spode@thinkbikes Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 I just thought I'd post my latest injury. I was doing a gap hop from a wooden rail (you know the ones shaped like ^ at the top). And my backwheel was too far back, i.e on the downslope. I went to kick off and it just shot me up in the air and I fell in to the gap from a fair amount of height, STRAIGHT on to the side of my right foot. After about 20 minutes of writhing agony and several people walking and driving by me lying on the ground, I managed to just about get home. I went to A&E the next day. Really impressed with the way they dealt with me. Took an X-RAY as they thought I'd cracked it. Turns out I was very very lucky and it is all soft tissue damage (tendons, ligaments flesh etc). It's still incredibly painful though and I couldn't walk on it for 2 days. Annoyingly, they said the best thing for it is to just put up with the pain and walk on it, otherwise it'll cease up! Needless to say I've gotten very good at holding back the tears :P They've told me 6 weeks until it's healed. But I'm a fast healer so I'm hoping to be riding in another week. Annoying up and down movement isn't too bad, but side to side is EXCRUCIATING. Which means anything that involves turning on a bike is really painful (oh yeah, I've tried already :P) So I did this 3 or 4 days ago I think. First picture is either on the day I did it, or the next morning. It already had a fair amount of ice on it. Now this one was taken this morning. It's hard to see thanks to Mr Flash, but it's currently turning my whole foot a lovely shade of green/black. I'm not sure if you can see the impact on the very right hand side (that bone that runs down there). It's quite wierd how my foot was swollen NOWHERE to do with the actual injury! Apparantly feet have a habit of doing that. It's still very puffy and makes me look like a fat man :lol: And while I was downloading them from my camera, I found this picture. This was doing a 180 gap hop from a brick thin wall to a brick thin wall. I missed and caught my leg on the pedal and tyre. Pretty huh? The red marks are where I do a lot of spinny things and my leg seems to have build up a tough area of skin to deal with the impact :S Almost my whole leg went green. WOO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trialsriderjim Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 heres my knee about 5 weeks ago getting better thow keeps getting bigger then smaller lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impacted. Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Dude, add simon lord to your msn contacts his name is "physio" on here 'neway he helps people out with that sort of stuff, tells you what sort of excercises to do etc... Looks nasty, I did something like that a few months ago, it sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trialsriderjim Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 yer simon is a great help tells me eveything to do !!and is one of my really good mates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted November 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 I went out on my "normal" bike today to cycle to the post office to pick up a parcel. And it felt fine, even for tricks. So I jumped on my trials bike and a SUPERB ride this evening. The doctor told me that I'd probably find riding easier than walking and she was right! YAY YAY YAY!!!! Now I just have to wait for my new frame to arrive. Got me a KOT MS2 :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
street trials rider Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 (edited) January 2005 (this is actually my most recent alothough so long ago) bad quality picture, but this is when i landed on my head from 16ft !!!!! ... knocked clean out, fractured skull THROUGH my helmet aswell :P and it was the safer, :D piss pot style helmet Back-end hung up on the sub-box... front wheel went into the top of the halfpipe, and i kept going doctors say i'm VERY VERY lucky to be alive, let alone still able to walk :blink: went back about a month later to go see some friends.... and it turned out they had to sand half the ramp because of the amount of blood that was there :S Edited November 18, 2005 by street trials rider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted November 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Physio has been in touch with me just now. Looks like riding wasn't such a good idea, he's going to talk me through some stuff. Damn NHS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houseface Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 some really bad stuff there, got me thinking about drops now.....and helmets :blink: :S no too bad by i keep getting big chunks out of my shins from my pedals, there is sooo much blood that it looks fake. steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted November 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 no too bad by i keep getting big chunks out of my shins from my pedals, there is sooo much blood that it looks fake. Well, I've been riding for 7 years I think. My shins are more scar tissue than they are skin :blink: If I don't come home bleeding from a ride, it wasn't a good ride! I've actually had rides were things didn't seem to be happening. then I fall off, cut myself. The adrenalin boost of hurting myself is enough to kick my riding back in to shape! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Balls Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 hey spode...i did exactly the same thing to my right foot when my chain snapped doing a 180 drop gap over some stairs :blink: I couldn't walk for at least a couple of days...but didn't go to hospital. Turned greenish black and everything just like yours. Well..it doesn't hurt anymore but its still got bit of that lump...and this was last year :S I was pretty worried actually...swelled up big time..and hasn't gone down. Maybe i should see someone... no worries :P adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted November 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 I vageuly recall doing a similar thing 5 or 6 years ago and it kept returning. I didn't do it quite as badly as this mind you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted November 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Talked to Si. Did some diagnosis over photos and webcam. Turns out it's a torn tendon and it probably should have gone in a cast. Meh. ****ing NHS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Hey spode i done the exact thing landed on me left foot pointing inwards towards me right off the back of a bench, by any chance did you or feel to click like cracks, i tryed to walk it off i got a metre then lyed on the bench and the A&E gave me the same advice but lucky for me my mum had a broken ankle and used her crutches, took me week and a half to ride again and even then it jolts and in complete pain again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted November 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 I don't remember any cracks. Just pain! I think Si and I are getting to the bottom of this :S Looks like I'm going to have to take more time of riding than I would have hoped for :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/gallery/1092..._1092955989.jpg http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/gallery/1126...0_335_27768.jpg http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/gallery/1126...0_335_10415.jpg http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/gallery/1122...0_335_10295.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 I'm currently in a cast having had Si sort the ligaments in my ankle out. I hadn't done anything major to it recently but had ruptured one of them a few years back playing football and they'd healed in the wrong place giving my ankle far too much play. 3 weeks in a cast left (have been in it for one already) as there was a slight fracture when he was sorting it out. Should be out of it and back on my feet by crimbo, then hopefully riding by feb at the latest :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janson Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Damaged a ligament in the foot, talked to Si, go to physio here, should be riding by chrimbo. Foot was well swollen, just happy nothing broke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmowerman Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Tore the main ligament in my left knee in july. Not ridden since :) It hurt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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