Have you ever had an accident or broken any bones?

[sydney]

Broken little finger
Spiral fracture and dislocation of ankle (at same time).
Plus punctured fluid sac in the knee.

All whilst playing in goal.

spiral fracture left fibula open fracture tibula.......eggshell fracture right ankle (46 countable pieces) same time ......not recommended at all....copius amounts of opiate based pain killers resulted in no poo poos for 10 days.......but that is another story....!!

 

[gregbrighton]

I'm actually regretting a bit starting this thread...

 

[Hiney]

Hey Hiney, was this your sub-talar joint?

I've had ongoing left ankle joint problems for best part of 50 years now - various football-related ankle-ligament injuries but the real issue is 45 years of bowling fast cricket balls [gradually getting slower as the weight gained over the years] - anyways, now got an appointment with the specialist orthopaedic hospital at Gobowen. I think they are going to offer an arthroscopy flush-out first but the final option is joint fusion. I've yet to find anyone who has been able to do any kind of active sport after a S-T fusion. Would love to know your experience ....

Accidents, way more than I can remember or care to count - and I consider myself quite safety conscious now.
In terms of breaks - given the years I rode and raced (and crashed) motorcycles, I think I got off very lightly.
Left wrist & left thumb socket smashed / pinned
Lots of "gravel rash" - leathers all very well but the friction still leaves its mark ...

I'll PM you later, unless anyone else wants to see the before & after X-rays and be bored by the story!

For me, it wasn't about returning to active sport, more to stop the constant pain and for my leg to not look like it was going to snap at the ankle.

I was actually pleasantly surprised at how much movement i've got after the op, as 'fusion' implies a completely rigid joint. I walk (pretty much) normally now and can jog gently, as long as I wear my proper trainers. I can do walking football and cycling.

 

[Ameliaance]

Broken arms when I was 12 yrs old, I fell from our stairs.

 

[willow147]

1 broken bone and 1 fractured bone, both in the neck, in 1982 in a motorbike accident.

Broken wrist playing 5-a-side football sometime during the 90's.

 

[catfish]

Went to the first few games at the Amex wearing a hard collar having broken my neck a few months earlier.

 

[The Birdman]

Broken leg Brocken hand twice Brocken ribs twice once falling of a groin in Norfolk beach and once skining after lunch in Tignes carried on skiing for another three days just hurt when I laughed.

 

[goldstone68]

I've broken a few hearts in my time, does that count?.

 

[Yoda]

2nd, 3rd & 4th metatarsals playing football

 

[aolstudios]

Yep, broken at least one of just about everything. Football, rugby, misspent youth, road accident & general clumsiness/recklessness to blame

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Broken ankle first day of secondary school warming up for football, fell into a rabbit hole ffs

 

[Surrey Seagull]

I've had my right leg broken 12 times (all operations) most of those was before the age of 7. Accident wise, I've broken my wrist, hand and foot but pain wise tearing ligaments was far worse!

 

[Jbanged]

Broken neck in 1981, in Cyprus. I ran down the beach and dived in, into a sandbank.

I broke my neck the past August. Doctors said I wouldn't walk or use my hands again. Here I am typing and just returned from a long walk in the mountains.

How was your recovery?
Mine hasn't been easy by any means

 

[lawros left foot]

I broke my neck the past August. Doctors said I wouldn't walk or use my hands again. Here I am typing and just returned from a long walk in the mountains.

How was your recovery?
Mine hasn't been easy by any means

I was really lucky, i chipped one vertabrae, and cracked two. I was in a soft neck brace for ten weeks, but I was allowed back to my ship to come home the same day. When I went to see the civvy neck secialst when we got home, he went mental, saying I should never have been allowed back to the ship at all, let alone sail on her, and he was going to be asking serious questions of the RAF doctors who treated me in Akotiri.
I don't know what the outcome was, but, thankfully I made a full recovery apart from some stiffness in my neck when it's cold and damp.
I hope you recover, as I have.

 

[Wellesley]

Broken neck in 1981, in Cyprus. I ran down the beach and dived in, into a sandbank.

That's not funny................................

 

[cmonbarrybringonwoody!]

I broke my hip 6 months ago tripping over a bucket at home. I was the youngest person in my ward by about 40 years

 

[Megazone]

I broke a finger knuckle once when I was arguing with my girlfriend.

Luckily for me, she came out worse.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Skull smashed in forhead bone shattered and went into my brain almost died.
I was attacked on my way home from Bromley College when i was 18 in Beckenham in broad daylight ( had just been playing football for my college )
by a load of blokes who had been on the piss and drugs all day.
They battered a young off duty copper who was not much older than me too he apparently was going home to his mums house where he still lived, he saw me being attacked and bravely waded into them and got a terrible kicking himself.
I owe that lad my life and i still talk to him now he's a DCI.
I never even saw them until the court day.
The Police said if it hadn't have been me it would have been the next person along the street, I was in the right place, unfortunately at the wrong time !!
I was knocked out with a hammer and then one of them sat on my chest smashing my skull in with a Grolsch bottle whilst the others joined in kicking me breaking my leg and my arm too.
I spent 6 months in the Brook Hospital In Shooters Hill, they called my mum straightaway to be with me as they were sure I was going to die.
But i had things to do in life like, become a Nurse, support Albion, and annoy some of the **** stains on here ha ha !!

 

[banjo]

Collarbone when I was 17 trying out a jump on my BMX. Broke my toe, caught it in the gap of my decking about 10 years ago.

This reminds of that scene from Jaws when they're comparing scars from shark attacks.

 

[The Optimist]

Broke someone else's leg playing football when I was about 10. It was a bad break with the bone almost sticking out the side of his leg, a nice white bulge.