Injuries. What's your story?

Mywifesirrational said:
Too many noobs posting! Lets get some lists going 16 broken bones and counting going to get cancer from all the xrays.

A break a lot less stuff now days that I am old and mature, although youyangs has claimed a few bones over the last few years.

x2 left clavicles
x1 femur
x1 fibula
x2 radius
x1 scaffiod
x1 phalange (feakin pinky)
x2 phalanged (toes - rock strike)
x2 dislocated phalanges
x1 dislocated patella
x2 ribs
x2 AC seperations (grades 2&3)
x1 lumbar vertibrae
x1 'cracked' tibia
x1 zygomatic / checkbone - bloody branch came through fullface.
x1 scapula

Also left a shit load of skin behind, been fun wouldn't change a thing.
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Femur is impressive! Usually they they only really happen in car accidents in healthy people. Must have done a good job of it!
 
Mitto68 said:
Over the bars off a jump a couple of weeks ago, cracked pelvis, cracked coccyx and cracked L5 vertebra.
Now lying on the couch bored out of my brain! Without a doubt the worst injury I have sustained since taking up mtb 2 years ago.
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I hear ya, am 3 months in from going over the bars 4 cracks in the old pelvis and a few ribs.
6 weeks in a wheelchair 3 on crutches.
Many long days on the couch and in bed.
Still having days on the couch, getting worn out very fast atm.

Take it easy, I have just had my first ride back, going to take a loooong time to be 100% again.
 
Ribs fracture
AC dislocation had surgery
Clavicle fracture
Face fractured
Strained fingers thumbs
Scarred elbows
Have become much more conservative with age.
 
Broken knee
broken wrist
2 x concussions
enough bark off to start a forest.

But of course, my worst injury, which I did 4 weeks ago, was snapping an achilles tendon. And I was nowhere near the bike when I did it. No, instead I was kicking a soccer ball around with my kid, took a step and it snapped like an old rubber band. 3 or 4 months to go before I'm back to normal, but I have at least taken my new Anthem (which I got two weeks before the injury) around the block on Saturday.

Also, non biking wise I've snapped a calf muscle and pulled ligaments of the other ankle, which I also broke when I was kid. So at 37 I have the lower limbs of an 80 year old. That's doing it right isn't it?
 
Collarbones - twice each, now they're titanium.
KO'd - went OTB when someone crashed in front of me and nowhere to go.
ACL complete tear right knee, now has Bungy cord there instead aka LARS Ligament.
All the above done racing my Supermoto over the last 5 years.

Just turned 40 and bought a Remedy 8 lets see what it brings.
 
been lucky, lost a bit of skin. worst one this stack onto rock, a couple of weeks ago. on or above the hip.
 

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Oh dear...I can't compete with that lambchop...You win.

The Gnome (rock feature) gave me a 71 last weekend...(that's my knee, not ballsack)

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Worst incident was just toodling along at a casual pace on a trail ride. Clipped a pedal on a rock, OTB'd, bike landed on top of my chest, hard. I knew I was in a bad way but had to walk out alone, thankfully down a gentle slope. Got driven to ED, walked in, nurse took one look at me and put me straight into the resuscitation cubicle. Passed out. First catscan showed broken 1st rib (apparently only happens in high speed motor vehicle accidents), broken shoulder, broken collar bone, broken sternum, numerous other broken ribs and a punctured and partially collapsed lung. Two more catscans later (yeah, three fkn catscans, grrr) and they still couldn't decide if I'd dissected my aorta. Had to wait four hours for another test while I contemplated the possibility of being helicoptered to another hospital for emergency open heart surgery or possibly dying while I waited. Did some serious soul searching imagining my 2 year old growing up without a Dad. Got the all clear, phew. A week lying in a hospital bed on drugs, 6 weeks at home on drugs.

Video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8rZh8CDBs8
 
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Mywifesirrational said:
Too many noobs posting! Lets get some lists going 16 broken bones and counting going to get cancer from all the xrays.

