injury list

[freerider4ever]

Could other people tell me how many injuries/what type of injuries they have had over the past two years? Thanks.

[Tom]

dislocated shoulder
lots of bruises

[Lady Gravity]

dislocated collarbone
fractured shoulder
broken finger (which healed crooked)
torn ligaments
muscle hematoma
sprained ankle (several times)
plus various other bruises, scrapes and muscle injuries

[ShoreIH]

Broken Wrist,Ripped Tendons,Fractured Kneecap. Countless tweaks,twists,and sprains.

[mattj]

from biking:

broken clavicle
badly sprained ankle (6 week recovery)
been pretty good for the last two years, but going back I've had 2 concussions, a fractured scapula, broken teeth, and a lot of bruises...

other:

torn ACL


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[stubz]

broken collarbone
stretched ligament in my shouder
torn ligament in my knee
and many many chunks of flesh taken out of my body

[LIPS]

Separated shoulder third run of my only day at Whistler last summer. I think the latter hurt more!

[Keefer]

A bajillion sprained/tweaked wrists, thumbs, fingers, ankles.
Stitches 6 occasions for a total of 44.
Sperated shoulder (2nd degree)
Countless numbers of cuts scrapes and bruises
Broken thumb
Broken elbow

[~NSP~]

Broken elbow
Loads of gashes/ large cuts
Many sprains on my ankles only
Torn ligament in ankle
Streched ligament in ankle
2 Moderate concussions, 4 minor
Dislocated Jaw

[Professor Frink]

Nothing other than some scrapes/cuts:S

[Jaysin]

lotsa scrapes and bruises

56 staples in my leg

[Hack On Wheels]

just a sprained wrist and a very mild concussion

[Nick2468]

broken wrist
cracked growth plate in left wrist 2 times and 1 time in right wrist

[biking_cam]

Torn ACL
Broken Collrbone
sprained wrist
sprained ankle (like 1000)

[1994canucks]

I'm curious to know who wish they were wearing armour! And who does now because of a serious accident? :idea:

[Aircorp]

strains, sprains, cuts, bruises and a bruised kidney. thats about it, I've gotten off lucky so far.

[LOBOTIDULATOR]

torn shoulderblade muscle
both growplates in wrists cracked
missing lots of arm skin resulting in long armscar
broken fingers
serious head injurys

[Hip Hop!]

torn shoulderblade muscle
both growplates in wrists cracked
missing lots of arm skin resulting in long armscar
broken fingers
serious head injurys

haha how could you forget to include breaking both elbows at the same time?

[LOBOTIDULATOR]

oh yea i broke both my elbows, wore 2 slings at once

[apeshape]

Broken collarbone
Dislocated shoulder(reoccurring injury)
Broken Wrist(left)
Broken hand (right)
3 Broken ribs
2 Mild concussions
and a partridge in a pear tree of lil cuts and bruises.

When I grow up I'm going to be arthritic!

I've been hurt so many times over the last 31 years that I wouldn't feel right unless some part of me was aching. I tore out both my knees ski racing when I was 16 and I sound like a bowl o' rice krispies whenever I walk up a flight of stairs. If you play, you'll pay(eventually) is the way I look at it and I don't regret a second of it.

[Midas]

Broken Knuckles
Broken Ribs/ bruised lungs

[Ari_243]

no offence but i think this is a really stupid thread, when i read it, it doesn't inspire me to ride very much, lets keep our injuries to ourselfs

[freerider4ever]

I was just curious what happens to other dhers, thats all. BTW I have a 661 assault jacket, would it really be THAT much better if I got a dainese jacket for my birthday? I was thinking about it, only if it offers THAT much more protection over the 661 though.

[Nelson]

Broken Elbow
Broken/Bruised Ribs
5 stitches to the knee

[biking_cam]

i started wearing hoots body armour after my injuries.. nothing big since

[klankilla]

i went down hard in the bikercross in the end of May.

fractured 2 vertebrae in my back
cracked a rib
broke my clavicle
lots of bruising
smashed my new mad max2

i was wearing a full dainanese suit with spine protector.
im lucky considering.

