Breaking bones

Eglinton

After watching this jaw dropping footage, I was thinking to myself that not alone have I never broken any bones myself, I've never seen anyone break anything despite all the sports I've participated in. I can't even begin to imagine how painful this sort of thing would be.

Only watch if you have the stomach for it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7F9Ar64v-Y

Have you ever had a really nasty break yourself or witnessed such?

antodeco

Ive never broken a bone. However, I was ice skating yesterday. Firstly, I went head first into the ice and thought I broke my ribs. Luckily I didnt. Then, to top it off, I went full speed into a chair at the end of the kids section. Luckily, my balls acted as an airbag, so I didnt injure myself :rolleyes:

orestes

Shattered 2 inches of my left femur when I was 4, had to have bone transplants and the likes with bone taken from my ankle, a surgery that wouldn't have been performed until I was 14 under normal circumstances and subsequently ended up being a medical case-study that is used in text-books these days apparently. Spent a year in hospital recovering and rehabbing and learning to walk again, then six months after I got out of hospital I shattered the transplant and have the whole thing done again. The surgery were team were none too pleased for that bit.

Yeah, breaking bones sucks, poor guy in that video is in for a hell of a long recovery by looking at that and his career could well be over.

Redzer7

Eglinton wrote: »

Have you ever had a really nasty break yourself or witnessed such?

Yeah had a really bad break/fracture on my left arm a few years ago.
Doctors told me I was lucky not to lose the arm and that was a relly big scare, I damaged nerves and had
two operations on it really big scar now and my left arm has fully recovered so am delighted happend on the 21st of august a good few year ago still remember the date :pac: the physio on the arm is really painful,
But sure Im a man :pac::pac:.

Snakeblood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ_RR9WjUlI

Don't tell a steroid riddled 300 pound man to jump down onto one leg. It will not end well.

I always used to be a bit envious of people who had broken limbs. Most of the ones I knew had recovered fully soon enough, being kids (as I was at the time). I then went sleepwalked out a 1st floor window barefoot, and let me tell you, you may think it's worth the pain so you have an awesome cast to sign, but it's not.Not even remotely. I woke up clinging to the sill, went 'What the **** is going on?' and immediately let go, smashing down onto my right foot, into grate which was conveniently located below. I was sitting there for a bout half an hour. At that point, I thought I'd just sprained my foot. It was dark, and I couldn't really see it inflating. I hopped up onto one leg and tested out the other foot, which immediately gave me searing pain. I collapsed again.

About then, someone came by and asked if I was alright. As a tip to any future idiots, if someone asks that, don't say 'Yeah, fine thanks' while sitting in your underwear. It's not going to provide results you want. The dude wandered off. I spent another 10 minutes whimpering and eventually started moving by putting my two hands on the ground, hopping my good foot forward, wincing every time my bad foot was jolted.

Awesome stuff. I eventually managed to get to the doorbell, which I rang. A dude who I couldn't see because I was totalyl hunched over in pain at that point, answered the door, ad went up to my mates flat to get me. I then thought it would be a good idea to continue hopping up the stairs, because I had no idea my foot was broken. When I got up the stairs, I collapsed on a sofa. The fire brigade came round, and started making jokes about the whole thing. I didn't really think it was terribly funny, but on the other hand,t hey were carrying me back down the stairs on a stretcher at that point, so I thought I'd let them have their fun.

Then I was brought round to the Mater, where I lay on a gurney in the Emergency for about 16 hours, off my head on pethidine and whatever I could get. At various points, a junkie tried stealing my stuff, but a guard stopped him (good for you man), and a news reporter came around and asked me my opinion of the forthcoming nurses strike. I made the radio, I understand. That's how my workplace actually found out I wouldn't be in that day.

I wouldn't, on balance, break your foot, if it's a straight choice between doing it or not. Although I did beat Final Fantasy 7 in the month off. Swings and roundabouts I guess.

Run_to_da_hills

Broke six ribs in a car crash and a big toe on a motorbike.

orestes

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Broke six ribs in a car crash and a big toe on a motorbike.

And people say bikes are more dangerous than cars :pac:

Fajitas!

You know those footrests at the bottom of the bar? Well I was about 11 or so standing on one of those ordering a sandwich, My right leg slipped down between the bar and the pole/footrest as I fell back.

My lower leg wrapped backwards around it, and cracked in several places. A few people got sick when they realised what that cracking noise was.

My name is URL

I broke my wrist when I was younger, had to have surgery then because it began to heal out of position.

I don't really remember the pain, sure it hurt at the time though

ps. that video is sick!

seanybiker

broke some bone in me wrist years ago giving some fool a smack. Chased him down the road the next day cos I had to wear a cast.

genericguy

am i the only one that thinks that red card was totally unfair and that no foul was committed?


oh, and broke my right foot three times. broke big toe on said foot twice.

EDIT: oh yeah, right hand aswell, fooking twice!

Neamhshuntasach

I've had quite a few bad breaks and injuries. Most of the ones when i was younger were from getting knocked down. I thought getting knocked down was a part of everyones childhood but apparently not. I've broke one leg (kicked by a horse), an ankle and both wrists from when i was a kid.

