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cheers ton - thanks 🙂 . Now about that 'niche' electric bike you were selling...
Right wrist has never recovered from this BMX inflicted injury 11 years ago, minimal movement and numb most mornings
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Left shoulder has some long term damage and brain is kept sane by pills but other wise not bad for a man of my age : )
Some good ones in here... I'm in pretty fair shape, the busted hip and knee give me some bother and quite a lot of pain sometimes but it doesn't stop me doing what I want. The osteoperosis gets me from time to time, but I wear my pads almost all the time and that reduces the problem, just pick up the occasional break when I probably shouldn't. Can't grumble really, overall I'm fitter than I've ever been in my life and it's mostly because of the big break.
I finished 6 weeks of Radio & Chemotherapy last week, I've lost over a stone & a half, and I'm feeling pretty weak, but the Quantocks are calling me. 😐
Well done Dibbs, I've been off the bike for 6 weeks with a broken wrist and that's put my moping in perspective.
Get up there with someone to tow you home if necessary. Give it a few weeks back in the saddle and you'll be a climbing machine 🙂
good luck Dibbs. 😀
All the best dibbs
Well done Dibbs, it's good to see the drive still there.
FairPlay leffeboy & dibbs.
Hope it goes well for you leffeboy and dibbs
I will MTFU
Where do i start!
Type 1 Diabetic from birth
2 screws holding right elbow together
Left tibia nail from knee to ankle through centre!
Currently have both shoulders in varying stages of frozenness
Recent lazer surgery on right eye
and tinitis!!
other than that lot perfectly fit and healthy....... for a slightly unfit 35yo fat knacker!!
I have Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome which means my feet and hands are bolloxed.
A tendency to dislocate kneecaps due to above.
marked arthritis in my left hand..
..oh, and ive just dislocated my right shoulder an hour ago!
Dibbs how was it? I start mine on Monday 🙁 making the most of this week by fitting as many rides in as I can.
Other than the tumour the rest of my body is holding together well 🙂
Holy Moly, I thought I was knackered but I'm spot on compared to you lot!
Knees are goosed, probly due to kneeling on concrete floors when I was a mechanic. Both wrists ache on rides. Had a cataract op last year & the other one's nearly ready (+ I've got an eye infection now). Feet & ankles ache If I walk far. Teeth are crumbling. Landed on me head on Good Friday & still suffering. & I'm only 56.
Good on Leffeboy & Dibbs!
2crushed vertebrae discovered then Osteoporosis diagnosed .Specialist told me to stop riding off road as that was too jarring for my back .He suggested instead to take up jogging especially on concrete as the direct impact would help load the bones in my spine ! 😯 My GP told me to carry on but be careful . Since then I've done a season in Whistler (that's being careful!) Last bone density scan showed a 27 %. improvement in the density of my spine !!!! So much for the experts ? 57 btw
Wrists aren't great (due to 29 years of biking since my first BMX, not any other kind of wrist action... honest 😳 ).
Smashed front teeth from a ground-sky-ground crash probably renders me undateable.
Wouldn't change a thing. Can't imagine a life without bikes. 8)
Edit: all the best to those on here who are dealing with [i]real[/i] problems. Good luck to ya.
I'm ok actually, well I say ok what I mean is rather good. But I do suffer from piles on occasion, too much straining and training hard it seems..
2 displaced vertebrae in my neck from an old rugby injury
torn cartelege in my right knee
blown synovial capsule in left knee
planar fasciitis in right foot
and i go in to hospital tomorrow to get 2 ligaments fixed (hopfully) in my left wrist...
seems slight inconsequential to some.... good luck to everyone
Deejay......fingers are crossed for you mate.
hope everything goes well for you.
Smashed tib and fib many years ago which left me with one leg shorter than the other.
Right hip resurfacing due to right leg bieng shorter than the other.
Backs knackered knees shot but still doing 40-50 miles a week offroad and did the c2c last year frequent visits to the pub helps 😆
Ton - cheers - hopefully mine can be got rid off - you, unfortunately, seem stuck with yours
I'm one of the lucky ones - diagnosed 8 years ago but been in remission ever since the first op. Managed to get it very, very early. Ton, Deejay & Dibbs - all the best to you - will be thinking of you.