[tuck3r]

broken fingers
chipped elbows
some stitches
cuts, scrapes, bruises, sprains

nothing serious

[Battlecat]

Sounds like you guys need to learn how to ride your bike:lol:

j/k

I have been pretty lucky and have never seriously injured myself biking. I have only gotten a hair line fracture on the phibia from skiing which was about 3 years ago.

hopefully i will have another injury free year, knock on wood

[SEKTER13]

I have also been pretty lucky. Lots of bruises spraigns and gashs, but no broken bones or really major things. The worst ive done was actually while building a trail, was dark and a bucksaw skipped onto my hand, severed the two ligiments to my index finger and cut into the bone, was pretty nasty, the plastic surgeon did a good job putting it all back together though. Its not as good as it was before, movement is probally 5% less, but hey thats how it goes sometimes.

[DaveM]

Sprained MCL (twice)
Torn ACL
Torn Meniscus
Dislocated elbow

I always wear armour. I'm confident there would have been many more serious injuries without it.

[Wayne P]

Nothing in 5 years, other than some scrapes and knocks. Separated shoulder was my only real injury on the bike. I try to stay within my limits. Maybe that's why I suck.

[Straw]

I'm intact. I wear full armour all the time too.

[Danny K]

Broken/Bruised Ribs
Multiple Concussions
Broken Wrist
Broken Finger

Besides a whole lot of brusises and cuts and shit, nothing else.

[Smoke]

Ya know, if the purpose of this thread is to make your parents feel better about your riding habit, I think it may be having the opposite effect.

[Farmer]

fractured pelvis, alot of skin taken off my shins my my pedals slipping and scrapes & bruses

[Rosscofat]

seperated AC joint that b it.. succckaas

[RITALIN]

broken collarbone
sprained finger

thats abotu it
well theres always some blood or sumtin after a crash

[freerider4ever]

Nope, definitely not showing this thread to my parents and I don't plan on it. I was just curious what happens to other dh riders.

[Lady Gravity]

Nothing in 5 years, other than some scrapes and knocks. Separated shoulder was my only real injury on the bike. I try to stay within my limits. Maybe that's why I suck.

ha
i try to stay within my limits, and i suck, but you dont progress without pushing the envelope, and they do call them "accidents" for a reason.

[Shocker]

haha how could you forget to include breaking both elbows at the same time?


oh goddd, that was him at loutet that day???

[Rampager]

-Broken nose
-Broken kneecap (patella) which required 16 staples after reconstructive surgery with wires and pins :)

[JSinclair]

Broken Left thumb
Broken left Elbow
Broken Left Humorous (Big arm bone that attaches to the shoulder)
Six stitches in my right knee
sprined Left ankle
Broken right toe

Scrapes and bruises.

[Kevin26]

in 2002 i broke my arm really bad and knocked myself out for a bit, and close to a year ago I barely broke my collarbone

[KHansen]

Lets see....

-broke a part of my femur off (surgery).
-ripped ACL off the bone (surgery).
-broke 4 bones in my foot.
-broke my arm.
-broke my hand in 2 places and got some pretty sweet pins (surgery).
-broke my wrist in 4 places and had a big 'ol surgery including bone grafts and screws. Back on the 'ol bike in 1 week!!!! woooo!
-1 really bad concussion.

.....and prob lots of random fractures that i thought were just really bad sprains that i just iced.

[Marsenault]

concussion,
cracked a chunk off of my pelvis,
broken finger,
cut my tendons in my finger,
bruised ribs,
bruised kidneys w/internal bleeding.
torn muscles in shoulder,
fractured wrist.

