Everyone's got one. That old injury that starts flaring up about this time of year when the weather gets colder and damper. The twinge that makes sleeping difficult and getting up even harder. What's yours?
I damaged my shoulder ligaments doing a forward pavement dive while out training for the London Marathon back in 2010. I didn't go to the doctor immediately as I was starting a new job the very next day. I had physio for a while but (of course) didn't keep up the exercises. It was so bad I had to use my other hand to move my arm from keyboard to mouse ot to shake hands, and couldn't open doors or undo my bra for months.
It's just started flaring up again. It was too painful in the neck/shoulder/upper back area this morning I physically couldn't lift my head from my pillow and had to roll out of bed :pinch:
Had a broken knee cap during my military service. Have a 3 inch scar on my left knee where they cut to screw it back together. Itches every now and then and when the weather changes.
I twisted my knee pulling some amazing dance move in a club on Mallorca in 2004. It still bothers me sometimes if I cycle in cold weather. :(
A few years ago I thought it would be a good idea to go as fast as I could on the running machine, and beyond. The calf muscles on the left leg complained, and they are still screwed to this day. Talked to a few doctors and physiotherapists, and did some ultra-sound tests, but nobody has any clue what the problem is. It has improved a lot compared to the worst days, but I still feel that something is off there. The physiotherapists observe that the muscles there are visibly...wrong.
The fact that I still insist not doing any warm-up, stretching or cool-down before, during, and after my exercises may have a bit to do with it. Or it may not.
My right knee is very stiff and often doesn't work at all.
Its not based on anything. It just started up 2/3 years ago and sometimes comes back and....doctors know nothing.
Went to a physio once and she said it was something to do with a tendon (or whatever it is) on one side being very weak whilst the one it worked with was very strong but that seems off to me.
I suffered from Osgood-Schlatter disease when I was a kid, and my right knee never fully healed up. Every time I exercise, it's the first thing that hurts. It also makes a very noticeable clicking sound when I fully bend it backwards (although doing that doesn't hurt).
I have a bad ankle that I twisted pretty badly playing basketball when I was 15. It never fully healed and last year I injured it again at the gym. Fortunately it doesn't hurt much normally, but in some ocasions it does, after standing for a long time or walking a lot.
Blew out my left elbow in Vietnam at Khe Sanh.
None.
I broke both of my thumbs (not at the same time) paying basketball when I was young. There wasn't much they could do about it and they still hurt and get fatigued pretty quickly, which can be a problem as an electrician.
When I was two, my parents went to pick me up from some sort of two year old school, and when the teacher called me over to go home, they found I had a rather large cut on my cheek. It left a faint but definitely visible scar. No one knows how it happened.
I have so much fun telling people stories about how I got the scar. :) It really works well in dimly lit bars when people don't notice the scar. I can tell some horseshit story that involves someone cutting my face, people are like, "Did that really happen?" And I'm like, "Yeah, and if you look hard enough, you can even see the scar right here", and then they look close and are like, "whoa." :)
Smashed my head tobogganing as a teen in a truly freak accident. Left me with a small and faint scar, and a damaged inner ear - which sometimes causes bouts of vertigo - only when my head is in a certain position.
Yep, I have ... brain damage. :D
I've got a ton.
- In the first place we moved to in South Jersey, we had an old couch with a protruding nail. Mom and Dad kept bugging the landlord to get rid of it, but he kept dragging his heels until one day, I tripped and slashed my face- another centimeter closer, and I would have lost an eye. At that point, Mom and Dad pushed the couch out of a second-story window. Still have the faint scar on my face, probably part of my socialization problem since it shows up when I get mad and go red in the face.
- When I learned to ride a bike, I was on a basketball court with about an inch and a half drop to the dirt around it. Since I learned to ride before I learned to stop, I took a fairly nasty spill and ended up with a spoke through the knee.
- Speaking of impalement, I managed to step on a sewing needle that had fallen on the floor in such a way that it went through one toe, bent around, and went through the next one, effectively stapling them together.
- Huge scar on the inside of my elbow, down near the bottom of the bicep. Don't remember what gave it to me, but it was nasty- been there since I was a kid, and it's still about 2cm by 1mm. That severe, I would have come pretty close to severing a tendon.
- Nose is crooked from being broken several times, once Giraldo-style where I bent over the side of a chair and ended up with the chair on my face and then lost a good deal of blood in the bathtub from the broken capillaries.
- I have half a right wrist; I broke it when I was 12 climbing a low wall, about a centimeter of bone snapped away cleanly, but the orthopedist didn't pin it. The hand now permanently sits on an angle, and is basically arthritic since half the joint is missing.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/668/21109397748_ceca370617_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yanbvA)
Playing pickup basketball in college. Went up for a jump shot, came down on someone's foot. I could hear the ligaments snapping.
I walked with a sort of club foot for about 20 years, but after rehabbing it (again) I haven't really noticed it much.
