Worst Personal Injury

[Pugnacious1874]

This thread is painful reading.

Gave up footy at u19s due to recurring kneecap dislocation. Took up soccer and am running along one day and my leg basically fell apart - dislocated fibula at the knee.

You know you are in trouble when there is a large crowd of medical types gathered around the xray and the doctor has to go to his textbook collection to work out what to do.

While waiting to have it surgically put back together I hopped out of bed for a call of nature and everything suddenly snapped back into place - which was 10 times more painful than the original incident.

 

[Plugger_87]

suffered from heart break in 1997, 2009 and 2010

 

[Fitzey]

A dislocated ne-cap...

 

[Vikingblood]

Worst injury at the time was a fractured sternum after being sandwiched. Could not move at all without massive bolts of pain. Ended up getting it wired, but nice scar to show the kids. Had 3 knee reco's, but it's OK until Winter when it aches like a bitch.

Most gruesome injury was biting off a chunk of my bottom lip. Got flattened when lining up for goal and had my mouthguard out. Ah suburban footy.

 

[Lifetime ban]

I posted the list of injuries I have had, but this is in a way the best non-injury. Was playing basketball in the old Coburg Giants home court. Went up for a lay up in practice and came down like a sack of spuds. The guys at the other end of the court heard the ankle pop. Went to Royal Melbourne for x-rays, came back as a severe sprain. Couldn't even get a footy sock on over it it was that swollen. Went in to see the then Essendon Team Physio in his office in Keilor Rd, and as soon as he looked at the foot, he asked which bones I had broken. Just kinda laughed and said it was just a sprain. Do think it must have been a good one though cause the hospital stuck it in a half cast, which I never got with any of the other ones I did.

 

[BG32]

Went up for a lay up in practice and came down like a sack of spuds

How does that happen?

 

[Lifetime ban]

How does that happen?

Basically had my foot dragging, and when I came down, I landed on the top of the toes and foot which just popped everything. Stayed a lurvely colour purple for about 3 weeks.

 

[fabulousphil]

This thread is painful reading.

Gave up footy at u19s due to recurring kneecap dislocation. Took up soccer and am running along one day and my leg basically fell apart - dislocated fibula at the knee.

You know you are in trouble when there is a large crowd of medical types gathered around the xray and the doctor has to go to his textbook collection to work out what to do.

While waiting to have it surgically put back together I hopped out of bed for a call of nature and everything suddenly snapped back into place - which was 10 times more painful than the original incident.

your kidding me right, it all just popped back in ?.

What did the doctors say ?.

 

[Blue and Silver]

I don't feel nearly as injury prone next to you guys. Playing football a couple of unconfirmed concussions (by which I mean, I woke up and kept playing without telling anyone, but there is a black spot after an impact) and several ankle sprains.

Outside of football I had my head rammed so far forward my ribs were sprained. But that's BJJ for you

 

[nickrebellious]

10 years of Basketball: Two broken ribs.
2 Seasons of Footy: Ruptured ACL.

 

[Boxhead_31]

Once got pinched 300 times in a game

 

[Big Bryza]

How do u move with no acl, mcl or pcl???

MCL and PCL heal themselves, however the ACL doesn't but in time you can learn to run straight lines without it.

 

[Big Bryza]

If you tear your acl doesn't that mean you have to have a reconstruction?

If its a slight tear then no but a full tear/rupture requires a knee reconstruction. 9 months post op myself. Full tear to my ACL, MCL, LCL and a partial tear to my meniscus. Did it late last season and sitting out a full season sucks. Hurt like hell and such a slow recovery. As much as I want to get back out there next year I'm just not sure if I could go through a rehab process like this again. Physically I am feeling pretty good at the moment. Time will tell.

 

[ConfuciusSays]

Tore ligaments in both my ankles (right ankle was the most severe) a couple of years back when playing juniors on seperate occassions. Shit thing is it never really goes away.

 

[Clements]

What is the worst personal injury posters have done during their football / sporting days?

Patella tendonitis was the worst for me thankfully (from a very average football career).

I'm dealing with this from playing basketball at the moment. Played with it in my left knee for a few years and then last year suddenly had it in both knees. Last December I finally decided to do something about it and haven't been able to play basketball since. It's very....very...very slowly improving though!

 

[Roddy]

Played footy for ten years. In my 8th year I broke a finger.
In my 9th year I got a ruptured ear drum and then a broken leg. They could apparently hear the snap on the boundary 20 metres away.
Then it got really ugly.
In my last year, I copped a stray knee in the guts which ruptured my spleen. I was rushed to hospital, they opened me up and apparently found 2 litres of blood in my stomach. They told me I was 20 minutes from death.
I was going to be a footy player. But all that kinda put an end to that. I took up the drums instead at that point. Much safer.

 

[Macca_]

Did all these injuries have a psychological effect on you guys once you returned to footy? Personally, I know that I'm not the same footballer that I was before I got injured.

 

[Pugnacious1874]

your kidding me right, it all just popped back in ?.

What did the doctors say ?.

Oh that's good, but we'll put you in a full leg cast for six weeks anyway.

I'd been in a sitting/lying position since it happened and that was the first time I'd been vertical and the leg was hanging under its own weight which apparently did the trick.

 

[Julie_L]

Not playing footy, but - broken rib while travelling in Nigeria. (I didn't go to the hospital, funnily enough).

 

[pazza]

Did all these injuries have a psychological effect on you guys once you returned to footy? Personally, I know that I'm not the same footballer that I was before I got injured.

It's funny really...being a goal umpire and having got hit whilst straddling the line correctly, you do try to make precautions so as not to be hit again.

 

[FyfesBoot]

Celebrated a grand final win just a little bit too much and got a hiatus hernia from vomiting so hard. For the uninitiated that's a tear in the diaphragm large enough for a portion of the stomach to poke through. Hurt like hell just to breathe deeply, then I got the flu and sneezing and coughing was not a pleasant experience. Took ages to completely heal.

 

[Ahern2Boof]

Dislocated my shoulder in my sleep one night last year. Woke up in excruciating pain, mum came in, popped it back in for me, and took me to school. Had a SAC that morning, so I couldn't miss it. Haven't had any issues with it since, nor did I beforehand.

Have suffered a concussion in footy, plus a broken toe and a kick in the neck that made my voice all croaky for a couple of days.

 

[Falchoon]

Torn PCL playing basketball.

Made both free throws


Also broke 3 fingers on a team mates hand playing mixed netball

 

[jive]

I've had a terrible run over years - most of my injuries have been quite traumatic.
The worst injury I've had in terms of being life threatening was stacking it on a mountain bike onto a bed of rocks, taking a huge gash out of my upper left leg. I was in complete shock and couldn't look, but bystanders and the ambulance officers said you could see my femoral artery pumping. Spent 2 weeks in hospital to let the wound heal.

Worst sporting injury was a dislocated shoulder playing rugby.

Most painful I've had was a shattered ankle from jumping into shallow water - complete AGONY. 4 months rehab to repair the 3 broken bones and 2 torn ligaments.

 

[Cylon7]

Osteitis pubis.
Diagnosed by two AFL doctors...yet never had any sign or symptom...or diagnostic test.