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Hey - I forgot a broken metacarpal on Hemel Dry slope in 1986...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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valais2, ...glad I started this thread...it's just great imagining two things:
some of the circumstances
the idea of everyone here turning up at A+E simultaneously, presenting all the injuries listed...it would be like a zombie movie (directed by John Landis) meets Casualty.
there are some good ones eg 'cracked skull' (nothing else said! how exactly? helmet?) and 'cresta run injury' (impressed) and 'manchester velodrome' (respect) and 'umpteen broken and dislocated fingers' (what the....?)
But I still think everything else here is trumped by the brilliantly surreal 'Broken arm (sheep knocked me off fence)'
Bonkers.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| valais2 wrote: |
valais2, ...glad I started this thread...it
But I still think everything else here is trumped by the brilliantly surreal 'Broken arm (sheep knocked me off fence)'
Bonkers. |
Chap I work with has had a whole array of impressive injuries...but I think the most  was when he cracked a rib trying to have a poo in the karakorum
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Dislocated elbow with torn ligament (Ill judged piggyback - Age 8 )
Damaged acl (1st ski trip panic splat)
Broken toe (poorly timed shower exit resulting in toe rammed into door frame)
Broken fibula (EOSB 10 gnarl)
11 stitches in left brow (see above)
All in all fairly tame so may explain general chirperness after last year's incident. That said, the drugs were very good 
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broken pelvis (1st ski trip curtailed by this)
ACL rupture rebuild (right knee) - boarder using my knee to slow themselves down
2x medial meniscus - as above - carried on skiing for the weekend but couldn't walk
ligament damage right ankle - can't remember how
broken hand (chairlift handle went through it) - again carried on skiing for the week - just couldn't carry my skis
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valais2, I got my own back in the form of mutton chops and gravy 
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Well: clearly snowheads are mostly held together by steel pins and superglue. What a dull, safe life I must have had. I've never broken a bone in my life.
I have, though damaged ligaments on 3 occasions (ACL, ACL and medial, and shoulder - all skiing)): none severed totally though I now only have a bit of one ACL so have "ligament insufficiency" in that knee
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| snowball wrote: |
| I've never broken a bone in my life |
Don't. It really hurts. I can't begin to tell you how painful it is!
Well, I thought it was. And it gets steadily worse too, it's not as bad when you first snap it.
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In chronological order
Nose. (rugby)
Nose (rugby)
Nose (rugby)
Boken ankle (football)
Collar bone (rugby)
ACL.(Teaching rugby, apparently this was hilarious)
ACL (fell off podium, dancing to 'The Irish Rover')
Sprained thumb (skiing)
Nasty black big toe nail (skiing)
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Smashed teeth, ripped up face and hands (crashed bike, racing boys down road as a teenager - and I was in front!, No cycle helmet, have worn one when cycling since then!)
Broken back - compressed 3 lower vertebrae when I was 20 (fell off horse, hit tree stump, no back protector, have worn one when horse back riding since then!) <----- I don't recommend this, most painful thing that has ever happened, when the only reaction was an inhuman blood curdling scream for about 10 minutes while I got the pain under control
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Based on the others I think I've had a rather quiet life.
Broken toes - parachuting
Dislocated right shoulder - parachuting
Fractured right elbow - parachuting
Multiple broken ribs - parachuting
Narrow escape, 900ft and still no parachute! (no injuries but it took a few years off my life at least!)
Dislocated right shoulder - skiing
Left knee ACL\Patella\Cartilage- fell walking in Snowdonia
More broken toes - kicked fireplace !
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Forgot the other time i cracked my skull on a porcelain toilet bowl shattering the loo to the water level. That also left a great scare.
I was lucky. As it happened I was at a mates place who was a vet. He gave me an injection of somthing that allowed me to continue the party in the jacuzzi until the early hours which was great as my ex tried to hoover up bits of porcelain mixed with loo water thus blowing the electrics knocking out the heating in the middle of winter.
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You know it makes sense.
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Poster: A snowHead
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OK, well if we are beginning to do the more obscure injuries.
I once went to get a TB jab at a GP's surgery, walked out of the surgery, passed out whilst walking through the waiting room, hit a fire-extinguisher which was holding open a door  on the way down which gouged an 8" gash across the middle of my back and I ended up back in the doctors surgery getting it dressed.
