What injuries have you had?

BrianD3

I am interested to hear what injuries (if any) people have had from weight training, cardio, playing sports etc. I would like to know what is a "normal" amount of injuries to pick up so I can compare. Also feel free to use this thread to discuss injury prevention and treatment.

I've been doing weights very regularly for 2 years. First injury was when I tweaked my groin doing sumo deadlifts. This was very minor and only caused me slight discomfort during sumo deads and none at all other times. Took 2 weeks off from deads and it cleared up.

I have gotten some discomfort in my elbow and shoulder after trying to do a one arm chin up. I diagnosed this as tendonitis and it only lasted a day or two.

The most annoying injury is a recurring neck strain which happens quite regularly. I used to get this long before I took up weight training. It can happen during any exercise. I strain something in the side/rear of my neck, the muscle tightens up and it becomes painful to turn my head. When I get this it always goes away after a few day's rest. It is annoying though and I might actually get some professional advice on this one.

Boru.

Brian does you neck pain manifest on one or both sides? Is it sharp, or a dull ache? Also do you find it running from the back of the neck down across to the front e.g. the strenoclitomastoid muscle, or is it predominently down the back of the neck say into the shoulders or trapezius? If you cna give me a few more details I my be able to offer a treatment.

BrianD3

Boru, it can happen on either side. But only ever one side at a time. I have looked at diagrams and it appears to be further back than the steno..oid muscle. I would describe it as like a spasm or tightness rather than a sharp, jabbing pain. It doesn't run down into the arm or upper back or shoulder, it is localised to the neck. Light stretching a day or so after it happens seems to make a big difference to healing. Any ideas?

daveirl

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copacetic

moving down the body
stitches above eye, in chin, numerous back eyes, broken wrist, torn groin, hamstring, quad, calf, shin splints, ankle ligaments, plantar problems on foot and plenty of broken toenails.

in fairness though this is over about 18 years of various sports

g'em

i've been lucky to be relatively injury free apart from a few minor-ish incidents...

i was a hockey goalie for years, but used to train with the boys coz the girls' team were unbelievably wimpy and couldn't manage a decent shot at goal between the lot of them . made the mistake of not wearing a box on one of my first training sessions with the lads... sustained a rather painful groin injury courtesy of a high-speed rock solid hockey ball chipped right between the legs.. trust me, its just as painful for girls.

earlier this year i damaged my sacro-iliac joint on the right side from running on concrete- turns out i have flat feet but instead of my knees going which seems to be the norm, my back practically crumbled in half mid-way thorugh a run one day. could barely walk for a week, sneezing made me wail in pain. a month of physio, new insoles and lots of ice-packs eventually helped. try to only run on treadmills now

Imposter

From GAA football: Manys a sprained finger and the occasional bloodied nose (from getting hit by the ball or diving into the post)
From hurling: A sliotar to the eye which left me temporarily blinded but eventually the sight returned when the swelling and blood behind the eye dissappeared. Also a dislocated kneecap from a flick of a hurl, fell back into place almost instantly but ligaments badly damaged.
From soccer: From messing around at home I broke my middle toe. That was probably the most painful injury i've had.
From Skiing: Sprained my middle finger when I landed on my skipole. A few other bruises and strains from relatively high speed wipeouts but nothing serious, thankfully

I've also had various strains from neck/shoulder to leg muscles. Nothing overly serious or long-term.

p.pete

ITB
Pulled muscles

dudara

I weight-train and practise Taekwon Do.

I landed badly from a flying side-kick last November and damaged the medial ligament in my left knee as well as tearing the hamstring insertion point at the back of the knee. It never really hurt, but it couldn't takemy weight for about a week, and every so often, due to the hamstring injury, my knee would spasm, and lock in the most painful fashion.

Oh I forgot, a cracked rib after walking onto a side-kick

Iago

Broken Nose Twice
Broken my upper arm and dislocated my elbow
Cracked 3 ribs
Couple of groin strains
Broke my finger
Slipped Cartilage in my knee
Torn ligaments down my right calf
Sprained both ankles
Fractured my right ankle twice
Ruptured the ligaments in my left ankle

and now I'm suffering from constant pain in both my right knee and lower back. My Physio reckons it's because all the musculature around my body is wrapped so tight from injuries I've had that it's putting enormous strain on my lower back. Could require 12-16 treatments in order to release enough tension around the body to make a discernible difference to me.

