Worst sports/fitness injury?

[remilard]

I have been lucky, I think the worst injury I have had was a broken hand. I did once have an accident in the weight room and went into shock, but it wasn't really that bad.

How about you guys?

[xrodolfox]

I've been a pretty active athlete all my life...
And the worst I've ever had was a sprained ankle (soccer). I've gotten a bit of tennis elbow from competitive swimming, but that got fixed after one season.

I've been lucky.

[SystmDwnGrl2]

fractured clavicle (collar bone, hockey injury), fractured navicular(foot, hockey injury), and fractured my humerus doing gymnastics when I was really little. Ive broken other various bones too, but not really from sports.

[Brandon]

Once I was out rollerblading and was almost run down by a person on a 10 speed bike. I had to dive out of the way, and ended up with road rash on most of my right arm.

Then, there is the bike wreck I had 2 weeks ago, when I was trying to avoid a collision with another cyclist and wound up accidentally riding full-force into a chain. Bruised up my face, both arms. Got road rash on my right bicep, and my chest and back were both sore for about a week.

Though all things considered, I've been fairly lucky, I'd say.

[nixona]

Broken radius and ulna (both bones in forearm) at a wrestling meet, 2 metal plates and 12 screws inserted during surgery for proper healing. (The kind that don't come out)

I also have pars defect in my second and third Lumbar levels. It's basically stress fractures on either side of the main vertebrae that help with stability. Best guess is that it's from years of football, wrestling and weightlifting.

I'm like the worst case scenario, you name it and I've probably done it. It's not like I'm clumsy or anything...

[Elena99]

This happened while I was biking for fun with friends, when I was about 13. I was visiting them from another province, so I was using my friend's brother's bike, which was too big for me.

We were riding down a gravel path down a hill with bushes to one side, grass to the other, and I was bringing up the rear. For some reason, L slowed right down and then started again. I was right behind her, so I swerved to miss her. I fell, skidded a few feet, and the bike rolled down and landed on my legs. OUCH. I had little scrapes on my palms and elbows, but the worse was my knees, my right one in particular. Two big holes. I got a tetanus shot and lots of bandaging. Had a hard time walking for a week after, at least, and I still have two large, circular shaped scars on my knee.

For a second place, during my first year of judo I was fighting with someone, and he threw me (that sounds bad, but throwing is one of the main attacks of judo, and the thrower holds on to the arm of the person anyway to maintain control). He lost his balance and landed on me, hitting my head, so I was sidelined. I swear everything was yellow for the next 20 minutes, and my doctor told me to take 2 weeks off of exercising/judo.

[DannyKass]

Bmxing I fell off, whacked my sholder on the ground, and tore the tendon in it.

(I probably should stop there.. but.. I was going like REALLY REALLY slow.. So embarrasing.)

[remilard]

I forgot about this one:

I was playing basketball one day and I went for a steal and the same time as my opponent kinda lowered his head to drive and we bumped heads and I got a pretty bad cut above my eye, 12 stitches. Both of my eyes and a fair amount of the rest of my face above my mouth were pretty bruised. That was when I was practicing TKD so in addition to having to convince people that wasn't how it happened I obviously couldn't spar for a while, other than with beginners who weren't able to hit me anywhere I didn't want them to.

[Tame]

I got chopped from behind (nice little cheap shot by a punk bitch) while trying to block a shot in basketball, and ended up with torn ligaments in my left ankle/leg. Never did completely recover. I could still play, run, jump etc, but I never regained my full vertical leap.

I spent 8 months looking for the little bastard that did that to me. He never did come back to the court where it happened.

[markc7]

Three years ago I was biking to work and got sideswipped by and @sshat in a car. I flew off my bike and dislocated my shoulder badly. Months later, I was fairly well healed, having done physiotherapy and lots of gentle weights. Then one day, I was at the weight room doing shoulder presses. I guess my stabilizer muscles weren't quite up to the challenge, because as I was lowering the weight on the 8th rep of the second set, my shoulder dislocated again. It turned around completely backwards in the socket. Ouch. I pulled it back into place on my own, but it was a while before I did weights again.

