About three weeks ago I was just getting out the shower, drying my hair with a towel (I don't use a lot of effort I don't have much hair), when I felt a pull/crack in my neck. It was no big deal, just a bit sore when I turned my head to either side. That was until this week when it's flared up and I'm in agony from my neck and across my right shoulder.
Been to docs and he thinks that it's soft tissue damage which flared up after going out on my bike on Tuesday night - even though I've been out 3/4 times before that since the original pull. He recommends that I don't ride for a week or two and has given me some huge anti inflamms to take.
When I was a teenager I broke my ankle in 4 places when I twisted my ankle after slipping off a kerb.
Any other naff STW injuries?
Does having small, infectious, biohazards for children count as an injury?
A few weeks ago my missus was doing a half marathon and I went to watch, saw her near the half way point and was walking across Cardiff to meet her at the finish (a huge distance of 2 miles...) and stood in a small pothole twisted my ankle and nearly didn't make it to the finish 😳
Putting on my socks.
(My back seems fine, no aches and pains, but sometimes putting on my socks is just a bit much for my back)
My sister went on a skiing holiday earlier this year. Dislocated her shoulder taking the cover off the hot tub.
Quite possibly jam bo!
I went to the national centre of excellence for British Gymnastics to have a go on all the equipment with a couple of top coaches, you know, massive trampoline, foam pits, bars, rings, long springy trampolinish run thingy, the works. Broke my little toe by catching it under a closing fire door as I left the loo after a nervous pee before the session. Most ridiculous injury ever. (Still participated in the session though, was only a wonky toe after all)
Fell off turbo trainer when my seatpost suddenly snapped. Tore cruciate and meniscus.
I guess it counts as self inflicted...
Did my back in trying on a pair of walking boots in Decathlon the day before I went on holiday. Could barely move for a week.
Pectoral strain. Chuffing hurt that, did it over compensating on my right side from an bruised rib on my left..
Ferchistsake 🙄
A few weeks ago I had a day off work so decided to go along to our daughters weekly swimming session with my girlfriend to see how she was getting on. She's only 19 months so needs holding onto, whilst flapping her arms around she managed to poke me in the eye with her finger.
After a couple hours of unbearable pain I thought I better go to the hospital and get it looked at. She had managed to put a deep scratch across my cornea with her fingernail and the chlorine from the pool was irritating it too.
The worse bit was I had booked the uplift at gawton for the day after 👿 I did think in the morning I could still go and ride with just one eye but the sensible voice in my head said riding gawton while not being able to see properly was going to end up with another hospital visit, I did have the bike in the car at that point though 😆
Pissed up Thursday night, fell off a kerb - bruised ribs, sprained ankle, sore knee and elbow
Strained my hand badly trying to pull my self on top of a pool inflatable. Still hurts occasionally three months later!
Had my kneecap dislocated in a stealth attack by a fat women who lost her footing on a grass bank. I was stood back to her having a beer after running the Crich 10k. I went to pick my niece up who was about to be obliterated by the free falling fat knacker who consequently landed in the side of my knee and my foot just stayed proper planted. Stung alot, and 4 weeks off the bike.
Hopped a small (1ft) fence in the park Easter 2015 on the way to the shop and tore some ligaments in my ankle landing on it funny. Couldn't weight bear for 3 weeks and it still aches now occasionally, 18 months on.
I did my back Thursday night sneezing - struggled to bend to get my shoes on yesterday.
Some good ones. At least I'm not the only fragile one!
Bent over to get shoes out of wardrobe. Did something to my back and spent a month shuffling and hobbling around in agony. Don't know what I did but docs advice was to take up swimming - never did.
Tore something in my knee whilst standing on tip toes to paint the ceiling.
Still knackered 2 years later.
Packed the car for a weekend away climbing, all ready to go and I went to get some ice blocks from the freezer and dropped a block of frozen chilli on my toe. Probably broken I reckon still feels funny a few years on
Turns out the rib was broken.
How long to ride after a broken rib?
