When days turn to weeks, and into months...
A "little" crash caused this...
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And it needed surgery a couple of weeks later so turned into this...
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Looks like I'll need more surgery over the next few months and won't be properly riding again 'til at least next spring! Stupid nerves...
So who else is broken and not riding at the moment? and how are you staving off the boredom?
I was hoping the Wii or Playstation would keep me amused but thats difficult when one of your hands doesn't work!
****!! 😯
What did you do?
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what Jamie said.. 😯
I always maintain I'd keep training on the turbo if I hurt an arm, but I'm not sure in reality how long I could stand that!
Riding at the moment with a cracked rib, but nothing like what you're going through!
Get well soon! 🙂
I've just put all me bikes on Classifieds and ordered a fishing rod.
don't google fishing injuries for images..
I always maintain I'd keep training on the turbo if I hurt an arm, but I'm not sure in reality how long I could stand that!
I'd planned to, managed it a couple fo times but it seems even more dull now, planning to get back on the turbo when it gets nearer to knowing I can ride again (have done a couple of 1 handed miles on the singlespeed but that doesn't count...)
What did you do?
Was at the beginning of a race..a couple of people went down right in front of me and I crashed into them - impaled by someone's brake lever. Time for panic and an ambulance ride! They thought I'd broken it to start with, but no..."just" nerve damage - so now my hand/wrist don't work - it does warrant lots of real painkillers though 😛
Was 9 weeks ago when I crashed, 7 stitches and sent home form A&E so was expecting to be riding again pretty quickly...
I've just put all me bikes on Classifieds and ordered a fishing rod.
My parents think now is a good time to give up cycling forever! Not sure I need to have quite so many bikes sitting in the garage, but I know if I sell 1, that'll be the one that I want to ride the most when I start riding again! 😛
don't google fishing injuries for images..
Why, oh why would you put that idea in my head?
Me! [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/no-bike-riding-for-six-weeks ]linky[/url]
Get well soon x
Flipping heck!
Looks like a bit of a nick in the first pic
Get well soon and don't sell any bikes
Geez mate that sounds like really bad luck. I thought I had a monopoly on that. Get better soon.
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Get well soon!
Jeez I thought I had bad luck!
I'm broken at the moment, second collar bone in 3 months 🙁 Learned my lesson though, collar bones take ages to heal.
Heal up quick and hope things are ok long term.
Why, oh why would you put that idea in my head?
sorry.. 😳
It was BA.nanas idea of selling the bikes and buying a fishing rod.. I wanted to see what the danger aspect would be..
I did warn you [i]not[/i] to google..
Frick, that's impressive!
Hope you heal up soon. 🙂
I'm in a cast after a wrist dislocation, but have been riding anyway for the last few weeks. Cast has been on since July 24th and I'm due to have an op on the 23rd September to get the cast off and metalwork out. Hopefully then it'll just be a load of physio, but I suspect it'll be a few months until I can ride flat out again.
ooya! that looks pretty nasty. get well soon.
broken collar bone here. the ends were pretty spread but they gave me a couple of weeks to sort myself out and second set of xrays showed good alignment, fortunately, so i dodged the surgery bullet 🙂
has been remarkably pain free ( i did the other side before which was an absolute bitch ), and at 5.5 weeks i'm able to raise my arm up straight, so it's been a good recovery and i've been very lucky. if the component that failed had done so about 10mins later, i'd have been doing jumps at about 30mph, rather than rolling down a slope onto a fire road, so it could have been significantly worse for me in many, many ways.
hope to be pedalling around on flatish stuff next week and maybe start back on the easy stuff in a couple of weeks.
I was off 4 months with a broken leg mate, don't worry it flies by.
In that pic you can see how much muscle I lost. It was tight at first.
Non weight bearing due to the spiral fracture so was house bound too.
You will soon be back out riding.
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For a second I thought MoseyMTB was nailed onto a wall.
Ha Jamie it's a new healing technique. Velcro yourself to the wall to keep blood flowing.
Science eh? Whatever next!
Can't see the images above for some reason. However, am currently recovering from Bankart shoulder repair surgery, I dislocated my shoulder at Cannock (twice in 1hr!) hurts like a bastard. Still, at least I'll I'm on the mend, should be riding properly offroad by Xmas
Yeah, virus triggered an episode of Chronic Fatigue. Been unable to do any riding for 12 months. Has flown by and trough hard work and determination I managed to do my first ride in 12 months yesterday. But still a lOng way to go till I'm 100%.
Get some good box sets and books. It'll fly by and you'll be riding before you know it.
Not really broken, but have a rather painful big bruise in a delicate area causing great pain when sat on the saddle pedalling 🙁
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recovering from collarbone break. Back on the road but haven't headed for the forest. Hope you heal up soon. Complications are awful...
ugh i feel for all of the above, there is nothing worse than an injury causing forced downtime, sitting there all alone wondering how long 'till your back on your bike,... or even worse if you WANT to get back on a bike, but don't give up!, you'll be back before you know it doing what you love to do! As they say "what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger" get well soon peeps!
Pretty insignificant compared with some of the posts above, but I'm off the bike at the moment due to a running injury. Ligament damage in right knee from too much running. Keep thinking it's fixed, then try a run or go on the bike and pain comes back after a mile or so. Gutted, got a half marathon in three weeks too.
Went over the bars descending on the hope valley loop, 10 weeks ago.
Fractures in humerus bone and ball have healed, now doing physio and have about 50 degrees of movement back.
Probably next year before I can get out again properly.
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Relatively minor injnury compared to those on here but still off for however many weeks it will be. Going to see a shoulder specialist on Monday who will then take a view about whether to plate it or not - it's the one on the left of the picture obviously, the one on the right (my left) was done about four years ago. Neat job that one.