Quote from: Brazen on September 10, 2015, 04:14:41 AM
Everyone's got one. That old injury that starts flaring up about this time of year when the weather gets colder and damper. The twinge that makes sleeping difficult and getting up even harder. What's yours?
I damaged my shoulder ligaments doing a forward pavement dive while out training for the London Marathon back in 2010. I didn't go to the doctor immediately as I was starting a new job the very next day. I had physio for a while but (of course) didn't keep up the exercises. It was so bad I had to use my other hand to move my arm from keyboard to mouse ot to shake hands, and couldn't open doors or undo my bra for months.
It's just started flaring up again. It was too painful in the neck/shoulder/upper back area this morning I physically couldn't lift my head from my pillow and had to roll out of bed :pinch:
back problem. A crate of windows fell on me when I was 14yo, I tried to keep it standing upright, made an arc with my back, had problems since then every now and then.
Also, recurring back and leg problem on my right side since my last ATV fall.
Oh, and the constant headaches and now dizyness whenever I try to train.
My therapist says I should listen to my body. I think it says to stay on the couch, and don't move 'til the age of retreat.
Quote from: alfred russel on September 10, 2015, 09:07:02 AM
When I was two, my parents went to pick me up from some sort of two year old school, and when the teacher called me over to go home, they found I had a rather large cut on my cheek. It left a faint but definitely visible scar. No one knows how it happened.
Are you: Tina Fey.
Quote from: Malthus on September 10, 2015, 09:15:42 AM
Smashed my head tobogganing as a teen in a truly freak accident. Left me with a small and faint scar, and a damaged inner ear - which sometimes causes bouts of vertigo - only when my head is in a certain position.
Yep, I have ... brain damage. :D
It is not called damage if it made you smarter than before :lol:
Supinator syndrome in my right forearm ever since last year. Physical therapy has made it all but disappear, but it still flares up every now and then.
I have broken some toes and lost toe nails, but those don't hurt right now. Knees hurt bad all the time and lately even my right foot has been hurting. Hips hurt sometimes, shoulders hurt sometimes, lower back pain sometimes, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc... Mostly joints and the abusing my body for many years. I still run BTW. :)
Back injury that I hurt when in my 20s. I'm usually ok but every now and then if flares up. It never really kept me from being in good physical condition when I was younger, and it even mostly stopped bothering me in my late 20s and beyond though as I said it can flare up. Old neck issues as I've had arthritis there forever so I sometimes get headaches from neck strain.
Biggest thing is being on blood thinners due to blood clots. I went through a tough time with that a few years ago and so I'm on the thinners for good. I get checks at the doctor's office about once a month to monitor that the things are at the right levels. I don't seem to have any ill effects but I do have to be careful about bleeding if I injure myself.
I have a friend who has a giant 4-6 inches scar on his cheek.
The story is, when he was 6 years old, he was climbing down the stairs with his father just behind him. His father trip, kicks him which propulses him thru 2 glass door face first.. My friend say only a scar is pretty good, his face was a mess.
I lost my head once.
I had a bad ear infection when I was 24 that lasted for months. I ended up with tinnitus after that. I can't stand to sleep without any white noise so I usually leave my tv running, or computer, or a fan or something.
Won't he get tired?
Let's just say I had some form of injury from age 14 until 20 and I now feel all of them.
My right upper Tibia is a complete reconstruction, bone from a cadevar around which living bone has grown, held in by metal plates and 16 or 17 screws.
Something in my neck is probably messed up from when I took a roller-coaster ride, and my neck flexed enough that my chin hit the bar. I couldn't turn my head for a week. If I hold my head up with my neck muscles, the same area ceases up rather uncomfortably pretty quickly.
As best as I can guess, I tore a ligament from trying to lift a fat person about eleven months ago. Didn't notice it at the time, but for six or seven months, I could barely do anything involving my right shoulder. I've only started doing arm and chest exercises again recently, and I can still feel that it's not 100%.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 10, 2015, 06:28:24 PM
My right upper Tibia is a complete reconstruction, bone from a cadevar around which living bone has grown, held in by metal plates and 16 or 17 screws.
Are you a construct...
Quote from: Jaron on September 11, 2015, 03:14:00 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 10, 2015, 06:28:24 PM
My right upper Tibia is a complete reconstruction, bone from a cadevar around which living bone has grown, held in by metal plates and 16 or 17 screws.
Are you a construct...
He is the modern man.
Spelling! :mad:
Almost one year ago, while trying some l33t tricks ( :rolleyes:) playing football with my son, I violently hit the outer side of my left foot with the other foot's shoe heel.
The bone did not snap, but I think I damaged it in some way, because I could barely walk for the following ten days, and it hurt for the next 30 days and more.
I did not go to a doctor, but now I regret it because it still hurt sometimes, in the mornings and when I go biking.
Remember boys, football is dangerous for your health!
L.