T-Nation -
I hope that this forum does not become a “____ hurts, what do I do?” forum, in which people never actually talk to doctors. To hopefully remedy this and have a good position, I want to start a thread for a personal injury I’ve had while playing rugby. Here’s the story:
On April 24th, off a mid-field scrum from around our own 30 meter, we win the ball out to the left side. I lined up on the right as the inside center (we split our backs for the scrum). I end up at full speed and catching up to the ball as our wing passed the ball back inside to me and I broke away down the touch line (sideline). About 10 meters out, their fullback came from inside in an attempt to tackle me out of bounds.
He wrapped up on my thighs but wasn’t massive by any means. He was able to pull my knees in however when I resisted the tackle trying to push through. My right knee bowed in and twisted from the force, and did not feel good when I ended up down on the ground.
I ended up with my lower body in touch one way or another, and accidentally touched the ball I had dropped. The other team got the throw, and I hobbled into position, and knew pretty quickly something was wrong, and there was no way I was playing the rest of the game. Luckily, the other team screwed up their line-in throw, I called for a sub, and hobbled out of there. We scored off that play on our line in.
That afternoon, I thought I would be fine, yeah no big deal. I limp out to the post game social, and dinner. I don’t go out that night with my teammates, instead I ice up, and watch some hockey. Next day I end up going “oh fuck I need to get this looked at.” - I go to the local hospital, they put me in a knee immobilizer and on crutches.