A break a lot less stuff now days that I am old and mature, although youyangs has claimed a few bones over the last few years.

x2 left clavicles
x1 femur
x1 fibula
x2 radius
x1 scaffiod
x1 phalange (feakin pinky)
x2 phalanged (toes - rock strike)
x2 dislocated phalanges
x1 dislocated patella
x2 ribs
x2 AC seperations (grades 2&3)
x1 lumbar vertibrae
x1 'cracked' tibia
x1 zygomatic / checkbone - bloody branch came through fullface.
x1 scapula

Also left a shit load of skin behind, been fun wouldn't change a thing.
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How did you break your scapula?
I landed on my elbow and broke mine through the spine.
It confused the docs at the time as there wasn't a mark on my shoulder
 
Jeffgre_6163 said:
A few years ago I was riding with group mates at Smithies in Cairns.
Amoung the group was a noob, a big strapping A type personality built like an AFL forward, super fit, just not an MTBer.
We came to the drop now known as Rodea drop on the world XC course. back then it was a vertical drop of 2 meters+ with a small transition at the bottom unlike the drop/roll off it is now. After getting some brief instruction said noob rolled off it only to have his weight to far rear ward so he looped out and landed on his back as he hit the transition. Nothing hurt except his pride.
A couple of weeks later the same group was riding the same loop. I must confess to not riding off that drop anymore at the time, quite frankly I did not like the feeling of dropping head down vertically before the transition so I took the B line.
As I head to the B line I see riders 1 and 2 drop off the edge and just catch the noob out of the corner of my eye as he heads off. A split second later follows a very nasty thump followed by cries of "oh shit"
When I get there noob is lying on his side barely conscious with his helmet split clean in half holding his neck.
This time he has had his weight to far forward and pole driven vertically head first in to the ground from 3.5 meters doing 20 kph
After he catches his breath he claims he is ok and just needs to rest and tells us to go on with the ride. He is clearly not ok. I offer to get my 4x4 in to pull him out, he refuses. We compromise and walk him back to the car park. By the time we get there he is barely conscious, in shock and just managing to shuffle every few steps before stopping.
His girlfriend comes out to take him home.
Two days later my mate rings to say he is in hospital with 9!! Yes 9 neck fractures.
Scary shit, still brings goose bumps thinking how close he came to death or paraplegia.
Our wives/girlfriends gave us shit for letting him walk out, and in retrospect it was wrong.
however, the guy who crashed was an emergency medicine specialist at Cairns Base hospital and one of the other riders was also a doctor. My self ( a cabinetmaker) and my mate (a chippie) hardly felt we could contradict them.
He made a full recovery but ever since I have never ever tried to encourage any rider with me to attempt anything they remotely baulk at.
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Scarily, I think I rode that line and didn't stack.... That is a lot of spinal fractures.

Thankfully not too many busted bones for me, just bark. Trick is not to get xrayed unless it's flopping about, then you don't know it's broken :) (rib and arm un-treated by this Darwinian method) Have had some mighty chunks taken out, mostly limbs but arse cheeks occasionally.
 
Fractured vertebrae after going over the bars and trying to dig my head into the dirt.
Scared me when I was told that if my neck would've bent in the other direction I'd have been a quadriplegic, so much so that I stayed off a bike for a few years.
 
slippy said:
Worst incident was just toodling along at a casual pace on a trail ride. Clipped a pedal on a rock, OTB'd, bike landed on top of my chest, hard. I knew I was in a bad way but had to walk out alone, thankfully down a gentle slope. Got driven to ED, walked in, nurse took one look at me and put me straight into the resuscitation cubicle. Passed out. First catscan showed broken 1st rib (apparently only happens in high speed motor vehicle accidents), broken shoulder, broken collar bone, broken sternum, numerous other broken ribs and a punctured and partially collapsed lung. Two more catscans later (yeah, three fkn catscans, grrr) and they still couldn't decide if I'd dissected my aorta. Had to wait four hours for another test while I contemplated the possibility of being helicoptered to another hospital for emergency open heart surgery or possibly dying while I waited. Did some serious soul searching imagining my 2 year old growing up without a Dad. Got the all clear, phew. A week lying in a hospital bed on drugs, 6 weeks at home on drugs.

Video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8rZh8CDBs8
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That groan sounds like your laying an ostrich egg. Good effort to walk your bike out after all those injuries
 
Update on my weekend stack... Getting sorer, bit more swollen, bit of groin pain. Level with me, I've got spinabiffeda, right? :pout:
 

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