More routine stuff includes collapsed arches, slightly dodgy knees, shoulder impingement on left side and managed an OTB incident yesterday so right shoulder and right ribs are very badly bruised but thankfully nothing broken. There's a few other niggles that aren't worth mentioning. Oh, apart from picking up some varifocals so I can at least read the date on my watch!
I'm a very lucky 43 yrs old.
Ruptured lateral colateral and anterior cruciate knee ligament and fractured patella ended my Army career. Currently awaiting results of mri scan to check above ligaments and lateral meniscus.
Fractured collarbone aged 16 hit a tree on mountain bike.
Abdominal muscle weakness so prone to Hernias.
Hypertension
Overactive Thyroid
Heart murmer
And I'm only 27
leffeboy good luck with that, hope you get back on soon as.
I have had a good time compared to some, i have viral arthritis i inject drugs to attempto keep it at bay failing that i take enough drugs to keep our local GP on their toes
yesterday i had a injection into my achilles and another into my toe box.
oh and i broke my arm a while ago thanks to a tree jumping into my spokes.
The doctors have stop telling me to take it easy these days 😉
Just about getting over my recent bout of injuries. AC seperated left shoulder now 100%. Frozen right shoulder almost better after 2 years of trouble. Sciatica much better than it was thank goodness and injured right knee feels much better than it did this time last year. Maybe there is hope? Mid thirties and counting 🙂
Ganglion cyst in my left wrist. Hurts like hell sometimes then fine other times. 2 years later I've still got it, really should sort that one!
I get a few niggles in the cold and damp in my elbows but considering the damage I did to them from going over a jump and landing on my hands I shouldn't complain. In summary I dislocated and broke both elbows cleanly snapping off the radial heads off the bones, and tearing on all the ligaments. I'm told I'm lucky still to have use of my arms, and that I would never straighten them or have much roation in them again.
My elbows nearly fully healed, are straight and have near full rotation. I still ride on....I just don't jump anymore.
**** me you lot make me feel better about my aches and pains!
I have a list of ongoing aches and pains..
Right shoulder keeps dislocating.. Surgery required
Left shoulder aches from compensating for right shoulder
Both knees ****ed.. Click, grind, lock and ache every day
Lower back pretty much seizes up in the cold due to 3 operations and mega scar tissue.. Makes winter riding near impossible
Right wrist is weak due to getting tomahawked while playing ice hockey.
Numbness in both hands and forearms when cycling.. Tried new grips, gloves and changing riding position..
Chronic sinusitis which restricts oxygen intake through the nose, feels like I'm suffocation on a ride if its a bad day.
Think that's it for now. Only 31 aswell!
Never broken a bone yet tho.. Touch wood.
I had to have an Ileostomy last year which has herniated somewhat and my right shoulder is knackered due to a kind lady driving into me at a roundabout in 2007.
Don't let any of it stop me riding though 🙂
Cheers
Danny B
Well now where to start...
Plantar Faschitis
Shin Splints
Stress fractures
Three cartlidge ops
They are the main running injuries.
A partly dislocated shoulder, from doing dips at circuit training.
Trapped nerve in L4 vertebrae, no reflex in right leg for 6 weeks or so, took about 8 months to be properly right, its only when you cant sit down that you take it for granted that you can.
No real cycling injuries to speak of, played squash for years and only ever pulled one muscle, perhaps this is telling me something....
I've got a very slightly sore knee, but that will probably go by the weekend. Nothing else.
32 years old, sport 5+ days a week since the year dot.
Touch wood.
Had major surgery this afternoon so I suppose I'm feeling pretty broke!! 🙂
Rachel
And you're back online already - respect
And best wishes for a super speedy recovery
Thanks. 🙂
Rachel
get well soon Rachel.... 😀
Had a fall on a snowboard 4 weeks ago, left knee popped out of joint whilst falling and then popped back in before i settled. got up and carried on boarding and put a knee brace on for the next 3 days. all was fine until last weekend when launching myself of drops on my bike i upset said knee again! it hasnt stopped making itself known since, off to docs asap.
Where to start?
