The hospital inducing injury list

[Plummet]

OK team,

How have you fubar'd yourself up?

Here's the thread rules. The accident must have sent you to the emergency room. If you didn't go to the emergency room, you weren't injured.
Bruises, cuts, scrapes, torn stuff that doesn't require surgery ect don't cut it. Also stitches don't cut it (pun intended) unless its a 10 stitches minimum.

Oh, please separate non mtb to mtb injuries.

Mtb injuries
Broken pinky, One Rib, Several toes
Cracked radial head
Two front teeth caps smashed out (Smashed the caps off from the kayaking injury)
Scafoid ligament torn - surgery
Hernia - surgery

Non mtb injuries
Two front teeth smashed in half - white water kayaking

Pretty minimal injuries really for my reasonably silly riding lifestyle.

One that doesn't make the official injury list but is hilarious AF is a penis laceration.

Photo for proof of sillyness level.

 

[paul.williams_1981@yahoo.]

5 broken rids, punctured lung and dislocated shoulder in one is my worst accident on the bike so far.

I have repeated first and third injuries multible times on the mtb. As well as may breaks and cuts that H&S count as none reportable.

Other sport related injuries:

Dislocated knee right leg( snapped muscle and tendons) required extensive surgery.

Dislocated knee left leg. Keyhole surgery.

Fractured knee and ribs on back of cage.

2 x broken colar bones

Fractured tiba.

3 bones in my foot

I could list a few more. I probably shouldn't go out.

 

[steve_sordy]

You guys win!

 

[Powerslider]

I’m not sure I should share the really gory images, but I broke the tip of my left ring finger almost completely off. I basically stubbed my finger so hard I saw a stump when my finger broke through the glove. The tip was tip was still in the glove, so I pushed my finger back in the glove; placed the tip where it should be; then used my pinkie as a splint and wrapped electrical tape around them both as sorta a trail side compression bandage. I also broke my thumb but I guess it was strong enough it wasn’t a compound fracture. Luckily the surgeon reattached it and it’s 97% as before. Just really don’t have full feeling. Must have severed some nerves.
In the same crash I also really stretched a ligament in my shoulder; and cut my face on a rock. This is why I now wear shoulder (and chest-back) protection; and a full face helmet.
The messed up part is I was about as far from my car as could be; and I had to finish riding down a black downhill. All with a left hand that couldn’t grip anything.
I kept one of the pins that was in my thumb. I keep it on the bike as good luck.

 

[MOG]

Broken collarbone 9 weeks before a trip tothe Alps. Treated conservatively and managed to make and enjoy the trip.
Last October managed to wash out at speed on a carpet of acorns and fractured my thumb. Had to have 2 pins inserted while it healed, which it did quite quickly. Then fell off and punched a tree with same thumb leading to a few more weeks of pain and worry only to have a sheep head butt the same thumb just as it had begun to feel better. It is OK now but still not 100%

Outside of MYB I got caught in a rockfall while climbing and lost 3 teeth and had severe facial lacerations and a broken scaphoid and broken nose. Proablby my worst injuries.
I also managed to severe a tendon in my braking finger while laying a hedge! Luckily it was the extendor tendon so I was still able to ride and pull the brake, just couldn't straighten the finger very well. The A&E doctor took pity on me and stitched it back together under local after he finished his shift ...

 

[Euro]

I don’t I should be permitted entry to this thread . I’ll have a think on the bike related ones, but here’s a teaser of my most recent injury…

 

[Plummet]

What is with you guys stabbing ya selves with stainless wire?

 

[Plummet]

I don’t I should be permitted entry to this thread . I’ll have a think on the bike related ones, but here’s a teaser of my most recent injury…

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Tried to clean the lawn mower out with ya foot while it was still going? That looks like there's a story to tell.

 

[HandsomeDanNZ]

I have been lucky.
A few broken bones playing football and many, many sprains.

My eldest son has had a few injuries - mostly bike related:
Still has the titanium to prove it.
Collarbone shattered after coming off a surgeon's table at a bike park (how ironic)
Forearm snapped in two (twice in 3 months) - second time required a titanium rod inserted and screwed to the bone. That second one was railing a berm when his arm just gave way and made the shape of an L halfway between the wrist and elbow.

My brother has borked himself many many times, but that's what happens when you are nearly 60 and ride in Queenstwon and Wanaka, I guess.
Latest one for him was a broken hand, broken ribs, separated shoulder and punctured lung, whilst riding a blue flow trail with me just after Christmas.
I had a sore bum from an uncomfortable saddle. I reckon I had it worse.