I learnt that it's probably best for me to stick to the shoulder press machine instead of the free weights.

[brownieB26]

shin splints. I ran second for my team two years ago, but unfortunately I don't know if I'll be running again because of it. (I'm bitchy b/c they're hurting right now, and I'm sitting)

[Jinga]

A couple years ago, I broke and dislocated a single toe while I was sparring. It wasn't exactly a big injury, but that poor toe was destroyed. It was bending several different directions and was broken diagonally and completely in half. It never recovered.

Most of my injuries happen when I'm just being lazy ... fell out of bed as a kid and cracked my clavical ... tripped in the living room and smacked my mouth wrapping one front tooth around the other and then puncturing my lip ... had some kid in grade school run into me and knock me down, breaking my wrist ... got rear ended and dislocated my jaw ... and had some jerk kick me in the back while sparring and crack a rib. Kicking in the back is not legal!

[Vegankat]

I've had shin splints, various twisted and sprained ankles from turning them en pointe, disconnected shoulder from a botched pas de deux practice (the guy lifted me at my waist, but didn't have a good grip or something, and I slid down and he tried to hold on... by grabbing my upper arm as I hit the floor :think: ), and now it seems my knees are effed up pretty badly, but I don't know for sure if it's related to dance. I've always had hyperextended knees and have been warned of the possibility of arthritis and all kinds of alignment issues.

[Professor12]

My most painful injury would be a biking accident when I was eight. I was chasing my brother around our neighborhood on the bike when he made a sharp turn in front of me. I went to do the same but the tire skidded out underneath me and I fell. Trouble for me was that the bike landed on my right leg, breaking both bones in the lower leg.

My most recent big injury would be dislocating my elbow in a football game two and a half years ago. I was a starting defensive linemen and the smallest on our team. My coach decided to try a 5-3 defense and put me over the center to start the second half. The opposing center weighed in excess of 280 pounds while I was about 165. When I went to hit him it was like moving a brick wall and he managed to pull the back of my helmet, causing me to fall with him on top of me. As I fell down I tried to brace myself with my right arm but it got caught, locked in front of me as I hit the ground and my elbow popped right out under the strain.

I have had many other minor injuries from jammed/dislocated fingers (football) to all sorts of running ailments (achilles tendonitis, itbs, stress fractures, metarsall troubles, pf, and shin splints).

[NDvegan85]

Let's see... I've done a lot of stuff but I think the worst is that I broke my back diving. Compression fracture at T6. I lost 40% of the vertebral height and actually went from 5' tall to 4'11 1/2" !

Diving is a pretty rough sport. I generally had bruises on my legs and rope burns on my arms at all times.

I've got a nice patch of road rash right now on my leg from my new tri bike. But I've been better on it since then! :)

I've broken no less than 3 fingers and 2 toes doing sports stuff... I've broken more than that and so I don't really bother to keep count anymore.

[markc7]

Diving is a pretty rough sport.


I hear that. I dislocated my other shoulder, got plenty of bruises, and got a couple stiches in my chin, all from diving. Luckily I got wise and started doing non-contact sports! :D

[Brandon]

Let's see... I've done a lot of stuff but I think the worst is that I broke my back diving. Compression fracture at T6. I lost 40% of the vertebral height and actually went from 5' tall to 4'11 1/2" !

Diving is a pretty rough sport. I generally had bruises on my legs and rope burns on my arms at all times.

I've got a nice patch of road rash right now on my leg from my new tri bike. But I've been better on it since then! :)

I've broken no less than 3 fingers and 2 toes doing sports stuff... I've broken more than that and so I don't really bother to keep count anymore.

I hate road rash. I've been treating mine with neosporin and Paul Mitchell's The Conditioner and it's clearing up really nicely.

