Quick Injury Survey

[Retribunator]

Hey I've got some homework about sports injuries to do and I thought, who better to ask than a group of 20-50 year olds who are heavily involved with military and other strenuouse activity. Longer lives = better chance of results than a bunch of 14 year old kids.

All Categories are Down, thanks for helping me everyone.

[Madhouse]

Name: Matt Gough
Injury: Dislocation (shoulder)
How you did it: Swimming, actually racing my PE teacher and was winning and it came out near the end

[Retribunator]

ok thanks a lot Madhouse (screw you shotgun) hopefully you can get the ball rolling. Can you tell me what you dislocated? Shoulder? Hip?

[Madhouse]

Injury: Dislocation (shoulder)

I did :)

[Retribunator]

oh sorry I missed that

[VisOne]

Name: Daniel Cade
Injury: Dislocation (Knuckle)
How you did it: Drove my knuckle back into my fist while playing football.

Injury: Fractures (Medial Tibial Syndrome *Shin Splints)
How you did it: Got taken out by serious illegal slide tackle while playing soccer which started the micro fracturing of both my shins put a total end to my sporting days and possibility of joining the armed forces.

My personal favourite although it wasn't technically a sport accident I fractured my collar bone when I landed my bike badly after a jump my friend who was a cadet medic came over to check my collar bone to see if it was broken. His exact words "See its not broken if it was broken I couldn't lean on it" guess what he did ? On the plus side when I went to the doctor he noticed I wasn't using my left index finger to button my shirt about 3 weeks earlier I had cut it quite badly with a scalpel all the way to the bone and had completely severed the tendon. 2 days later I was in surgery and now I have a 2 inch scar all the way down the left hand index finger and I still can't bend it fully. That doctor saved me from having a completly usless index finger know what that means I wouldn't be able to strafe left no finger for the D key. :P

[Retribunator]

thanks for that Vis, great help but I'm real sorry about the shin MTS, you must've had to rethink your entire life after that.

NOTE: for future reference, if a type of injury has been said, I only need one of each category. For example, Vis and Madhouse both mentioned there dislocation, I only need on story about each injury. The Fracture was still really helpful

[VisOne]

I've got one for almost everyone of these but most are due to me being the most unlucky guy alive and since my shins are cactus I have hurt myself either at work or around the house.

[Retribunator]

thats alright Vis, I'm trying for one per person but if worse comes to the worse and no one wants to help out a team member in an environment centered around teamwork I'll use whatever you can give me

[KllrKirk]

Name: Kirk M.
Injury: Sports Asthma
Story: Aged about 17 played a Hockey Grand Final in Darwin, nearly couldnt breathe close to end of the game. Saw a Doctor following day, he said it was "Sports Asthma" gave me an inhaler (different to usual asthmatics) i never used it. Strange.

BTW We won the Grand Final...I have a Trophy:)

[GruAncH]

I've had heat stroke, heat exhaustion, bruising followed by a strain, some cramps & spasms and that was all in one session giving a fine lady some sexercise

[Bahlye]

BAHLYE :)

Broken knuckle...in a fight 19 yrs
Cracked ribs.. different fight(was with a rough crew in my younger days...mainly getting involved in fights/brawls they started....;) ). 20 yrs
Broken ankle...motor bike accident(hit by car)20 yrs
Broken wrist./broken rib/figernail torn off...car accident,went off the road at 150 kph after hitting a Kangaroo...ow 32 yrs
Got stabbed with a screwdriver after catching some #%&*er trying to steal my car...(I tackled him and two more of the little ****s jumped me...came off 2nd best in that one,he dropped the screwdriver as they pissed off,the cops got his prints off it and I had him bashed in Jail for a packet of tobacco....LOL).
last year
thats pretty much all...
From 19 yrs to 34....


Edit..OH srry Retrib...Sports Injuries....I did get a greenstick fracture(right arm,twisted it as I got tackled ,and then landed on it ,) playing league 25 yrs old.
And the bike accident was kind of a sports accident ,was on my way to the offroad riding area near home..(street legal enduro bike)

[Retribunator]

Thanks Kirk, but I could still do with your second name.

Graunch: Well, for every helpful person you have to have an extremely unhelpful person.

Bahlye: Thats a hefty set of injuries, but...none of it is new, I've already got info for fractures and nothing I needed was to do with stabbing

[GruAncH]

Ok I had a hyper-extention of my left knee in indoor soccer when a guy hacked my leg on a run with the ball trapped my foot and over I went knee locked and leg bent over in unnatural way.

[Retribunator]

now THATS what I'm looking for

[Shotgun]

Shotgun :)

I has Osgood-Schlatter disease which is a disease in your knees which make them hurt.

Dont know y its caused or how to fix it all i know is the more i excersice the better it feels

[Retribunator]

even if that is real shotgun, which I don't trust is after what you usually say, Its still not what I need for this

[Shotgun]

Tis real and u just said list your problems so :P

[Retribunator]

The categories are:
Cramps + Spasms
Strain
Sprain
Bruising
Heat Stroke
Heat Exhaustion


!!!!!

[Madhouse]

Does high levels of hormons during PE at school count? thats a problem many have regularly, including myself... just cant gert enough of the girls in tight pe uniform

[Shotgun]

Does high levels of hormons during PE at school count? thats a problem many have regularly, including myself... just cant gert enough of the girls in tight pe uniform


LOL do a bit of facing the wall do we

SIGABLE

[Jim]

Gruanch thats not appropriate, same goes for you Madhouse.

Keep it on track please.

SIGABLE
No, its not.