All Soccer injuries btw

roastie

broken finger
fractured arm
broken ankle
tendon damage in my right knee

they were the worst
a few muscle strains (groin , hamstring , sprained ankle)



thats it from the last 10 years of rugby .

Dutchboy

Rugby injuries of dead consisted of heavily brusied ribs the whole way down my left side caused by 6 forwards falling on me! And lots legs and back spasms! Spasms stopped affecting me once i started weights though!

Other than that, at the moment i have chronic injuries due to gluteal muscle and hip weaknesses which is f**king up my knees, and very poor control of my shoulder blades! Been down since Christmas!

Some muscles just decided to stop working!

Oh and various groin, calf and thigh strains from Tae-kwondo over 2 years

poobum

jesus... where to start!!!iv broken every finger at least once(and my right thumb 3 times). dislocated my shoulder, broken my foot, broken my knuckles twice, torn my back(2 weeks ago and strained in loads oftimes), ligaments in knee pulled, neck pulled a million times(prop), and things lke bruised ribs etc...
at the moment i have a torn back and a sprainedfinger!!!
all above from rugby!!!

BrianD3

I am not very sporty myself. The only sports I've done are soccer, swimming and golf. Nowadays I do weight training, some punch bag work, some swimming and have just recently taken up golf again after a long break.

The injuries I described in the original post are the only ones I've ever had. I was known for being a hard tackler in soccer and probably caused a few injuries to others but never to myself. Also I have never broken a bone despite numerous falls out of trees, off bicycles etc. when I was a kid.

joker77

Soccer - broken finger, broken nose, numerous sprained ankles (weak spot for years!), pulled quad (sprints), pulled hamstring, broken foot, bruised ribs, bruised shin (bleeding caused back of calf to turn black).... prob more minor ones I can't remember....

Road running - ITB

Punch bag - tendonitis, ganglion (finger), rotator cuff inpingement

babypink

most recently... separated AC joint

rugbug86

torn knee ligaments
torn achillies, foot ligaments and pulled calf muscle - all in one go!

Hooly22

I have tendinitas (i dont even no how to spell it!!) in my knees. and my calf muscles constantly swell up (does that happen to anyone else?) i also have constant problem with my shoulders and upper back and get alot of knots and tense muscles. I also have problems with my ankles and thighs!.
U did gym for a about 5 years i think. 5 days a week. altogther 17 hours a week sometimes.
Now i play hockey but still have alot of muscle trouble

DAEDULUS

when is started weight training i used to wake up the day after with terrible pains in my back from doing deadlifts with retarded form

other then that...ive never broken a bone or torn anything,never felt serious pain...ever really,exept maybe getting my hand caught in the door when i was young...im starting to think im invincible

LegacyUser

Never broken anything. I have strained my knee ligaments when i was like 16/17 but that was just because I was going through a growth spurt I reckon. That occured from playing soccer. Of course I have had bruises and gashes on my knees and legs and ankles etc but no real sprains or anything.

Cake Fiend

Been lucky so far. The only break I've ever had was my leg when I was 2! Otherwise, mostly little karate injuries - bit of nerve damage in my elbows (particularly the left) when I got both legs swept and landed hard on both elbows, broken little toe on my right foot which now doesn't bend properly, slight wrist sprain when I fell awkwardly snowboarding, and once took a kick which bruised a rib and in a demonstration at a seminar a couple of weeks later some big clumsy oaf kneed me right in the same rib, cracking it. The rib took the longest to heal :mad:

Farls

Soccer: Dislocated both knee caps, various sprains on ankles also.

GAA: Sprained most of my fingers

Weights: Dislocated right shoulder (being a newbie), strained back/neck and still get pain in my shoulder now and again. Also get the worst pain down the backs of my forearms when i work the biceps hard .

Kickboxing: Bloody nose and 2 cracked ribs.

Boru.

Hi Brian

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