Later on i've broke my nose, an orbital fracture on my eye socket, dislocated shoulder, broken ribs, spinal cord injury from a fall against a goal post. Was in a wheelchair for almost a year because of that. Broke 6 fingers and my left arm.

All the above are from playing Gaa and kickboxing. One was from a kayaking accident. Been injury free for the past 2 years though.

Lollipops23

never had a proper break,but when i was 15 i was running away from a load of knackers with my mates and glanced behind me.bad idea.clipped my hip off a piller quite hard, took a chip off the pointy bit of my hip bone.:(

the worst part was that you could feel the little lump pof bone moving around under the skin for a few weeks before it broke up.

Redzer7

Lollipops23 wrote: »

never had a proper break,but when i was 15 i was running away from a load of knackers

Them and their Hiace vans .

JohnCleary

Broke my spine. It hurt. Lots

dr.bollocko

I once bounced my jaw off of a rock from about 13 feet up. The rock won. Missed a gig because of it. Bummer.

Novella

When I was three (or maybe four!), I broke my jaw and my nose!

I broke my big toe when I was eight, in an Irish dancing competition and still won a medal!!!

I broke my wrist when I was about ten, pushing my neighbour on a swing.

When I was twelve or thirteen, I fell off a horse and broke my elbow. Had to have pins put it to put it back in place.

I broke two of my fingers at some stage during my twenty years as well but can't remember it now. To tell you the truth, I don't remember any pain at all with any of my broken bones but maybe that's 'cause I was young!

Tar.Aldarion

I've never had a broken or fractured anything. I broke somebodies nose and somebody elses leg though.

wudangclan

was training one night and me and my coach got a little too close to the wall.he threw me with a fairly innocuous throw but my head was going to hit the wall so i stuck out my hand to protect me but my hand went into a gap where there was a pipe at the bottom of the wall,got stuck and my weight came over the top of it.
snap.
i went to the mater but it was bunged and i wasn't in too much pain so went home ,smoked a couple of joints ,fell asleep and went to the hospital next day.
they went nuts,said the bone was flapping about at the arteries in my wrist and insisted on performing surgery straight away.
i never went back for a check up so i still have the plate 3 years later.
can they stay in forever or will they go a bit rusty?

edit: forgot to add the bit where they touched a nerve during surgery so my thumb and 2 forefingers were frozen for about 6 months. handy that!

PirateShampoo

Broke the top half of my Femur back in 2003, never again.

6 months before i was off crutches and never experianced pain like it. Also i got the trots in hospital and had to lie in bed with a bed pan under me. Then because i was cabbaged i had to get the nurse to wipe my arse.

Never again.....

Insect Overlord

Broke my collar bone in an accident at football training nearly four years ago. The guy I collided with had had his broken on two separate occasions when he was younger :eek:

JohnCleary

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Broke the top half of my Femur back in 2003, never again.

6 months before i was off crutches and never experianced pain like it. Also i got the trots in hospital and had to lie in bed with a bed pan under me. Then because i was cabbaged i had to get the nurse to wipe my arse.

Never again.....

I knew I was in hospital for too long when I didn't have to think twice about askin the nurse to wipe me arse

Run_to_da_hills

orestes wrote: »

And people say bikes are more dangerous than cars :pac:

Funny you say that, Im biking since I was 18 driving almost 10 ears later, my old man kept on advising me to get a car and yet I nearly get killed in one. Have best of both worlds now.

Snowie

Ive broke quite a few bones

Mossy Monk

I always believed that I had never broken anything but a doctor thinks I may have broken a finger years ago as it is twisted at a weird angle. It really hurt at the time

I broke my breast bone in a car crash - caused by the force of the seat belt!

Otis Driftwood

Ive had my nose broken a couple of times but I dont think that really counts.



*feels left out,kicks stones

SeaFields

The buddy was cycling home from the pub one night (as you do!) when he attempted to hop the bike onto the curb after going down a hill. The front wheel of the bike never took off so his face went into the handle bars.

He broke his jaw, cheek bone and nose, fractured his skull, lost all his front teeth top and bottom and bit off half his tongue. He says he cant remember the first month in hospital as they had him dosed up to the nines on various stuff.

He still has the handlebars off the bike with the impression of his front teeth left in the steel!

OUCH!

(we used to have manly "who has suffered the worst injury" type conversations in the pub...cant do that anymore)

January

Broke my tibia and fibula on my left leg when I was 12. I was playing football.... and ran into the goalpost... the way I fell broke the bones... I forgot to mention the goalpost was a breeze block...

I had to have two screws inserted, still there. My left leg is now slightly shorter than my right... fun.

rossism

Broke my wrist 3 times cant really remember the pain do.

rainbow kirby

Never broke anything, but dislocated a bone in my foot in a karate class when I was 15.

stovelid

Collarbone
Nose
Ankle
Thumb

Not all at the same time though.

Mossy Monk

Deleted User wrote: »

I broke my breast bone in a car crash - caused by the force of the seat belt!

Better than your head going through the windscreen.