I also passed out once whilst I was on the loo late at night, and on the way to the floor must have collided with the edge of the sink and ended up with a socking great big bruise on by forehead and came to about 3 hours later freezing cold on the bathroom floor.
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| Megamum wrote: |
| also passed out once whilst I was on the loo late at night, and on the way to the floor must have collided with the edge of the sink and ended up with a socking great big bruise on by forehead and came to about 3 hours later freezing cold on the bathroom floor. |
Would you mind re-posting that on the helmet thread? 
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Smashed Teeth (Leapfrogged a bollard, hands got stuck, face hit the concrete)
But my best...
Broken Collarbone, fell out of bed on the 2nd day of a holiday! 
Nothing skiing yet though!
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Currently recovering from surgery on snapped Achilles coming out of bindings frontwards - did it in February but wasn't diagnosed until April after 2 more skiing weekends. Thought it was badly pulled calf muscle and tried to convince my boss that the best treatment was to keep it in a ski boot (which was actually true) but he didn't wear it and told me to stop stringing him along and get on a plane back to work.
Had a fun few weeks wearing shorts to the office and meetings . . . . . .
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| alti - dude wrote: |
| ...tried to convince my boss that the best treatment was to keep it in a ski boot (which was actually true) but he didn't wear it and told me to stop stringing him along... |
How would your boss wearing a ski boot help your achilles? 
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Why are some of us prone to multiple breaks, without having osteoporosis? Are some of us more brittle than others? My husband says I have a season ticket for A&E:
- L fibula (skiing)
- R ACL thumb (not knee) (dry slope)
- L collar bone (skiing)
- L kneecap (washing the car)
- R humerus/shoulder (fall on icy road)
At one time, I had a one in three chance of breaking something if I fell over skiing, so I found it was better to avoid falling in the first place.
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Don't know whether to do this Chronologically or by cause, let's start at the bottom
badly sprained ankle, motorbike
broken toe, hit with spade
did something to my knee skiing 20 yrs ago, still twinges, still haven't seen the doc about it
suspect cracked ribs, skiing
broken bone in hand, motorbike
broken R collarbone, motorbike
broken L collarbone, motorbike, went over the handlebars of a motorcross bike, ok till the bike ran me over
broken collarbone, skiing
other numerous cut and bruises, mostly caused by going too fast on one thing or another
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Broken right wrist, football. I can even remember the date - 29th April 1970. It was FA Cup final replay day between Leeds and Chelsea which I watched in hospital.
Broken nose, cricket.
Broken toes * 2, cricket & football.
Torn ankle ligaments * 2 football.
Only one skiing injury though, torn ankle ligaments when I fell off a bar stool. Well I class it as a ski injury as I missed three day skiing
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Right collarbone *3 (might be 4, lost count), 2/3 from mountainbiking, 1 dicking about playing rugby while not fully recovered
Elbow *2, one mountainbiking, one dicking about
Class 3 concussion, mountainbiking
Mild whiplash, Bmx falling apart underneath me while commuting
Yet to seriously hurt myself skiing. The way I see it, mountainbiking is far more likely to give you minor injuries and skiing is more likely to kill you
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If I break half as many bones as some of you, I'm staying on the sofa for the rest of my life!
OK, childhood injuries really shouldn't count. That's call LEARNING!
Me:
- Dislocated elbow falling off bicycle as a teenager
- Stretched knee ligament (MCL) multiple times, skiing.
(As a result of the second item, I quit skiing for some years. On a dare from a friend, I went back skiing again. And promptly pull the ligament again. So I took some lessons from some top instructors. No more ligament issues since then.)
But what's good for the knee is less good for me overall:
- Fractured ribs at 2 places when arguing with a tree (on ski)
There're other injuries not involving bones. But all in all, I don't have too many hospital visits due to daily life or sport. So I'll continue to do what I've been doing. 
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By comparison, mine are pretty tame...
Broke front teeth off (age 10, ran into a wall)
Fractured lower jaw in 2 places (age 12, fell off under a horse that then stood on my face)
Fractured skull - hairline (age 13, hit in eye by golf ball - full throttle drive too). Lesson learned - when you hear 'fore' DUCK!
Suspected fracture ribs (MTB spill)
Torn L upper arm muscles (skiing on flat as pancake green run - at the time was convinced I'd broken my humerus - never had pain like it)
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The tally for Mrs daveyladboy
Broken arm - of another girl, who she pushed off a tree.