 

[ozzybmx]

Night ride in 2009, fell off against a razor sharp shale rock. Cutting a deep flap on my leg so off to the ER for stitches. No big deal

3 days later I'm in agony, my leg is twice the size and the pressure build up started squirting puss jets out from between the stitches, back to the hospital quick (nearly ambulance as I couldn't move)

Plastic surgeon cuts my stitches open and cleans over 40 small pieces of rock and wood that the young ER doctor obviously didn't clean out. Spends the next 7 days drugged out in hospital bed on IV antibiotics and oxycodone, now my leg would now have to heal open with no stitches for the next 6 weeks. Apparently very serious and if it wasn't opened and cleaned when it was, I could have lost my lower leg with infection.

Done ribs, collarbone, wrist and other lacerations in far worse crashes but this one could have had the biggest impact to my life.

 

[Iamthearrison]

Hit black ice riding to work, landed on my back. Painful, but got up, took a minute, then carried on. About 5 miles later dud it again. Carried on to work, now in a fair amount of pain. Did a very uncomfortable day at work, then rode home. Woke up the morning after in agony, so went to minor injuries. 3 broken ribs and chipped the corned off my shoulder blade. Signed off work for 2 weeks because I couldn't safely do my job with the painkillers I'd been given.

 

[irie]

When racing motorcycles was a start line crash at Snetterton caused by front row qualifier not getting his bike in gear so when lights went out everybody launched and there was a massive pile up. I was pinned under my bike and could see riders I knew being treated by medics. One rider died, another survived a punctured lung with an oxygen cylinder feeding him oxygen, lots of broken arms, legs, elbows and wrists. I had an acromioclavicular separation which was repaired with a Nottingham Surgilig and titanium bolt. Grid looked like had been loaded into a massive skip, shaken up, then dropped onto the track. Many never raced again ... but I did.

And guess what, the rider who caused the pile up didn't attend the inquest for the deceased rider.

 

[Euro]

I hope you folks have hardy stomachs…

 

[cantaloupe]

Cracked my pelvis in Morzine. No surgery needed fortunately. Just tired at the end of the day and made a silly mistake into a tree

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Motorbike Vs car. Bike was a write off, leg is now titanium.

 

[Plummet]

I hope you folks have hardy stomachs…

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Frost bite?

 

[pagheca]

You guys win!

The real "winners" in this category are those no longer among us...

 

[irie]

Perhaps necrotic diabetic foot ulcers.

 

[RustyMTB]

Doesn't look like sunburn does it.

 

[The Hodge]

April'23.
Not being clipped in after slight drop off..pedal induced injury ..

Local hospital at Hexham for a clean up..then main A& E the following day at Cramlington where it was decided no stitches were required and it should heal naturally ( mistake! ) ..with the end result being a lovely indent scar as a war wound ..
Ive had other internal injuries over the years but that was the one that worried me the most when blood was spurting / pulsing out glad that I'd a first aid kit in my pack and mates around to help bandage it up .

 

[Jasong911]

Dislocated thumb while just getting to the bottom of a rocky pitch. About 200 feet from the parking lot. Took a month of no riding to heal up to the point where they could decide that surgery was necessary. Then another month of no riding when I decided I was ready. Well, all was fine until 50 feet from car and washed the front. Broken index finger on other hand, separated shoulder on bad thumb side, bad gash on shin. Was 200 miles from home so decided to let my brother drive home and go to ER the next day. Got patched up but 3 days later was back due to the gash getting red and painful. I spend the next two days in the hospital with bag after bag of antibiotics flowing. Now more of the leg is involved and they decide to go in and scrape out the infected tissue. That finally got the job done. No riding for about 4 months, but I could get into a ski boot.

 

[skizzian]

When racing motorcycles was a start line crash at Snetterton caused by front row qualifier not getting his bike in gear so when lights went out everybody launched and there was a massive pile up. I was pinned under my bike and could see riders I knew being treated by medics. One rider died, another survived a punctured lung with an oxygen cylinder feeding him oxygen, lots of broken arms, legs, elbows and wrists. I had an acromioclavicular separation which was repaired with a Nottingham Surgilig and titanium bolt. Grid looked like had been loaded into a massive skip, shaken up, then dropped onto the track. Many never raced again ... but I did.

And guess what, the rider who caused the pile up didn't attend the inquest for the deceased rider.

I saw a guy have his hand removed at Snetterton ('83 maybe) Go karting his wrist went through the back axle- St Johns ambulance weren't really up to the task! my second boarding school was about a mile away, used to watch races and go to the market at weekends...