Randy Shafter

Broke my right wrist more times than i can remember, broke my left arm and cracked my left elbow. Its always fun when you hear the bone break.:eek:

Blowfish

Never broken anything.

Did witness a guy lose his finger once. Not cool.

Quazzie

My list is as follows (bottom up):
Broken Ankle - Playing football
Shattered Kneecap - Car crash
Compound Fracture Thighbone (bone exitted the leg) - Car crash
2 ribs - Playing Rugby
Left Collarbone - Playing Rugby
Right Collarbone - Fell out of a tree backwards
Right Forearm - Car Crash
Right Hand (twice) - Fighting
Dislocated Jaw - Car Crash

The car crash was by far the sorest of all these.

Blisterman

A physiotherapist advised me recently, that if you suspect you have a broken bone, don't go to the Emergency Department, go to an animal hospital instead.
Apparently, they'll x ray and bandage you immediately, rather than waiting six hours without painkillers as I did once, for what turned out to just be a bad sprain.

I'd love to know if anyone's actually tried this.

bluto63

Blisterman wrote: »

A physiotherapist advised me recently, that if you suspect you have a broken bone, don't go to the Emergency Department, go to an animal hospital instead.
Apparently, they'll x ray and bandage you immediately, rather than waiting six hours without painkillers as I did once, for what turned out to just be a bad sprain.

I'd love to know if anyone's actually tried this.

Also I've been told sometimes they don't use the traditional x-ray, but have a machine which can x-ray 360 degrees, so it makes a 3d replica of your bones. Just a rumour I heard, but I thought it'd be great to see

Mrmoe

This is the worst I have ever done a couple of years back.

Riddle101

Broke my elbow after I jumped off my shed roof when I was 7 and I broke my nose after running into a guy when I was 6.

PCPhoto

broke my arm playing football a couple of years ago (only went to hospital 'cos my hand turned purple after two days) ..... think I might have broken a couple of fingers/toes over the years ...but never went to hospital with them.

had the tip of one of my thumbs chopped off (by a hedge clippers .... I was 3 at the time so dont remember ANY of it.)

Steffano2002

Broke ribs and toes... Things for which there's nothing you can do anyway... I consider myself lucky as I race motorcycle and play rugby (I hope my luck never run out)!

markok84

I fell down the stairs in school when I was in second year and made clean sh*t of my left ankle, it still clicks today when I'm walking around. The boss was ringing my mother everyday for a month after it to make sure I was "okay". I knew bloody well the only reason he was calling was that he was afraid I'd sue.

K-Ren

I've never broken anything, but sweet-zombie jesus that video from OP was of Eduardoise proportions.

truecrippler

Fractures my left wrist when someone kicked a ball from beneath me whilst I was sitting on it. Really painful... I remember going into the hospital the morning after and the doctor was squeezing it... so sore!!!

Clare Bear

Broken 2 ribs, shin, both wrists, 2 fingers and my nose.

Think that's it. I'm clumsy. To be honest I've found spraining my ankle worse than most of the breaks (apart from the ribs, fook that hurt!!). At least when the bones have healed that's it but with sprains it can often cause you more problems down the line.

Mossy Monk

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Better than your head going through the windscreen.

ya think :rolleyes:

cython

Fractured my left wrist in TY when some scumbag in my class decided to trip me during the PE class. After much toing and froing from the local general adn regional hospitals, I was told I'd broken one of the bones right through, and the fragment had been displaced, so I'd have to be put under GA while they repositioned it. This despite the first doctor I saw telling me it wasn't broken at all, only to be corrected by a nurse - thank god someone caught it there, or who knows how it's have healed!

More recently, I fractured my left humerus back in May of this year. Roughness on the path surface caused me to lose control of my bike while cycling, and I came off the bike elbow first into a wall. I heard the pop of the break on the way down, and also felt something hit me in the head - I realise since that this was most likely my arm flailing after being broken, as there was no mark or injury on my head. Sat up, and while my arm felt like it should be in my lap, it was splayed out away to the left, so little doubt there as to it being broken! The radiographer further proved that when she let my arm slide off the trolley after taking an x-ray, and it ended up hanging down, bent at the fracture site, rather than at a joint! I also damaged a nerve in the process that meant I couldn't extend my hand or wrist for about 2 months or a little more (and I was lucky to get it back that soon!)

Hopefully that'll be the sum total of fractures I endure, but you never know!

homerun_homer

Thankfully no broken bones ever. I'm good at avoiding that type of thing. Nearest I've come is possibly fracturing a finger when kicking a football around with friends last year.

mirwillbeback

Broke my left femur in a football accident when I was 20. Felt no pain initially, but leg was bent at right angle from the thigh down, and I grabbed my toes to straighten the leg. It was surreal feeling, almost like a dream.
Loads around so kept up bravado but once ambulance doors closed I bawled like a baby. Also, speed bumps in Vincent's hospital, taking the piss or what?

hoochio

Don't know if this counts but while loading a cow into a trailer she kicked back, steel door caught me in the face and broke my nose. Didn't get anything done with it and now very little sense of smell! Doc told me a couple of years later that it is pretty messed up inside!