[stillgoing]

Both wrists sprained (at different times)
Misc minor sprains.
many bruises.
torn a$$hole. (from my wife chewing me out for riding too much.)
otherwise, pretty luck so far. Maybe I just take the progression thing slowly. or I'm licky. Or I'm a wimp. ;)

[myster chron]

haha this is quite the thread.. haha i proally fit right in the middle here sumwheres with my
4 broken fingers in one crash
3complete breaks of fib and tib- 5 fractures- 1 crash
cracked my monster t and sprained my ankle - 1 crash
fractured elbow- manualing at 60 trying to flip buddy off
haha ive lost track of my concussions... i know i have at least 3 moderates 2 severes (class 3) and almost uncountable class 1's *worst one- head first into bulldozer at 30 klicks)
broken pinky finger and 4 fractured ribs- night riding crash - head first into tree knocked myself out almost chest hit a stump and finger got caught in the bike sumhow
almost every inch of my body's gone through roadrash and gashes
im up to about 175 stitches in the last 4 years
lost vision for 3 weeks due to my craptacular rst blowin up in my face
bunny hoppin a curb gap on bmx... dislocate collerbone- broken shoulderblade



and these r jsut the ones from biking.. im not even countin putting my truck into 3 major pices..myself gettin tosed close to 30 meters out of the truck - whiplash sever concusion- 11 stitches
trying to 360 a dirt bike- concusion and sever muffler burn to my hamstring- burnt a 1/2 inch deep 3 inch diamiter patch
60 miles shoudler first into a tree with dirtbike- severly dislocated coolerbone
trying to slide down a stair set in the laundry basket. broken wrist
countles sprains and bruises

haha the emergency room staff knows me on first name basis and the cast guy alwasy remebers me to

[LOBOTIDULATOR]

oh goddd, that was him at loutet that day???
never been to loutet, soooo id say that wasnt me

[baloom]

T4 and T5 Vertebrae compression fractures and mild concussion (Aug 03)
torn collateral ankle ligaments
fractured sternum
T4, T5 vertebrae burst fracture (and some temporary paralysis) and T11 compression fracture (April 05)

All injuries were while wearing full armour and all occured while riding well within my limits (I think that if I was bareback with a little skid lid during any of my accidents, I would be long dead by now).....you might argue that these weren't just accidents but as a result of me sucking real bad.....that assumption wouldn't hurt my feelings.....

[MrPrime]

I just broke my collar bone last nite. anyone else done this dirty devil too?

[apeshape]

I just broke my collar bone last nite. anyone else done this dirty devil too?

I broke mine 5-6 weeks ago. Leave it in the sling, I had a set back about 10 days after the fact(second displacement, ouch!) because I didn't which set me back 2 weeks of pain. Just last week I was able to start hitting the gym and able to do some light pool stuff.

[Jass]

Bruised ribs and riptured my spleen september 2003. I had my body-armor, it helped a lot (otherwise my shoulder would also be wrecked up) but it didn't spare my spleen.

[ghostrider]

That's alot of busted bones/fingers/collarbones/knees/elbows/back vertabrae etc...

All i've ever bruised really badly is my ego when i fall over/fall off, because it's usually something really stupid like locking the front brake and going over the bars or something like that.

At least once a year it happens....

[NickS]

only a bad concussion geting knocked out for a couple minuets

[thom9719]

Hyper extended knee

torn ACL

Crushed Miniscus

damage to a posterior artierie in my leg

Broken 5th metacarple

internally spilt my hand between 2nd and 3rd metacarpal

(doctors ended up re-breaking my hand in a later surgury)

a few stitches in my chin

approximatly 2 sqare feet of scabs on my body (rough estimate :D)

sprained both wrists twice

sprained left ankle

internal bleeding from impailing on handlebar

scar tissue and slight muscule damage from H-bar incident

2 concusions

brusied ribs

many pulled muscles,

small chip out of left shin

multiple cuts, scrapes and bruises

I think that is about it, It sounds worse than it really was.

Kyle,

[SEKTER13]

trying to slide down a stair set in the laundry basket. broken wrist lol, you deserved that one, thats one crazy list.....your cheating death by the sounds of it.

