worst I've had. I've done well with injury prevention.1
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Detached my right bicep, complete tears in right shoulder rotator cuffs 2 of the 4 that hold your shoulder together, partial tears in the other 2, same shoulder. JuJitsu class.1
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Knees left and right
Takes at least 6 weeks to heal1 -
my only e.r. injury was when i was around 13. i felt a little something let go in one armpit when i was trying to be nadia comaneci and do a walkover [never could, never can]. ended up discovering i had a softball-sized abscess at the site a few weeks later.
it was like a crimean field hospital around our house till it healed completely. a stoic i'm not, or not when i was 13. one parent holding me down and the other re-stuffing the hole with eight feet of iodined gauze two or three times a day. it took quite a long time to heal, but that's as close to drama as i've ever been.1 -
Broken ankle from gymnastics and torn ligaments from distance running1
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Kittened up my left bicep recently in physical therapy. It happened last week, and it's still kinda sore and swollen today. Smh1
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Leg cramps1
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The usual assortment of muscle pulls, shin splints, (mild) tendonitis, and knee pain, all brought on by Army-based physical activity.
Oh, yeah. And a crushed testicle from a poorly-aimed (and red card-rewarded) kick by an opposing player back in 1993.
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worst pain i've been in though wasn't even an injury. at least i never saw anyone about it since it began to wear off after four or five days, so i assume if i'd done something bad i would have known it.
i wiped out on black ice and took the entire force of the fall on my right hip. it happened so fast i never even took my hands off the handlebars or strained anything else with a startle reflex, because there wasn't one. i assume all i did was jam the head of my femur in the socket and probably stress or bruise the capsule tissue, but holy tooth-sweating *kitten* did that hurt for a while. i rode home with my opposite leg because i couldn't even put that foot to the ground.
believe any doctor who ever tells you 'the hip is a major joint'. my rheumatologist was always nagging me about it and i kept blowing her off, but she's right. it's a really really big joint.1 -
Does anyone know how long after having ankle surgery on both with having 5 screws Inot 1and 2 put in the other ankle it was Feb 6 2016 when my surgery took place1
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5th metatarsal stress fracture (left foot).. and double sprained ankle (this was a stupid running accident).
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My left foot was damaged way back in 2008, but.. Hmm, could be.. iunno1
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Mild tear of Tibiocalcaneal ligament (idiot came under the net in volleyball and swept my ankle)
Rotator cuff tear (won the volleyball tournament, but at the expense of the shoulder)
Degenerative arthritis in knees (lots of distance running, volleyball, and recently tennis)
Most recent was another ankle sprain in January (tennis) and then a cervical 5-6 herniation with moderate cord compression (Training), which I am STILL dealing with. Grrrr....1 -
Fortunately nothing horrible. I did hurt my back once when I was going to squat, took the barbell off the rack, and as I was stepping backwards my shoe gripped the concrete and held my foot back, twisting my back with 240 lbs on it ha ha. That's sucked.1
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My list:
Sports
Boxing: Broke nose several times, split lip where I needed 6 stitches, split eyelid where I got 4 stitches.
Gymnastics: Broke my ulna and radius. Still remember it snapping and my Dad freaking out. Lol. It was hanging there.
Netball: Patella tendon tear and later a patella tendon rupture.
Field hockey: Broke fibula and tibia and a couple of ribs. Girls had a tendency to fling the ball where the only way to minimise injury was to place your back or chest as a physical block.
Fitness
Military Assault Course - 20ft tire wall: Lost my footing at the top turn and fell butt first all the way down. Upon landing the sheer force of my drop propelled me forward and chipped my tooth.
Free Running: Trimalleolar fracture(left).
Worst ever? That would have to have been my field hockey injury@broken fibula and tibia. Apart from my leg turning to blubber, upon arrival at the hospital after being air lifted by our Navy to the City hospital, the Specialist on duty (did not speak English)wanted to amputate my leg without even ordering an xray. I had not cried till that moment. Gawd! Third world issues. Suffice it to say, I name dropped, pulled rank (never ever had I used my father's name) to receive the treatment my leg needed.
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777Gemma888 wrote: »My list:
Sports
Boxing: Broke nose several times, split lip where I needed 6 stitches, split eyelid where I got 4 stitches.
Gymnastics: Broke my ulna and radius. Still remember it snapping and my Dad freaking out. Lol. It was hanging there.
Netball: Patella tendon tear and later a patella tendon rupture.
Field hockey: Broke fibula and tibia and a couple of ribs. Girls had a tendency to fling the ball where the only way to minimise injury was to place your back or chest as a physical block.
Fitness
Military Assault Course - 20ft tire wall: Lost my footing at the top turn and fell butt first all the way down. Upon landing the sheer force of my drop propelled me forward and chipped my tooth.
Free Running: Trimalleolar fracture(left).
Worst ever? That would have to have been my field hockey injury@broken fibula and tibia. Apart from my leg turning to blubber, upon arrival at the hospital after being air lifted by our Navy to the City hospital, the Specialist on duty (did not speak English)wanted to amputate my leg without even ordering an xray. I had not cried till that moment. Gawd! Third world issues. Suffice it to say, I name dropped, pulled rank (never ever had I used my father's name) to receive the treatment my leg needed.
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3rd degree strained hamstring at 40 years old and then straining again at 48 both times playing football.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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My worst was from playing rugby league
I was tackled around a goal post, my legs were taken one way and my body the other
My knees snapped upwards (folded the wrong way)
One knee all but completely destroyed, plate, pins and a rod holding it together now
The other fractured really badly and required a heap of screws and a plate
Needless to say, I cried like a *kitten*
Couldn't walk unassisted for over a year, got really fat and lazy
Upside. Can now run and even leg press/squat2 -
Dislocated ankle with ruptured ligaments, all from stepping om a hockey stick during a game.0
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Twisted my knee when skiing to avoid a massive collision. Ended up at high speed in a heap of snow. My knee just could not cope the change from high speed to none, while turning.
Took ages for it to get to a point where I could dance again (at the time I did a lot of ballroom dancing) and still 25 years later it is the first area in my body that says - too much.0 -
My current one. Broken ankle from a Tough Mudder0
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Ripping off half my toenail0
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Tore the cartilage between my abs, which left me unable to move just about anything above my waist for almost a year. That's also the year I gained almost 80 lbs
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JustMissTracy wrote: »Tore the cartilage between my abs, which left me unable to move just about anything above my waist for almost a year. That's also the year I gained almost 80 lbs
omg that hurts like a *kitten*. I suspect I must have done something similar since my ribs have been sore for about 6 months and I keep aggravating them stupid me1 -
When i was in boot camp I was supposed to run and leap onto a brick wall with hands at the top and pull myself over... haha NOPE i panicked at the last moment and just straight hit the wall I ended up having to get knee surgery 6 months later because I was having extreme knee pain.0
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I once pushed my car too hard and got into the the wall on turn three of the Indy 500.
It banged up my knee pretty good.0
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