[Closed] You are a walking miracle and your A+E hates you (battle scars thread)

that pic is over exposed

Only recent injury is a bruised heart

I hit a tree this evening, but tis merely a flesh wound. Forgot my helmet so was only doing a bit of xc mince lite riding and not going too fast. I have stayed out of A&E from bike injuries for quite a while now, mainly beinig patched up after rugby

Nope. Not been to A&E for many a year.

Worst injury I had was years ago. I ended up with a hole in the soft tissue just below the knee cap about a 1cm deep. I could see into it and saw what I thought was bone so went to A&E. The xray revealed that a foreign object was inbedded in th soft tissue. After lots of digging around by the Doctor out popped a lump of Quartz. The noise of instruments scrapping at the Quartz nearly made me pass out! I kept it in my wallet for years as a momento!

and so it should be. the picture not your heart longstand.

in 6 yrs of riding orf road.
in order of most recent.

broken clavicle.
torn knee ligs, lots of them at once, then a yearly hyper extention after.
torn shoulder acj and collapsed lung.

Prolly a few cuts, etc that should've needed stitches but my rambo knife had the kit in the handle.

And i broke 7 spokes and a rear mech once.

TJ, that's because you keep failing the paramedic exams..... 😉

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- More scars than I can count, but broadly categorised as
Painful removal of large areas of skin, though not too deep
Deep, but small, gouges from impacting on bikes / rocks / trees etc
- Cracked ribs on LHS from fall at Llandegla
- Dislocated collar bone (Grade III ACJ dislocation) from fall at Penmachno

It's funny how the local trails are the ones that get you

Fractured left arm
Completely broken right arm (inc. surgery, pot comes off on friday 😀 😀 )
Split head open, twice
Various ligaments

Arm:
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two dislocated fingers
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A stranger called the ambulance as I knocked myslef out.

I hope you wiped your shoes.

Concussion x5ish
Huge road rash including both palms of hands (3 hours with a brillo pad to clean that up, and bandages for 2 months)
I've seen me shinbone through a pedal gash ([i]still[/i] not properly healed)
Couple of dislocated digits & toes
More cracked ribs, sprains & bruises than I care to count.

Being a bloody idiot though, I've only been to A+E twice from biking crashes. The pub has always been closer, the queue is usually shorter and if you have a good enough tall tale someone'll always stand you a pint.

Dislocated and broken thumb (2 1/2 months off work).

Fractured elbow.

Dislocated wrist, shattered radius (bone graph), broke end off ulner, career ending, hence my trowel being rusty.

Shoulder hasn't worked properly for last 13 years, ligaments i think.

All bmx inflicted, this is my 'safe' replacement activity, touch wood.

oh, and broken ribs and concussion from ice skating.

Soma rich, i'd say the main problem was someone had grafted your lower leg onto your index finger!

I hit a tree head on on Christmas eve on my DH bike and broke both wrists 🙁

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Arrgghhh my eyes!

Well the last time I was in A+E it wasn't due to a bike related accident but certainly a good one:
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After I left I had good comedy finger but did mean I couldn't ride for a couple of weeks and my gloves stung like made the first few rides out
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Oh and yes they are burnt, hot oil splashed up and did that!

Oh forgot bike related:

4 dislocated shoulders that were bike related (6 now in total)

I've generally considered myself to have been quite lucky in 20 odd years of biking until I did this:
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Lost a chunk of flesh from my forearm, ground the bone and nearly 'degloved' my tricep at an event at Kirroughtree 😯 Spent 3 nights in the hospital and managed to avoid a graft by being bungeed together again.

Ripped my favourite Aldi top (five years old) on a gate today 🙁

I was very annoyed. 🙁

I really wish I hadn't opened this thread...

Get well soon everyone.

4 days riding at Afan/Brechfa this weekend- worst injury, a rather nasty mossie bite.

:o)

In my 16 years of riding, in order no particular order:
Fractured skull - 7cm crack, week in hospital, two weeks off school!
Sprial fracture of left tibia - 6 weeks in plaster, two of them off school!
Dented left radius - hit the edge of a van door at 20mph, whole forearm turned black and blue, thankfully not broken.
Split knee - 4 stitches, lots of iodine and "oh look, there's my knee cap!"
Not to mention the 10s/100s of other "flesh wounds".
I think I've got off quite lightly. You definitely learn how to fall off the more you do it!

Never really thought about - whilst making this list it sort of feltlike recalling the names of those you've bonked.

Over 35 years of riding bikes:

Numerous broken wrists, forearms and fingers as 1980's BMX youth.
Broken left thumb
broken left humerous
torn left rotator cuff
torn left pec and bicep tendon
broken left ankle x 3
broken right ankle x 1
torn left knee medial ligament
3 cracked ribs (all seperate stacks)
smashed front teeth (flipped a grifter showing how great I was to smaller kids)
fracured L2 vertebrae & nerve damage to this area
bruised kidneys

& possibly the bane of my riding life - shit loads of nettle sting!!!

A friend's brakes failed, so he headed for some foliage,ferns and the like, only to find it concealed a finest millstone grit gatepost.

This all resulted in a huge endo and a trip to casualty where he had to tell them that he'd ripped his knacker sack wide open............

You'll all be disappointed to know there are no pics.obviously

Had a clay pidgeon trap go off in my face once (well its not something you want to repeat 😕 )

Got hold of the wrong end of a chainsaw on two occasions.

Only ever grazed myself falling off the bike, although I do appear to bounce rather well 🙂

only thing of note is a separated shoulder/ ac joint
I'd like to keep it that way

[i]Got hold of the wrong end of a chainsaw on two occasions.[/i]

And you never learnt after the first time 😉

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Still waiting for my nose job, the lump of spanish rock to be removed from under my eye and the feeling to come back to my teeth. That was the end of feb. Bike was ok though. Phew.

Broke my wrist twice last year, first time playing footie but broke it in the same place going over the bars three weeks after the cast came off. The consultant was very pissed off!!

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I've had a few cuts and a a few broken ribs, but the worse was a broken ankle a few years ago, 6 weeks in plaster and 12 weeks off work.
Old age is worse than any injury by far, at 52 I don't heal anywhere near as fast and I can't ride as fast either 😥

In 20 years of mountain biking I've never had a really serious injury 🙂

Commuting on the other hand -

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Did this over two years ago.
Still doing physio.
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No nothing never, you clowns, stop trying too hard....

Broken wrist in 7, yes 7 places, damaged tendon from thumb (3 operations in total)

Broken toe

Broken ribs

concusion & blackout

Im happy 🙂