[DERT]

- broken petella (knee cap)
- Plenty of rolled and sprained ankles
- bruised kidney
- fractured thumb
- lots of pulled muscles
- few sprained wrists
- couple broken ribs

[thewalrus]

Could other people tell me how many injuries/what type of injuries they have had over the past two years? Thanks.

One eight-stitch gouge directly on my chin, from road biking, not mountain. tried to take a wet corner on painted concrete too fast and slid out.

[Viper55]

I feel pretty lame as I only have a bunch of scraps and bruises from not wearing my pads (like repostioning them when they slide down a little.

Maybe I am just not going hard enough.

[KHansen]

holy crap so many torn ACL's...

[myster chron]

holy crap so many torn ACL's...


haha let me guess the reason for that one--- no stretching before riding a hardtail or big dually with the seat slammed down for hours on end repedativly a whole summmer long almost day in and day out. that's how i see the trend off acl fuck ups around my area anyway..... and with a list liek mine u gotta think man.. if hes made it i wonder what kinda shit hsi friends been throu lol. ive jsut a bout seen it or done it all in my almost 13 years of wipping out

[Jay T.]

snapped collarbone, dislocated shoulder, same shoulder same time lol, torn acl, popped my hip out, couple of broken fingers and tows, major ownage by pedals on my knee, two broken noses, one major concussion, two minor, oh ya and my face was one big scab....kinda makes me wonder why i even bother riding, i am gonna be in so much pain when i am older

[Jay T.]

oh ya and i broke three little bones in my foot but that wasnt super bad, just was off for a few weeks

[MrPrime]

I broke mine 5-6 weeks ago. Leave it in the sling, I had a set back about 10 days after the fact(second displacement, ouch!) because I didn't which set me back 2 weeks of pain. Just last week I was able to start hitting the gym and able to do some light pool stuff.

crazyness man, cause when I was sitting (more curled in a ball) they told me they wernt going to do anything, and its odd cause im not using as much pain killers ATM as they say I should...and it doesnt hurt when i dont have it in a sling...

Mighty confusing I must say :stupid: :dizzy:

[KING-OF E-VILLE]

Many sprains on my ankles only
Torn ligament in ankle
Streched ligament in ankle


That's why hard tails don't rule...

[1994canucks]

This post is bad luck! I broke my ankle this weekend after reading it!

[Knnn]

I feel sick ........

[Knnn]

OK ... based on the significant level of wipeout experience and horrific levels of carnage most clearly demonstrated here, I need some recommendations for good body armour.

I currently have Bestgear leg and arm armour only, but I definitely feel the need for some extra protection .... (was that the purpose of the thread?)

Thank you.

[1994canucks]

I don't know about you but in light of my recent injury I'm getting ankle gaurds

[mint]

Went for a chill ride at oak -- and broke my collar bone and got a minor concussion. All this a month after I broke my finger. Now I will surely rest for a while.

[Emily]

I got the best injury ever this weekend! After flying gracefully over my handlebars and boobplanting a rock on gillard, I now have one purple boob! hahaha

[inshane]

danny and i never get hurt!

[KING-OF E-VILLE]

I got the best injury ever this weekend! After flying gracefully over my handlebars and boobplanting a rock on gillard, I now have one purple boob! hahaha

This thred is useless with out pics..


come on Emily, we know you have pictures.....

[biggles604]

The only two injuries that put me out in the last two years were a fractured metacarpal (the longer bone in the hand) and after trying to avoid someone standing in the landing zone of a drop in the woodlot, I faceplanted hard, collapsed the front of my Bell full face and shattered three teeth and bit clean through my tongue. 4 trips to the dentist to fix it, and 3 weeks of liquid diet, and I was good as new.

[Hip Hop!]

i destroyed my ankle on june 25th. probably wont be riding until next year:(:(

other injuries: broken left wrist a while ago and collarbone lastr year on the last day of school.

[Sgt. Pepper]

broken wrist and numerouse sprains and cuts