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Yep.
10 weeks ago i fractured my hip socket (Which has healed enough for me to walk properly), and fractured my spine in a few places after having a massive smash at harthill (MTB pursuits).
Still wearing a brace for my spine, and i have 2 weeks left of having to wear it.
Currently going through physio for muscle loss for my leg and hip. I've also got massive core muscle wastage at the moment, which is so disheartening.
Not able to ride for another 6 weeks.. :/
There's a lot of horrible sounding injuries here!
Hope everyone makes a speedy recovery! 🙂
Comparison seems a bit peak but a fracture radial head 10 days ago on the ride home.
Cant rotate it and hand impacts shoot up to elbow riding is not poss. Hoping to do D2D but no doubt will be ill prepared and sore.
Hope everyone else recovers well and quickly.
Not sure it counts but it was my stag do last night and now I feel very broken.
Bad luck becky heal quick!
As for boredom staving, learn to skate? 😉
Not sure it counts but it was my stag do last night and now I feel very broken.
😆 Unfortunately the factors curtailing your bike riding opportunities are nascent and are about to get a whole lot more restrictive!
damaged left arm, had only jsut started riding after a broken collar bone on the right, and had only started riding again them after a lost of muscle damage on the left. feels like i've hardly ridden all year 🙁
still, all injuries could've been a lot worse and my bike hasnt snuck off through boredom so i know its waiting for me, itching to get back out and have some fun, just like i am 🙂
get well soon everyone!
Recovering from a broken elbow over here...
Back to work on Monday, after 6 weeks off...
Me, someone has called me 'Cheese Toastie' in the tags and I am deeply, deeply wounded.
Broke my collar bone August 1st 2010 on a training day at Connock. Hoping to get the sling off tomorrow. That's over a year 🙁 Not been in a sling the whole time, but have had to have 2 ops as the break wont heal.
And in the meantime i've screwed my knee - waiting to see a surgeon in the next 2 weeks, but he GP reckons a knee replacement - so could be off for quite some time.
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The result of the wife's 15 minute ride yesterday. Now a little bit sore after having it put back in. Big up to Gloucester hospital though, seen quickly and sorted.
Been broken for 8 1/2 years now. 10mm shorter on one side now. Fell 7.5m so happy to be here. Live with constant pain as it is a notoriously painful injury. Even affects my back every 18 months by slipping a disc. Roll on old age 😆
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Get well soon to everybody who is broken.
After reading and looking at all the pics I'm off to buy lots of body armour....Wishing a speedy recovery to all of you.
After reading and looking at all the pics I'm off to buy lots of body armour....Wishing a speedy recovery to all of you.
Not to be a naysayer but there is very little body armour, with a few exceptions, will do to prevent any of the injuries here. It's very good at preventing cuts and scraps and a spine guard is about the most valuable piece of armour I think you can wear.
But it's the helmet that really saved my bacon. The A&E doctor who examined me looked over my helmet and saw how the material and deformed and cracked front to back. She shuddered when she saw this and commented that it probably saved my life. No one can really know what injury I would have sustained had I not been wearing a (very effecitve) lid - it was a POC p**s pot helmet so I'd like to think it was a step above in terms of safety - but the thought of all that energy being trasfered directly to my head, rather than via the helmet makes me shudder.
At the very least, the doc reckoned I would have been in a critical way with a very serious head injury.
Everyone else can argue on the merits and virtues of helmets but I need absolutely no further evidence or convincing as to just how important they are.
After reading and looking at all the pics I'm off to buy lots of body armour....Wishing a speedy recovery to all of you.
I'm with the poster above..
My injuries wouldn't have been stopped with body armour. It'd just be much more expensive to replace it when they slice it off me.
But yes, for skin wounds. armour is indispensible.
I need to man up, seeing those above 😳
Riding at the moment with a cracked rib, but nothing like what you're going through!
as I'm in the same boat, last week knackered a rib, riding tonight; although going by the wind something might fall on my head..
This weekends tomfoolery resulted in.......
OTB resulting in a scratch (or so I thought) the bit i can see looked OK, but it foes from my waist to my shoulder blade and is definately more of a cut round the back! And ends in an almighty bruise over my left shoulderblade!
A chunk of flesh missing from my right foot after scuffing it on a crack in the driveway barefoot, thankfully drunk at the time so no painfull :p
off to a sorts physic for a first consultation on my ankle thats just doesn't seem to work anymore. Too many instances of rolling it playing football I am guessing 🙁
Oh my goodness! Speedy recovery to you all!
Get Well Soon to everyone!!
I was up on Friday in a short weather Window to the Nevis Range Red Downhill and loved it, first run excellent but felt that I had to go faster to get the most out of the section in the treeline. Second run, got down the most technical section past the bedrock river crossing then it goes a bit blank!
Easy bit, going between two trees then opening up to a shallow berm. My mate was about 5 seconds before me, heard an almighty crash. Me face down in the trail, moved my bike then me as I was starting to speak. For 30 mins kept repeating, what day is it, where's Ian is this ths second run? Scraped from should to hip, dislocated left shoulder again but popped back in. This is the strange bit I was wearing Race Face Rallye Downhill pads and during the fall my elbow had a hole in it straight down to the bone! Neoprene and Plastic appear undamaged. It hadnt slipped round.
Cannot remember the crash, talking pish for 30 mins (other than usual)and the first part of getting my pads taken off to expose injuries.
Concussion it seems, could only find a very small dent in my helmet at the back right hand corner. Doc says, it would have been a fractured skull otherwise. Dread to think how bad the elbow would have been so only 2 internal stitches and four external.
Tried to play down the concussion to the doc so not to get kept in 😳 My Mate reminded me to say to the doc I wasnt that confused as organised replacement tickets for next year as injured. Thanks Nevis Range