Knees. Creaking and groaning and probably torn cartilage in at least the right one.
Elbows. See above
Abs. At least one is ruined thanks to wakeboarding
Fingers. Sore joints, don't work well in the cold.
I feel old.
Just read some of the other replys above mine, forget what i said, its nothing lol
Got a split in my thumb that's quite sore, it may affect my shifting at the weekend if still open
Feel pretty ****ed compared to 10 yrs ago when i didn't bother working but just rode my bike all day and all i had to worry bout was keeping fit, ergo i was pretty fit n' healthy and nae pain or worries. A car accident caused this damage back in 1991, mostly spinal and i was paraplegic for 5 weeks till one neurosurgeon thought "what the hell - you're ****ed anyway so i'll go in to your spine and see what i can do if you'll let me". Glad he did as i regained movement and walked out of the spinal unit 4 months later.
Two vertebrae removed, along wi 4 ribs and bits of bone removed from spinal cord, most of the others have been fused together with titanium rods (hartman loop), 4 inches shorter in the spine than what i should be, sciatic nerve along with spinal pain/spasms is EEEEK! at times, intestinal tract is reduced (surgery), stomach is reduced (surgery) , kidneys work to a certain degree, bladder n' bowel control is ?........ circulation is borked, standing up all day at work leads to odema and fluid build up at base of spine which presses on spinal nerves, so i hang upside down on a tilt table every night for an hr to help matters, if i work during the day i'm too ****ed/legs swollen/pain etc to ride my bike at night, if i ride my bike during the day i feel great due to non-impact activity but that doesn't pay the bills so i have to work during the day to pay bills ergo i'm too ****ed to ride or exercise at night.
I have a cunning plan though......two more years and i will be free of debts then i'm packing all work in and going cycling till i can't cycle any more and when that occurs i'll worry bout what happens then. 😀
EDIT : forgot my right leg now drags a bit as i cannot get it to work properly and it's power is reduced 30% according to my recent test at the spinal unit....so i have a hunch on my spine, drag my right leg.....Hmmmm?....Esmerelda...where are you?. 😀
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Over the years I've managed to pick up 13 fracture injuries, finger, wrist, rib, scapula, tibia, fibular, fibular, other wrist, another rib, sternum, coccyx and a couple of crushed vertebrae, T11 and T12. The two fib breaks in my left leg were never reduced, so occasionally I get a bit of swelling and discomfort which lasts me a couple of days if I overdo it on that leg. The crushed vertebrae have left me getting on for an inch shorter than I used to be. I also have FAI in both hips, congenital apparently. My right hip has recently become a bit limiting, inasmuch as I have to take regular doses of codeine, paracetamol and NSAIDs. I spent a long time feeling sorry for myself (it was diagnosed last June) but a recent event has made me take stock and realise that it only holds me back as much as I let it. Mrs Scape tells me off if I mope around, and positively encourages me to go cycling. She's right. The more I do the better it feels, and the pain, though still at the same levels, at least makes sense if I've had a day hooning around! I'm 49 and I'm not ready to give up yet.
Edit: SOmafunk hadn't posted before I wrote my bit, and that "get on with it and worry later" is about right. Life's far too short to limit yourself in case something worse happens.
Blimey we are not a great advert for our sport with all the injuries we've sustained MTBing 😕
Good luck to all those who are receiving treatment for their injuries/illnesses & get well soon.
After a serious RTA at age 19 I had to give up all forms of sport.
A permanent nerve injury means that I have no bicep or tricep muscles on my right arm, luckily my right hand still works so I can change gear & brake but going downhill I am effectively riding one-handed which is very interesting to say the least.
4 years ago I was diagnosed with skin cancer but fortunately it was caught at an early stage & the melanoma was removed in two operations, the second one has left me with a large zig-zag scar on my shoulder as a constant reminder of how lucky I am, another 12 months & I will hopefully get the 'all clear'.
I resumed playing footie again nearly 10 years ago & I now regularly play twice a week & usually get a couple XC rides in too.
I'm 52 this year & I think I'm probably fitter now than when I was 17 or 18 years old. Life is good & I intend to make the most of it while I'm still here.
Last week I bought this as a present to myself cos life is too short.
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