Broken arm from a bike crash that resulted in two surgeries.
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What's the most painful injury you've suffered playing sports?
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I was fortunate that I was never seriously injured playing sports when I was younger. The only time I really got hurt, I slid into a catcher on a play at the plate. My leg went into his shin guard, which caused him to fall on my leg. I knew immediately that I was hurt, but I got up and tried to walk. I couldn’t put any weight on it, but I somehow finished the game limping around. Over the course of the day, my leg started to get back to normal, and was just sore for a few days. Don’t know what the injury was, and didn’t need a doctor. Just a lot of pain for a little bit.
Playing Judo when I was 16, got thrown by a guy who’d been to the Olympic trials. Severely dislocated my elbow- as in after I hit the mat I rolled onto my back annd my left elbow felt like it was in a vise. My upper arm was against my side and my lower arm was sticking out at a 90 degree angle, only my palm was flat on the mat 😬
Got up on my knees and as my arm dangled down, it rotated back into place. That’s when the pain hit. Got taken to the ER, by the time I got there, you could have hidden a grapefruit in my elbow.
Had pain in that elbow for years . Had pointless surgery after 10 years, wasn’t healed until 20 years post-accident when I went to a Sports Medicine specialist.
Got up on my knees and as my arm dangled down, it rotated back into place. That’s when the pain hit. Got taken to the ER, by the time I got there, you could have hidden a grapefruit in my elbow.
Had pain in that elbow for years . Had pointless surgery after 10 years, wasn’t healed until 20 years post-accident when I went to a Sports Medicine specialist.
I shattered my wrist playing basketball. Did nerve damage so bad I had to go to therapy just to be able to make a fist and hold a pen again.
Torn hamstring. I was a fast sumbich w dreams of being the top 100 man at my HS in my senior year. Track coach was a numbnuts, had us line up cold to try out to run in meets. Boom, busted hammy.
My sophomore year I had to tackle George Addams (SP). He ran me over like a freight train and stepped on my cup whilst trucking me, my cup cracked and pinches what it was protecting. Yellow pants with a bunch of red in the middle. lol (i can laugh about it now).
People who don’t play soccer, don’t realize how hard the damn ball is off a goal kick, and how it hurts when you go to head it
Mine was at transy basketball camp. I got a steal and went up for a layup, and a dude triple my size damn near took my arm off and wrist smacked against the wall really hard. I broke like 3-4 bones in me my wrist on that play
Three broken ribs and a punctured lung playing football. Worst injury I’ve had in any walk of life. It hurt to breath for months.
Broken femur - running down a fly ball and strided into a hole while leg was fully extended.. snapped and I knew it was broken.
ACL complete tear - twice, playing basketball.. hurt more than the broken leg but only for a few minutes.
The broken leg was much more traumatic but I think I went into shock a bit. Reality set in when they drilled a whole through my knee to put a pin through it so they could get the leg straight.
Had some broken fingers, hand, nose, eye orbital, clavicle, etc..
The broken eye bone and clavicle weren't sports injuries.
Just had the right knee replaced in December so it's gonna be good. But I'm still carrying a rod in my left leg all these years later, the broken femur was the worst.
ACL complete tear - twice, playing basketball.. hurt more than the broken leg but only for a few minutes.
The broken leg was much more traumatic but I think I went into shock a bit. Reality set in when they drilled a whole through my knee to put a pin through it so they could get the leg straight.
Had some broken fingers, hand, nose, eye orbital, clavicle, etc..
The broken eye bone and clavicle weren't sports injuries.
Just had the right knee replaced in December so it's gonna be good. But I'm still carrying a rod in my left leg all these years later, the broken femur was the worst.
As a child, I got hit in the brow with bat and fractured my elbow catching myself getting tackled. Those hurt, but time conceals the extent of pain I felt.
i can more easily recall the pain of my adult injuries.
-A pulled hamstring probably gave me the most acute pain.
-I suspect I herniated a disk while deadlifting. It was little acute pain, but the chronic sciatic for about 2 months sucked.
-The first honorable mention is a head to my brow in a coed soccer game. I had to get 5 stitches. The second was a grade 2 MCL sprain suffered while trying to be cheeky playing goalkeeper in a coed match.
i can more easily recall the pain of my adult injuries.
-A pulled hamstring probably gave me the most acute pain.
-I suspect I herniated a disk while deadlifting. It was little acute pain, but the chronic sciatic for about 2 months sucked.
-The first honorable mention is a head to my brow in a coed soccer game. I had to get 5 stitches. The second was a grade 2 MCL sprain suffered while trying to be cheeky playing goalkeeper in a coed match.
