in the 5 or 6 years ive been working out, i’ve had two broken wrists, one broken elbow requiring surgery, and a spinal surgery. I am all too grateful for the body and health i have, and consider myself lucky. In no way am i trying to bitch about setbacks, its apart of life. I broke my wrist 10 weeks ago, spent 9 weeks in a cast, and have not been able to get a doctor to read my xray, to tell me if its broken or not. they said they were going to schedule me an appointment in a month or so. i found that ridiculous, to walk around a month not knowing if my bones healed. anyways am getting off track here. i was ready to get back to boxing, when i cut my hand on a fence. i mean really cut,i was hanging form an 8 foot fence by my hand. this is pretty much healed, and i just got my wisdom teeth removed.
it seems like it never ends, although , im getting out of this slump. The whole time i was in my cast i was killing my legs and have seen some good growth. Ive decided if i am to skatebaord and snowboard, i must go about this differently, as i cant afford any more injuries.i also have to make smarter choices in life, like not jumping an icy fence, with one hand. anyways, the point of this thread was to see what setbacks have you guys had. as i know, my elbow alone took a year and a half to get back to strentgh.
not as severe souding as your’s, but lets see. sprained ankle( was on crutches for three months, and used a cane for a month), hyper extended knee just when my ankle had healed, another sprained ankle- other ankle. Only three injuries, but they’ve sidelined me for damn near a year.
Let’s see, in the last 20 months I’ve injured both shoulders, neither of which are still 100%, bulged a disc… bad, broken my right foot and big toe, popped the cartilage holding 2 of my ribs together and really bummed my left knee from running which I can no longer do.
I managed to train around all of that and still make gains though much care and ego resistance was and is sometimes necessary to do it which is the point. Use your head and you can overcome these obstacles or push yourself and pay with a very long or permanent layoff.
I still have to really be aware when training upper body because of my shoulders, especially the right even though the left was hurt or at least felt like it was hurt worse.
im glad im not the only one whose had injuries.Sounds bad, but you know what i mean. for awhile i thought you guys were all blessed with no injuries. none of my injuries were training related. so once i get back to full health. im hoping in 2 weeks. i will be training weights in the afternoon and two hours of fighting at night. i cant wait.
I strained my left wrist extensor from playing guitar, which slowly built up and inhibited my lifting for a month or two. I also had some tendonitis in my elbow from playing drums, which made me take it easy with lifting for a while too. I think that it took several months for my elbow to finally start feeling better. Funny how music has hurt me more than weights.
I used to get a litany of sinus infections over the years. After a couple of surgeries and quitting smoking I finally got that under control.
This year I’ve had a broken hand sprained both ankles, bilateral stress-fractures in my tibia. And tendinitis in in both forearms and both shoulders. Yet, some how I am my strongest ever.
Set backs happen, I just never quit. If my hand is broken I’ll work my legs and cardio. If my ankles are hurt, I work upper body and gentle cardio that won’t hurt my ankles.
I chipped the pole of my tibia and the fragment is embedded in my patellar tendon. Nothing they can do about it except for give me some aleve and tell me to stop squatting. Apparently, it is highly unlikely that I will ever be able to squat again.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
I chipped the pole of my tibia and the fragment is embedded in my patellar tendon. Nothing they can do about it except for give me some aleve and tell me to stop squatting. Apparently, it is highly unlikely that I will ever be able to squat again.[/quote]
You need surgery.
They should be able to pull that fragment out arthroscopicly.
[quote]pat36 wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
I chipped the pole of my tibia and the fragment is embedded in my patellar tendon. Nothing they can do about it except for give me some aleve and tell me to stop squatting. Apparently, it is highly unlikely that I will ever be able to squat again.
You need surgery.
They should be able to pull that fragment out arthroscopicly.[/quote]
I asked the doctor about it and he said that due to the size of the fragment, surgically removing it from the tendon would likely cause more harm than good. If the pain doesnt go away after six weeks of rest, NSAIDs, and wearing a brace, then we make look at surgery but he is wary of going that route due to the amount of disruption it would cause to the patellar tendon.
I’ve been pretty lucky thus far. Tore a lat muscle (rightside) doing deads and had to take a month off heavy stuff, hyper’ed my knee surfing, another month off any heavy lower body stuff and today I “tweaked” my leftside lat doing deads, probably take a week off as I’ve got an irrating shoulder pain too.
My main goal is not getting injured when I train. So far, I’m been pretty good.
I am the most injury free I’ve been in a while right now which is awesome, but now I’m kinda feeling like a wuss. The names ya’ll got for some of these injuries are AWESOME and I wish I had gone to the doctor more to find out if my injuries were cool enough to have names like that.
In all seriousness though injuries f*&^ing suck! Seems like there’s always something, but luckily for me it’s usually minor stuff that doesn’t keep me out of the gym too long.
Yeah, you definitely have to work around whatever you can. i was doing dead lifts 4 days after having my wisdom teeth removed… and yeah, i think i strained a bit too much. my jaw is throbbing.