Completely ****ed my rotator cuff reaching to turn out the bedside lamp...
It's taken months to heal, but after a lazy day in bed today, it's sore as **** again 🙁
How long to ride after a broken rib?
A friend of mine broke his recently and was back on the bike (gently at first) after about 3 weeks. Everyone heals at different speeds though, best rule is if it hurts, don't do it!
After all the stupid things i've done on bikes, i went out 3 weeks ago to meet some mates. Rolling along a flat gravel fire road, twisted a bit, felt a twinge in my back. Been in agony for 3 weeks, even Naproxen, cocodamol and codeine only take the edge off. It was getting a bit better after 2 weeks but I managed to re-do it. 🙄
Injured a rotator cuff playing tug-of-war........
with a puppy 😳
snapped my banjo string, whilst me and the wife were 'courting' prior to getting married.
and any bloke who has will know what pain is.
3 hrs of techy slippery roots today with no issue, overtopped a manual in car park at end, afternoon in minor injuries and plastic surgery for big hole in arm at 8 tomorrow am. What a fanny 😳
Sex game gone wrong.
I tripped on the stairs and badly broke my finger - dislocated and pointed up and back towards my wrist...
Similar to ton,but with the added fun of thinking...ooops better put something in the big bleeding tear to clean it....witch hazel, I had about a millisecond, before the enormity of the cockup entered my slightly drunk mind and spent the next 15 minutes or so curled up in a small ball screaming
I broke the 5th metatarsal in both feet doing star jumps.
Broken arm throwing a tennis ball when I was 10, and put a hole in my throat sneezing......
At a kids play centre, I went to kick a ball that had come out of the ball pit, kicked the floor instead (no shoes on) and broke my little toe.
When I was a lad, I kicked my brother so hard, I twisted my ankle and couldn't walk properly for a couple of days.
When I was around 7 or 8, I walked past a honeysuckle plant, which scratched my cornea. I had to wear an eye patch for what seemed like ages after.
Suffering with man flu I gamely continued to make something for tea which involved using a hand blender. At some point blender got blocked at which point I used my finger to clear it and switched it on with the other hand. Still don't have much feeling in the tip of that finger years later...
Something similar to Ton too, 😳 although not with his wife.
That's not the usual place for it but self gratification will be interesting.Plastic surgery for big hole in arm at 8 tomorrow am. What a fanny
I contrived to give myself tennis elbow shaking the coffe plug out of the basket. Didn't have anything to knock it out on...
Chopping onions with a nicely sharpened knife - removed the tip of my finger and had to take two weeks off work because of infection risk!
Put my back out at Kirroughtree on my first visit there a few years ago - bending over to strap LittleMissMC into her buggy.
Put my back out lifting a 4 pint carton of milk out the fridge at work.
Put my back out while sneezing at work.
Put my back out squeezing into some big tights before an early Sunday ride
There's a theme there.
My mate broke his wrist - resulting in an impressive titanium Meccano set up to repair it - after a trip to Manchester velodrome for the taster session.
He never actually made it to the velodrome - was cycling there when he clipped the wing mirror of a parked car and landed awkwardly. Apparently.
Scotroutes, maybe you should take up Fortune Telling, you predicted my fall the other day 😀
on a safety course, the lecturer told us one of his previous students had put his fingers intro a vent axia fan almost amputating them, when asked why he saidbease the fan was keeping him awake and he wanted to stop it.
a mate visiting his elderley mother, in a and e with a broken hip, fell over the curb outside and riped the muscles inhis leg came in limping ,jeans ripped open and bloodied knees.
Anterior shoulder dislocation (general anesthetic to reduce and used as a teaching case) riding round a car park.
[quote=iainc ]Scotroutes, maybe you should take up Fortune Telling, you predicted my fall the other day TBF , I can follow that up with; "it will snow this winter" and "the next pope will be a catholic".
Hmmm.... 😀
Showing my partner's 7 year old son how to use a skateboard without hurting himself had a pretty predictable result.