Badly injured paw - dropped cat out of bedroom window.
Once fainted in a supermarket and lost all bowel control. Not pretty.
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Strains and sprains and cracks aplenty from chronologically, skateboarding, mountain biking, skiing and generally being a dick. My nose was not always wonky (night club in Sunderland). But worst was just a little itty bitty bone which broke. Unfortunately it was in my neck.
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Ok, here we go:
Knelt on a needle, went through kneecap, broke in 2 and required 3 hr surgery to remove from the centre of joint (lounge floor injury)
Broken jaw plus lots of stiches (fell in playground)
Medial tear and cartilage damage (op)
Medial tear, cartilage damage and broken kneecap (op)
2 teeth knocked out
NOW FINISHED BEING A TEENAGER
Medial tear, ac rupture (big carbon fibre op) v. ouchy
Smashed wedding ring finger joint (pinned)
Dislocated AC Joint
Dislocated AC Joint with damaged shoulder tendon (v. ouchy)
Op to remove bursar (wound became infected, blood poisoning, week in hoospital)
3 broken ribs
lots of stiches
Broken scafoid (skiing)
Torn ankle ligaments (1 week in pot to stabalise) 4 months off sports
Achilles tendonitis (still ongoing)
Herniated disc in back
Most of the above were rugby injuries. We were coached poorly and did little prehab work. Only 1 porper ski injury (scafoid)
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
Ok, here we go:
Knelt on a needle, went through kneecap, broke in 2 and required 3 hr surgery to remove from the centre of joint (lounge floor injury) |
FTS....FFS....that sounds sodding unpleasant...ouch!
Cracked a small bone in my thumb following a car crash - rolled twice. Worst injury sustained out of the 3 of us!
Both rotator cuffs, both skiing.
Nowt else.
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Frosty the Snowman, blimey, it's a miracle you're still standing! I'm amazed you let the Frostlets play at all. Or, there again, perhaps that's why you became a coach - to make sure they, unlike you, were properly coached.
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I was unlucky with the knee injuries, the needle thing was aged 8 and I was never given any rehab physio until the last operation. Playing at a good level one will get injured and one has to accept that. So far Tom has missed one week 7 yts, josh has not been so lucky and missed 3 months last season with an ankle injury. People who suffer nasty injuries skiing usually don't give up.
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Broke right leg - tib and fib - motorcyle
Broke right shoulder - parachuting
Broke left wrist - cycling
Broke left elbow - cycling
Broke finger - sailing
Broke another finger - sailing
Broke rib - rugby
I dare not mention no breaks ski-ing.
John
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There were some x-rays done to try and find a hairline fracture in my toe (I kicked a lampost as a teenager). I think the outcome was that there was one, but nothing was done about it. Also in primary school I fell (or jumped) off a vaulting horse in the gym and landed on my chest (causing a lot of winding and bruising) but no bone breakages.
I have never broken anything more serious, although I have had quite a few falls on ice. Mostly muscular damage done.
My most serious rugby injury was a chipped front tooth and a pulled hamstring, both done in training sessions. (that is despite playing tight head prop, flanker, and full back at different stages in life) I no longer play, now being too old for that game. Someone once stamped on my forehead, causing a few stitches, but that was not serious. (it bleeds more there and so looks more serious than it was). The head stamper was called "skully", obviously by reputation!
I have banged the back of my head a couple of times in my life on ice. Once when very young, an ice-slide was made early in the morning by pouring water on the pavement. I slid down it, and banged the back of my head. This happened again when I was skiing in USA, down a double black diamond on my own which was very icy. In neither cases was I examined. I did feel a bit sick afterwards though, both times.
I wear a helmet now, whenever I know there will be ice on the slopes!
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Let me join in on the fun:
-Broken shoulder (Hit a tree limb)
- Broken Right Index and Middle Finger (Tried to break my fall awkwardly)
-Broken Ribs (Originally diagnosed by X-Ray Technician Jobs as bruised ribs)
- Torn ACL (Don't ask)
Seems like everyone on this thread is banged up. LOL
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gandolflundgren, welcome to 
Why dont ask on the ACL?
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NickyJ, yes, most common ski injury, I think, except for thumb. Count me in (plus medial).
Also had my leg cut open quite badly by broken cleat on dry ski slope.
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