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a response to the thread I started on 'how long should skis last' has given rise to this new thought...

my tally:

- left knee cruciate ligament (road traffic accident)
- left kneee cruciate ligament (again - skiing)
- right collar bone and ac partial separation left shoulder (mountain bike accident)
- small toe (broke it on a bed leg - gives me the honour of joining Joe Simpson, who did the same thing)
- broken back (c2 wedge fracture - stable - (hit by motorbike when I was going through a green light on my bike - central london)
- total ac ligament separation right shoulder - ie grade3 separation (same accident as above)
- left elbow dislocation (climbing fall)

bad tally, but seems skiing is not so much to blame really...
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Mrs jbob found out this week she has a broken shoulder. The fall was six weeks ago!
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Sub chondral fracture (right knee)
MCL rupture (right knee)
ACL ruptue (right knee)
2x medial meniscus (right knee)
lateral meniscus (right knee)
medial meniscus (left knee)
2x broken thumbs (left and right)
ankle ligaments (right ankle)

ACL op last night Very Happy All skiing
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Broken ribs x2 (go karting crash)
Broken fingers on three separate occasions (rounders at school, motorbike incident, sash window incident)
Dislocated thumb (the motorcycle incident that claimed two fingers)
Broken radius, ulna and scaphoid (mountain bike versus tree incident)

As for skiing, not even so much as a bruise! Very Happy
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jjc, and who said racing was dangerous Toofy Grin

hope you have some strong pills for the next couple of weeks Very Happy
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broken nose (falling over as small child running down lino hallway in socks!)
broken left arm twice (once playing rounders, once falling off a horse)
broken right wrist (skiing)
MCL sprains and chronic tendinopathy in both knees (skiing - I know not technically broken but caused more issues than the broken bones!!)
meniscus tears in both knees (skiing)

and lots of sprained/strained wrists, thumbs, fingers from skiing!
Also very good at spraining ankles......(not skiing obviously wink )

hmmm, maybe I should go and lie in a bed of cotton wool....... Toofy Grin
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Broken Leg (Skiing as an 11 year old in Zurs, blamed on leash that predated ski brakes!)
Broken Collar bone (Retrieving football fom a patch of Ice)
Broken collar bone ( Falling off moped)
Broken Ribs x2 (Cresta Run)
Broken Fingers (Hockey)
Broken Cheek bone (Hockey)
Broken Toes (Random!)
Broken Collar bone (Hockey)
60 stiches in Leg (Pirates in Gym as 12 yr old)

So all in all accident prone!
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Broken nose (rugby)
Broken wrist (rugby)
Slipped disk (rugby)
Broken jaw (mugging)
4 teeth smashed (same mugging)
Broken ribs x 2 (skiing)
Dislocated shoulder (football)
ACL Grade 3 - currently recovering (skiing)

As you can probably tell, I'm quite the pretty boy.
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Seems that my lazy back bottom approach to life has saved me a fair bit of pain so far... Of course a heart attack is probably coming along soon.
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Been pretty lucky (touch wood)

Shinbone / Tibia hairline fracture (Skiing)
Knee side ligament (LCL) streched (Skiing same accident as above)
Separated Shoulder - Type 2 (Mountain Bike accident)
Broken Ribs (from boxing)
Broken Hand (hitting older Brother during a dispute)
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broken little fingers - matching pair (separate motorcycle accidents)
broken nose (surfing)
snapped tooth (surfing)

that's it really - don't tend to get hurt much.
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Broken arm (fell off fence watching a top dressing plane fly over head)
Broken arm (sheep knocked me off fence)
Broken arm (horse accident this time bone popped out)
Broken back (3 vertebrae riding horses back v horse's knee, horse's knee 1 back 0)
Broken ankle (rugby)
Broken nose (contact with railway sleeper)
Cracked skull (skiing)


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broken heart (Katie Brookes, school disco, 1982)
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Guvnor, and here's me thinking you'd be the heart breaker Toofy Grin
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Guvnor, Laughing Laughing Laughing
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I've been remarkably lucky in my 50 years,

Several broken teeth (high speed collision with wall as a child)
Broken finger (Potholing accident)
Broken toe (Falling down stairs)
Shoulder rotator cuff damage (Skiing, last year)


Looks like I'm due a big one Shocked
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Guvnor, Laughing Laughing Laughing
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Badly Sprained Credit Card - half term week - Tignes 2011
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ive broken wind..
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I've only (thankfully) had the one, fractured radius learning to board in a snowdome.
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20 years of falling down mountains not so much as a scratch, skiing without doubt the saftest sport known to man Smile
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Thankfully I have only ruptured my ACL once, and cracked a rib skiing (different times and rib wasn't actually skiing it was being pushed over getting on the cable car at Zermat - it was the bindings on the pesky snowboard of the person who push me that did the damage).

I have also torn my medial meniscus cartilidge but that was just painting the decking, and still isn't right and meant my skiing was severly limited when we went in December.

Absolutely nothing to some of you. My hats of to you.
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adie, I've never had any problems skiing, as soon as I got near a board I'd never suffered so much pain! Never again I'll stick with the planks.
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I laughed my head off once...or twice.
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Forgot about the broken nose and jaw incident. Ouchie!
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nose, 2 snapped ribs, fingers/thumb, feet/toes, arm, lots of vertebrae … do two perforated ear drums count ? nothing broken whilst snowboarding except my spirit whilst learning Very Happy
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Repeatedly broken nose - first one was a stupid fight as a kid, one skiing, one hockey, and a couple more punches after that. Mostly from girls, strangely.

