Old Sports Injuries

[Mr. Scot]

I know we've had this discussion once before, but the topic came up again today as we were talking about camp news.

How many people here have old sports injuries from football (or whatever sport you played) that still come back every once in a while to remind you of their existence?

Tell your story. Just think of it as a walk down memory lane...

(via stretcher)

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

Injured my knee on kickoff return trying to make a block. Almost 20 years later and it comes back now and again 

[RJK]

I’ve got 3 pretty good ones.  At 13 I took a puck to the mouth. Knocked out my front 2 teeth and pushed the 3 teeth to the left back and up into the roof of my mouth. Emergency surgery while wide awake. They pry the teeth out of the roof of my mouth and wire everything together. Pretty gnarly when you’re spitting out pebble sized chunks of teeth.

Broke my wrist freshman year football. Grew up pretty poor so you had to be close to death to see a doctor. Basically two weeks pass while we wait for my sprain to go away. Realize it isn’t getting better and go to the hospital. Bone had started to knit crooked so they put my arm in this contraption that holds ur arm like ur raising ur hand with a 90 degree angle at the elbow. Slowly adding weight until it rebreaks and they can set it properly. My arm sounded like boat rigging being stretched. 
 

Lastly but not leastly I was a decent skater in my 20s and I remember trying a switch backslide flip down a 12 stair at the concord nc courthouse. Came close a couple times, then the next thing I remember is waking up in an ambulance just covered in blood, no idea where I was. 10 stitches in the back of my head. not a big deal but ever since then I get chronic migraines. 

[exactlyzack]

So I have a sport injury but it wasn’t caused by a sport. I fell in a shower about 8 years ago and fell awkwardly on my arm and shoulder and because of that caused multiple different injuries, one of them being a bit of a special injury. I suffered a grade 4 AC joint sprain, which is significantly rare. Apparently it usually happens in football and requires a catastrophic impact. It was rare enough I had to go a handful of different doctors before they finally figured out what it was. Anyways, I’ve had surgery on it and the other issues, and yet, every time the pressure changes or temperature drops, I can feel the ache and pain all through my upper shoulder, collarbone, and down my arm. It’s rough. I know it wasn’t caused by a sport, but my doctor told me he had only seen one other like mine in the last 25 years and it had been caused by a football play. 

[Ornias]

Took a helmet to the knee in HS. There was no "scoping" in the 80's. Finally had it replaced in my 40's. 

[Riverboat Ron]

I used to be a great pitcher in High School, like probably would’ve made it to at least minor leagues even if I didn’t improve, took a line drive straight to the head and was unconscious for a while. Doctor said If I took another hit like that to the head I’d probably die or suffer worse memory loss than I got from the initial hit. Sucks not having a thick skull. 

[ScottyAbe31]

I'm Canadian so it's all hockey injuries. Snapped my shin bone(Tibia) in half, had surgery to insert plates and screws into it. Was in pain for 10 years. Started mild then got worse as time went on. Had surgery to remove the metal 3 months ago, sill recovering.

Aside from that I've broke my wrist, fractured foot twice, multiple knee ligament injuries(can't bend past 90 degrees without them popping), cracked ribs twice, two concussions, broken big toe, sprained vertebrae which caused a bunch of back muscle issues, split my eye lid in half, and broken my front teeth 15 times. I'm sure there's more but all I can remember currently.

[SmokinwithWilly]

4 concussions. 3 grade 1, 1 grade 2. 26 years later some of the original symptoms are now coming back to the forefront. Not terrible but noticeable as I've gotten older. 

Also had my knee bent sideways and that pretty much ended my football career. It was never the same after. 

[Snake]

Honestly the only injury I got was snowboarding. Was doing a 50/50 on a rail and came off wrong and ruptured my tendon in my thumb. Now before it rains it hurts. 

[TheMostInterestingMan]

Tore a tendon in my middle finger in college playing basketball. That was brutally painful but the road to recovery wasn’t so bad. BUT

I snapped my Achilles playing basketball in a YMCA league at 26. That was horrific. The pain was intense and making a full recovery took over nine months. I still have a wicked scar and while I can run around, hike, play sports now etc I will still sometimes get an aching feeling just above my heel if I’ve been working out or running extensively. 
 

ACL injuries are no doubt terrible but snapping your Achilles results in losing pretty much all of the burst and spring you had in that leg. It just doesn’t ever work like it used to after the fact. 

[Khyber53]

You guys have such cool stories. I tore my meniscus trying to carry too many groceries up the steps and into the house.

[Navy_football]

8 hours ago, ScottyAbe31 said:

I'm Canadian so it's all hockey injuries. Snapped my shin bone(Tibia) in half, had surgery to insert plates and screws into it. Was in pain for 10 years. Started mild then got worse as time went on. Had surgery to remove the metal 3 months ago, sill recovering.

Aside from that I've broke my wrist, fractured foot twice, multiple knee ligament injuries(can't bend past 90 degrees without them popping), cracked ribs twice, two concussions, broken big toe, sprained vertebrae which caused a bunch of back muscle issues, split my eye lid in half, and broken my front teeth 15 times. I'm sure there's more but all I can remember currently.

Got dammm!!! You've been in the fray!!!

[ncstatekwi]

Right shoulder from playing baseball growing up!!

[Castavar]

10 hours ago, RJK said:

I’ve got 3 pretty good ones.  At 13 I took a puck to the mouth. Knocked out my front 2 teeth and pushed the 3 teeth to the left back and up into the roof of my mouth. Emergency surgery while wide awake. They pry the teeth out of the roof of my mouth and wire everything together. Pretty gnarly when you’re spitting out pebble sized chunks of teeth.

Broke my wrist freshman year football. Grew up pretty poor so you had to be close to death to see a doctor. Basically two weeks pass while we wait for my sprain to go away. Realize it isn’t getting better and go to the hospital. Bone had started to knit crooked so they put my arm in this contraption that holds ur arm like ur raising ur hand with a 90 degree angle at the elbow. Slowly adding weight until it rebreaks and they can set it properly. My arm sounded like boat rigging being stretched. 
 

Lastly but not leastly I was a decent skater in my 20s and I remember trying a switch backslide flip down a 12 stair at the concord nc courthouse. Came close a couple times, then the next thing I remember is waking up in an ambulance just covered in blood, no idea where I was. 10 stitches in the back of my head. not a big deal but ever since then I get chronic migraines. 

A switch backside flip down a 12 stair? Dude, you were fuggin insane! The fact you were even trying anything switch down a 12 stair is crazy enough. That's pro level right there lol