What is the worst injurie you have ever had?

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What is the worst injury you have ever had? It does not have to be from footy.

I was playing kick to kick at school in 1996. I kicked the ball the same way I had done 1000000,0000 times before, and my knee decided to dislocate. Just like that. Nobody put any pressure on me, it just happened. It was my right knee.

I went to see a knee specialist about this injury. According to him, 95% of people who dislocate their knee, are able to get it pushed back in place. 5% of people need an operation. So, guess which group I was in. That is right people, I was in the 5% of people who needed an operation.

The guy said that it was possible that I may be able to avoid the operation if I went to the Physiotherapist. So I did, hoping that the knee would get strong enough that this would never happen again.

For 6 bloody months, I went, and did the exersises. I had 1 week left to go. By this stage, I was walking, kicking the footy, and I thought my trouble was over.


Days before my last appointment, it happened again. It happened the same way it happened the last time, in the very same position of the oval as last time. Under no pressure at all.


So, I had the operation. Not the highlight of my 1996 year, I can tell you. After a while, back to physio I went once again, for another 6 months.

This is the worst part of all of this. I asked the Physio if this could happen again, and he didn't know. So, that did nothing for my confidence. Then came the killer blow to my confidence. I was told that this could happen to my left knee. Ever since then, every time I kick a footy, I have done so knowing that I am putting both my knees at risk.

I have another story from my primary school days, about the same knee, but that is for another time.

What is your worst injury?
 

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Playing in the U-15 Victorian Grasscourt Championships back in 1998, I was in the semi-finals, and I was a set up. It was an immensly hot day, and i had to run really hard to get to a ball on the right side of the court. After hitting the ball, I tried to clamp both feet down, to turn the other way.

Result - I tore my right ankle ligament and rolled my left ankle, and had to retire. I actually wanted to keep playing, because I only had to win another two games to make the final, and win a cash prize, but they forced me to retire because if I did further damage I could have sued them.

I was shattered, and I gave up tennis after that. Had ankle troubles since, and I can tell you, a torn ankle ligament doesn't tickle.

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Never been seriously injured, never spent a night in hospital - strange considering the amount of time spent on my grandparent's farm, up trees, on the back of trucks, chasing various large farm animals and miscellaneous machinery.:)

I fell off a bunk bed once and needed one stitch in my head, thats the worse.
 

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I broke my wrist punching......something!!

Missed a B'ball grand final.

Been in hospital a fair bit when I was a kid. I had slightly bad hearing and needed a few operations. All better now
 

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It was halftime of the Bulldogs vs St. Kilda game at Optus Oval in August 1999.

We went for a kick on the oval next door and as we were running in I moved one way but my leg went the other and I completely did my knee. I injured the medial and anterior legiments and I also injured my knee cap.

Luckily the week before I had just played my last game of footy for the year

I played the next season but couldn't this year. My knee still goes under me every now and again to this day
 

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My first major injury came this year...my 5th year of footy. I tore my MCL, ACL and LCL ligaments in my right knee. Did some other damage to that knee aswell in just 5 seconds like cartilage damage and my Lateral Meniscus torn aswell. The op was a big one, he didn't need to reconstruct the MCL or LCL but fixed the rest of the knee up.

I know you asked for the worst, and that is the only one, but I feel like mentioning a few minor ones.

Rolled my left ankle 6 times - now have it taped most the time I play sport. Rolled my right ankle a couple of times.

Disclocated my finger playing soccer. I was goalie and some moron decided to go for my fingers instead of the ball. He hated me btw so It doesn't surprise me that he did it.

I have lower back pain sometimes if I run after a period off, like a few months, but after the first week or 2, it goes away.

Bike accident back in 96. Was trying to be smart by having no hands on the handle bars, have this huge scar on my left knee now. It was too big for stiches.

I think thats all the minor ones.
 

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Playing footy back in...1998 i believe it was third game of the year playing U/17 i dislocated my shoulder in the same fashion carey did the year before. Went up for a mark, got pulled down and i landed on my arm which forced it to go completly round the wrong way. The biggest pain ive ever had in my life, i thought i landed on a sprinkler head or something the pain was that intense...then i realised i couldnt move my entire arm and it hurt like f*ck....it went back in place...had a reconstruction of my shoulder, still have the little anthroscope scars to prove it...i got to stay at SportsMed with Scott Hodges (my hero) - who did the exact same injury and the exact same operation the same morning as me!!

This also affected my elbow...i can make my elbow click extremly loud moving it in any which way...and i figure in a few years ill have no cartlidge left.
Back to my shoulder....the recovery was going well...three-four weeks into my exercises and it was getting better, but i still couldnt lift my arm....some dikhead from my school decided to punch me in that shoulder (it was only a fooling around punch like mates do...pity he wasnt a mate) which pushed the shoulder back out of socket and in again real quickly.....hurt like hell, my mate kicked teh crap out of the bastard who did it thankfully, and my shoulder has not recovered. I can move my shoulder out of joint easily whenever i want...and it doesnt hurt anymore when i do it, but i wont be able to play footy again until its properly fixed as i fear if i hit the ground or get a pretty hard bump it will dislocate again!
 