[remilard]

I almost forgot, I had a ligament in my other hand torn during a Babe Ruth (junior baseball) game. I still have a weird lump on the palm.

[missleigh]

I hate road rash. I've been treating mine with neosporin and Paul Mitchell's The Conditioner and it's clearing up really nicely.

Really? Conditioner? I had no idea that would work. :think:

[porvida]

I dont really play sports, but I've gotten small injuries when I was little and other injuries from dance recently.

once when I was maybe 10 we were playing soccer at school and I was playing captain...I was talking to the goalie during a time out and when I turned back around someone had already kicked the ball--hard--from across the field and it smacked right into my face. not uncommon but I was pissed because it was still time out and I got a MASSIVE black eye and a bloody nose that lasted hours.

another time I was taking a short bike ride so I was barefoot (I will never ever do that again) and I somehow ran into a concrete bench, fell hard and the bike fell on top of me...one of the spokes sliced way into my big toe, I don't know how, but there was blood everywhere. my dad raced home and got the car to take me home and I was crying like crazy in my mom's arms....wow, I'd have to be about 7 for this one if they were still together...

Then there's always all the pulled muscles and sprained/twisted ankles from dance, and the burn I would get on the tops of my feet and knees from sliding against the glossy dance floor (that HURTS!). I was also in the auditorium of my school once practicing for our dance concert, and they have a special dance floor that they put down when a dance concert is coming up. well apparently they did a crap job of it because there was a screw sticking out of the floor, pointy side up, and I didn't see it and of course kneeled down right on top of it. I wasn't happy.

I broke my neighbor's finger once playing basketball, it was kind of dumb, i threw the ball to her from like 3 feet away and she was stupid and caught it wrong. she started screaming and I was standing there like "....what?" I was about 9, too, so i felt all bad.

but yeah I've never broken anything, only pulled muscles and sprained things like my foot...but that was another really dumb story.

[FreshTart]

In the military. I was humping 40+lbs at a fast pace. I twisted my knee and it gave out under me. We were in the middle of nowhere, so I had to walk out. At first, they thought I was being a wuss, but once the Master corporal had to help me stand and I walked a few kilometres with my arm around him (a man I hated), they rushed me to the ER when we got in.

I stretch my inner quad muscle from where it joins near the knee, so I could stand, but walking collapsed my leg. I spend the rest of the summer in a full leg brace with back steel plates to keep my leg from moving. After it was done, my thigh was the size of my calf.

[remilard]

and the burn I would get on the tops of my feet and knees from sliding against the glossy dance floor (that HURTS!).

In my martial arts days, I used to do some kicks where I landed in a split or on my knees, which is hell on your heel or knees respectively. I only did it on mats, but I've seen people do that stuff on concrete, eek.

[slynny]

A stress fracture was the worst I guess because it kept me down the longest.
Last year I wiped out on my bike and jammed my hip pretty bad, had the nasty road rash too and my legs were all black and blue...and yellow...icky.


Really? Conditioner? I had no idea that would work. :think:

That surprised me too, I wish I would have known.

[Vegankat]

and the burn I would get on the tops of my feet and knees from sliding against the glossy dance floor (that HURTS!).

I don't know if your dance school has a dress code, but I used to wear those black footless tights for modern class and pull them over my heels and the tops of my feet enough that I could avoid a lot of that burn. Each school is different about how they want you to dress, though (the ballet company I was in had a strict dress code, but my old college didn't), but I recommend that if you can, but be careful because your heels can slide a bit more than usual.

[porvida]

sometimes I would wear the stirrup tights, that leave your heel and toes open but cover the top of your feet, or sometimes just jazz shoes, and that prevented it sometimes. But occasionally for a modern dance we'd just go barefoot (one dance it was our costume--bare feet, capri jazz pants) so that left a lot open to be burned. sucked. I have a scar from a really bad one I got once.