[AncientMan]

Gavin Ryde
Torn ligaments in right ankle
Happened 3 years ago. Jumping over a cricket boundary rope going out to bat on the final day of a tournament. It sucked, was in a cast for 1.5 months

Fractured right knuckle, the one where the little finger joins the palm
Did it punching a w%$#&r on the last day of year 6. epic fail.

Not sure if that is useful, but thats the only real injuries I've had.

[Retribunator]

Thanks Ancient, the first one's a good help

[Aresnik]

Name: Adam
Injury: Broken wrist
How you did it: Playing baseball and incorrectly slid into third base

Injury: black eye(s), sprains to thumb, busted nose, bruised ribs
How you did it: Boxing

Injury: Bruised top of foot/cracked ribs/sprained big toe
How you did it: Taekwondo

Injury: broken wrist
How you did it: bounced off a trampoline

[Retribunator]

ok thanks to every helpful persoN, THE TWO LAST CATEGORIES ARE HEAT STROKE AND CRAMPPS + STRAINS

[CaptAndy]

hehehe.... there is just something amusing with the phrase "hyper-extention"

[Retribunator]

Come on team, out of 17 people I'm sure at least one has had a cramp and heat stroke, these are like two of the most common!

[Kindros]

Only a small majority would get a cramp during sport though. And Heat Stroke is really only common to runners or marathon athletes.
Your muscles cramp from a lack of salts and build up of lactic acids. Which generally happens from perspiring and continues muscle movement, which will starve the muscle of white blood cells and in turn release the lactic acid.

The quickest and closest you will get is from a footy player who has done a hammy in.

And for heatstroke...Well I have had it, though it was nothing to do with athleticism. More of being in a very hot and humid climate, and not taking precautions.

[Retribunator]

well that heatstroke thing is good any which way if you can tell me your name and if you got it in an intersting way

[Kindros]

Mitchell P

Frolicking in a very hot and humid environment (Vanuatu 40-45DegC), straight off a plane from Australia where it was a very humble 30DegC

4litres of water and glucose powder later I was right at it again

[Retribunator]

can I get your last name man or is that info classified?

[Kindros]

For people I do not know personally it is :) P will have to suffice. Though it could be short for any number of last names you make up.

[Retribunator]

ok then, thanks for your help. Just one catergory left

[Bahlye]

Cramps...I often get them in my adominal muscles...mainly on the LH side (could be related to various rib injuries over the years...see earlier post).
happens mainly while working..lifting things or bending over engine bays on cars...
More of a muscle spasm really I guess...still really freakin hurts but....

Hope that is of use for you...
Rn Bryan Stevenson...doesn't bother me to post RN as its already in my Profile in Email address..
(just don't like google/yahoo slurp spider searching through our forums all the time....).

Maybe technically A sports injury as we have alot of race cars(saloon cars...VN/VP/VT commodores going through the workshop.....)..Moto rsports count?

[Retribunator]

OK thank you everybody, you helped me out immensely, this is how a team is supposed to work, mutually supporting eachother.

[bishos30]

Cramps and strains?

Name: Shane B

Injury: Strained inner thigh muscles due to lack of warm up after a long cool down period during soccer. Ended up tearing most of the soft tissue from my hip to my calf when I didn't stop playing. Didn't walk for the next week.

[Retribunator]

lol sorry Shane, you're a bit late to the party but I'll stick you in there anyway, thats a pretty brutal sports injury (But Vis still takes the cake).

[champsky]

champsky
broken hand in 4 places , pushed knuckle back supposed to have pin .
tore both muscles above hips completely in half playing league , bed ridden for five weeks . stabbed in leg missed femoral artery by centimetre 23 stitches . had kneecap fall out of left knee while making a tackle landed on closed manhole and split it open 16 stitches . broken nose numerous times .damaged nerve endings in my shoulders being an awesome tackler lose feeling down side of both arms . hit by bottle in eye almost lost top eyelid 5 stitches . still have all my teeth though . oh , shot in side of head with .22 , went through my eyebrow very lucky to be alive .

[Noddy]

got a scar on my left hand (which has lasted 22yrs so far) where my ice skating teacher stepped on my hand... I was doing it wrong :)

[champsky]

i had a couple of pig dogs that got heat stroke once .

[Wokeye]

Sport damage, eh?

Nothing serious to report, but:
Frostbite many times, soccer in Armidale, NSW, winter. Age 19-24
Various bruises/cuts/abrasions/cramps + ego damage, being hit with the disc and/or diving ('laying out'), Ultimate Frisbee ages 23-30.

[CHARGER_76]

Name: Charger
Sport: Gridiron
Injuries: medial ligament tear left knee.

Sport: Rugby League:
Injuries: Broken ribs. Broken collerbone.

Sport: PR
Injuries: Multiple gunshot wounds to chest/head/limbs. Grenade fragmentation. Also hurt whilst sliding down hills. Multiple Vehicle wrecks. Several knife wounds. Turned to pink mist by JDAM.

[Bahlye]

ROFL.....theres our comic relief.....

[JLycett]

Name: Jeff Lycett
Injury: Sprained knee
How it happened: Took a chop block to the legs playing grid Iron happened over 22 years ago and still have pain in the legs

Injury: Cramping in the legs
All the time during Grid Iron season when I was a Teenager

Injury: Heat Stroke
During basic training on a nice hot 100 F day we had humped about 20 miles with full gear made it back to the barracks and dropped as we fell out for the night. (Never take a northern yank and send to hell I mean the south during the middle of summer and run him 20 miles in full combat gear. Have the platoon ended up in a simlar state.)

Age:18

Help that helps I can give you a few other ones as well seprated shoulder broken ribs ect ect.