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Those injuries pale in comparsion to this one which occured a few years back in the EDFL. Some kid was tackled over the boundary line, fell on a broken stubby, opening his scrotum and one nut fell out. Now that's ****en pain. :eek:
 

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I have osgood schlatters....for those of you who don't know what that is (coz apparently it's pretty common) it's where the muscles in your knee do not grow with the bone. Like growing pains. My knee is really weak, I often have to miss netball and PE. It is triggered by the easiest thing, if I miss a stair or step in a hole, it could put me out of netball. :( It tends to ache a lot. I have this huge lump on my knee that, according to the physio, will never go away.
 

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Originally posted by play on
What is the worst injury you have ever had? It does not have to be from footy.

I was playing kick to kick at school in 1996. I kicked the ball the same way I had done 1000000,0000 times before, and my knee decided to dislocate. Just like that. Nobody put any pressure on me, it just happened. It was my right knee.

I went to see a knee specialist about this injury. According to him, 95% of people who dislocate their knee, are able to get it pushed back in place. 5% of people need an operation. So, guess which group I was in. That is right people, I was in the 5% of people who needed an operation.

The guy said that it was possible that I may be able to avoid the operation if I went to the Physiotherapist. So I did, hoping that the knee would get strong enough that this would never happen again.

For 6 bloody months, I went, and did the exersises. I had 1 week left to go. By this stage, I was walking, kicking the footy, and I thought my trouble was over.


Days before my last appointment, it happened again. It happened the same way it happened the last time, in the very same position of the oval as last time. Under no pressure at all.


So, I had the operation. Not the highlight of my 1996 year, I can tell you. After a while, back to physio I went once again, for another 6 months.

This is the worst part of all of this. I asked the Physio if this could happen again, and he didn't know. So, that did nothing for my confidence. Then came the killer blow to my confidence. I was told that this could happen to my left knee. Ever since then, every time I kick a footy, I have done so knowing that I am putting both my knees at risk.

I have another story from my primary school days, about the same knee, but that is for another time.

What is your worst injury?
This is unbelievable that is so much like my knee i cant believe it.I was playing footy in june 2000 in the u/18s.Never been injured before then jump sideways to tackle someone,I hear a shift and good god my knee is out.:eek: They put it back in when im in the changerooms and as soon as I went to bend it came out again.Since then Ive had 3 arthroscopes and a patella realignment(is that what you had)my knee has now popped out a further 4 times(twice when slipping over when pissed,once when kicking footy and once at work).I now find myself with the possibility i may not be able to play again and will soon have to make the decision as my knee is slowly getting strong again.I have a 15cm scar straight down the middle of my knee and it is still swollen and my last op was in december last year.I strongly encourage all of you to avoid this injury because I cannot imagine anything more painful.;)
 
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I had an acute anterior compartment syndrome which almost led to me losing my leg. Luckily i rushed straight to the hospital!

It's an injury caused by excessive stress being placed on your muscles through exercise. I thought i had shin splints at training one boggy night, but ended up waking in the morning in the greatest of greatest pain. I knew something was very wrong and rushed to hospital ... didn't even bother to go to a GP first.

ACS is when the fascia surrounding my anterior groups of muscles in my lower leg constricts ... cutting-off the blood supply to these muscles. The pressure in my leg was 9 times the normal! :eek:

The leg is 110% now ... thankfully! :)

P.S I was in hospital watching Darren Bewick kick 8 in his comeback game against Geelong. I peed off the whole ward with my yelling and screaming!! :D
 

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Originally posted by topdon
I had an acute anterior compartment syndrome which almost led to me losing my leg. Luckily i rushed straight to the hospital!

It's an injury caused by excessive stress being placed on your muscles through exercise. I thought i had shin splints at training one boggy night, but ended up waking in the morning in the greatest of greatest pain. I knew something was very wrong and rushed to hospital ... didn't even bother to go to a GP first.

ACS is when the fascia surrounding my anterior groups of muscles in my lower leg constricts ... cutting-off the blood supply to these muscles. The pressure in my leg was 9 times the normal! :eek:

The leg is 110% now ... thankfully! :)

P.S I was in hospital watching Darren Bewick kick 8 in his comeback game against Geelong. I peed off the whole ward with my yelling and screaming!! :D
When I was in hospital for my patella realignment the rd 21 bulldogs vs essendon upset was on tv.Luckily for the rest of the patients I had a private ward.I dont wana go back there its to hard to pee in a cup.:eek:
 

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Hmm, lets see..... a broken jaw, a broken nose, a broken ankle, a broken+dislocated finger(at the same time), TWO back muscles totally stuffed(couldn't walk or move at all for about a week, took over 6months for it too heal properly).

Only the broken jaw is not sport related:eek: I used to be very injury prone, but its been better lately. Haven't had any injuries for over 2yrs now.
 

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The only injury I ever get is shin splints. Which are a bastard, takes a few weeks to get rid of and even then, they still flare up now and again.
 

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One of the funniest ones I ever heard of was a mate of mine snapped one of the straps that supported his right nut!!

We both arrived at the carpark at work together, I seen him get out of his car (from a distance)...which is when it snapped.

Hopped back in the car and drove off???

I found out the next day what had happened.

PainFULL apparently

:mad:
 
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