Pulled some ligaments in my knee after a fairly nasty fall as a teenager on a ski trip. Never really recovered to original strength, still a bit weak when twisted.

Broken ball in shoulder joint. Put a crack straight across the top, without breaking it off (which you normally would). Hospital was all set for sending me home before I argued the toss a bit. Caused by a very drunk 25 stone American friend "just playing" when we were drunk. We carried on drinking for a few hours before realising something was quite wrong the next day.

Took a whole lot of skin off falling off a motorbike years ago, but managed not to break anything despite the bike and the two mates on the back landing on top of me, none of us had helmets on. Burned my leg a bit on the exhaust.

Otherwise no major damage really. I broke a glass full of water this morning after arriving at someone else's desk in a different office for the day and being deliriously tired when I arrived, sending it flying within seconds of walking in.
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Oh, it's other than skiing.

Broken leg twice, 4 x shoulder dislocations, umpteen dislocated and broken fingers, dislocated ankle, prolapsed disc at L3, 2 x broken nose and sprung collar bone.

Too many pulled muscles and damaged ligaments to mention.
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What do you all do to yourselves Shocked . I might have broken a finger once but I've never been really sure....
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holidayloverxx, play hard Toofy Grin...........................and keep the physio in employment Sad
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holidayloverxx, rugby, mountain biking and skiing.
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Broken ribs x2 (go karting crash)


Yep karting can be dangerous. Many years ago a group of us from work went go karting one evening. In spite of the people operating the circuit telling the drivers if they spun off to stay seated and the staff would get them back on the track, one guy who spun off decided to stand up rolling eyes . Just then another kart bashed into the back of his cart, causing the guy to impact the steering wheel of his kart in the region of his wedding tackle! Shocked I think he got carted off to hospital Skullie
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Dot., You seem to sit on a lot of fences !! Laughing Laughing

Other than that you are all a brave lot, I am well impressed.

I found pain hurts and tended to avoid it, despite having loads of falls & cashes whilst moped, sidecar & motorbike racing, on & off road & in the desert, as well as all the usual reprobate mucking about in various 3 wheelers, cars, vans & m/bikes with mates when younger and now skiing.... Short list really:

Broken collar bone, & several bones in left hand (car cut across me on m/bike)
Broken 3rd finger on left hand (car pulling out in front of me...on m/bike).

Makes me feel a bit of a whimpy safe old couch potato really... rolling eyes rolling eyes

Noisey
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Left+right collarbone i have the matching set.
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Broken Scaphoid - Right wrist (riding a fixie before it was trendy) and again 2 months later (football)
Broken ankle 1982- Accepting the challenge of a balletic woman 5ft10 high to see how high I could leave a foot print on a wall - I plead drunk.
Blown third of gastrocnemius 2001 - Bumps at Jackson Hole
Broken Left rib - Skiing 2005 - Engelberg
Broken ribs 2010 - RTA
Probably Broken right rib (probable) S8BB this year - alcohol kept it at bay - but hell once I sobered up on the way home from Gatwick.
Head injury (with traumatic seizure) and broken nose 8 weeks ago - MTBing
Broken Left rib (I think the same one as 2005) 6 days ago on a piddling stupid descent.

Total missed days skiing - 1 1/2 due to 2005 rib, one day due to knee sprain in JH in 1994 One day of dysentery in Aspen in 1991.

However on a SCGB holiday this year I survived even though we had 3 people from the group in hospital at once - two requiring orthopaedic surgery, and the other heli-lifted off the hill with a ?? Heart attack... snowHead
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stoat of the dead, that's some list.

This is turning into a game of Top trumps. Perhaps I should get the OH to join in.
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1 smashed ankle, 3 pins and now some arthritis (hitting the end of a very well made Cheshire dry stone wall in a Mk1 escort)
1 slashed knee( 11 years old BMX racing, " no dad, I'm not wearing the knee pads they slow me down")
Both bones in right fore arm, resulting in one very good looking dangleing arm.
Gash in head(falling through glass coffee table when 3yrs old)

All in all, managed to get to 42 without that many injuries
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Also, just had a thought.
How many of you declare all these previous injuries/operations etc for various insurances.
I know I don't declare the ankle.
I know this thought would normally be the job of Achilles.

Thought number two,
OMG I'm getting sensible.

Just figured out how to fix me, off to my local bike park tomorrow to ride off some 10 foot drops, that will sort me out Twisted Evil
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Me

- Broken wrist (footy)
- Broken ankle (gardening Shocked )
- Broken finger (skiing)
- Broken finger (hiking)
- Broken thumb (mountain biking)

Mrs B

6 stitches in an elbow wound (dry slope)
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Broken R ankle orienteering.
Broken rib playing water polo.
Several busted knuckles playing water polo.
Broken R collar bone, cycling
Broken rib manchester velodrome.
Torn medial ligament R knee skiing
2 broken ribs skiing
Broken R collar bone (again) manchester velodrome

All insignificant when compared to my mate who was knocked of his bike breaking his back (L1,2+3). Then 2 years later came off again and did his neck (C1,2+3). Unstable in both cases and he got away with it. With his neck we drove 60miles home with it then decided to call at A+E to be safe as it was a bit stiff. I'll never forget the looks from the staff when they saw the x-rays.
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