Tore ACL, MCL and Meniscus...that hurt but not immediately. More like a WTF feeling.
Snapped left wrist in football, planted dude jumped on my back and tips of fingers touched my forearm. Wrist has never been the same. Broken growth plate.
Dislocated shoulder in swimming pool which tore labrum. Another one where pain was a few days later.
Most painful...honest to God, must have been nerve endings... my canine tooth literally went all the way into my lip taking an elbow in bball. That hurt immediately and I bled like a shark attack.
Grossest injury I ever saw, teeth into forehead in backyard football...
Most horrific, dude going up for layup, bumped came down and ankle turned 90° and wasn't moving...stuck like that.
Snapped left wrist in football, planted dude jumped on my back and tips of fingers touched my forearm. Wrist has never been the same. Broken growth plate.
Dislocated shoulder in swimming pool which tore labrum. Another one where pain was a few days later.
Most painful...honest to God, must have been nerve endings... my canine tooth literally went all the way into my lip taking an elbow in bball. That hurt immediately and I bled like a shark attack.
Grossest injury I ever saw, teeth into forehead in backyard football...
Most horrific, dude going up for layup, bumped came down and ankle turned 90° and wasn't moving...stuck like that.
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Had a full Achilles rupture but went into surgery a few hours later so don’t remember much pain.
THE most painful was after surgery for a torn rotator cuff. Had two. The pain the first couple days even with narcotics was excruciating.
THE most painful was after surgery for a torn rotator cuff. Had two. The pain the first couple days even with narcotics was excruciating.
I booted a ground ball at second base and I wasn't wearing a cup.
Swelled to twice their size and turned purple for weeks.
Also dislocated my left shoulder twice. That HURT.
Swelled to twice their size and turned purple for weeks.
Also dislocated my left shoulder twice. That HURT.
Non sports...
Brown recluse spider bite. UK Dr. cut my thigh open with no numbing agent to drain infection...he had his reasons.
It hurt as much as it sounds like it would.
Brown recluse spider bite. UK Dr. cut my thigh open with no numbing agent to drain infection...he had his reasons.
It hurt as much as it sounds like it would.
I have had multiple injuries in sports that have hurt, but agree...more nonsense crazy injuries that hurt more.
Example, in HS was with my dad on vacation playing golf. Hit a shot a little off target. It went into rough and there was a palm bush where the ball nestled up against. I reached to grab ball and the palm leaf proceeded to insert itself into my skin about 4 inches deep. Puncture wound...hurt like hell.
Jumped up on an elevated desk at work to access some shelves in college like an idiot...drilled my shin on front of desk. Scar still here...when I hit it, just hurt like hell...10 mins later blood pouring out of leg...just chunked my shin wide open.
Agree, the non sports injuries are worse. I broke my foot because my friends and I decided to be idiots. We tried to fit 15 people on a golf cart and flipped it and I was in the middle in the seat up front, so I was stuck either way. My foot got stuck in the steering wheel when we flipped it and I broke my foot bad.
Broke the bottom of my femur, they had to end up cutting more of it off and putting a cadaver bone in, also tore my ACL and my meniscus at the same time. Was awful, and still to this day gives me tons of problems and has resulted in 11 surgeries on that knee over the years. Medial femoral condyle allograft ... I'll never forget those words lol. Absolutely BRUTAL recovery.
Tore my labrum in my shoulder along with an ac joint sprain, that damn ac joint sprain honestly was worse to me than the torn labrum, it hurt for a long time and still doesn't feel right to this day.
Tore my labrum in my shoulder along with an ac joint sprain, that damn ac joint sprain honestly was worse to me than the torn labrum, it hurt for a long time and still doesn't feel right to this day.
Back injury - baseball
Pulled hamstring - baseball
Dislocated shoulder - football
Broken ankle - basketball
Pulled hamstring - baseball
Dislocated shoulder - football
Broken ankle - basketball
That name rings a bell but I can't place it. I had to tackle Michael Bush from Male multiple times, two years in a row at UKs indoor practice field which was AstroTurf. For anyone whose never played on it just imagine playing on carpet on top of concrete. Bush was a load to tackle. For those that don't remember he played Running Back at Louisville and I'm pretty sure he had a horrific broken leg playing against UK. But could you tell me who George Addams was?
The hardest hitting game I ever played was by far the Kentucky vs Tennessee All Star Game. I don't know how many people remember but that was the best of the best from each state. They stopped playing it a few years after I played in it. Just the speed, size and intensity was WAY more than a typical high school game. Most of the players were signed D1 players. I had an offer to Appalachian State but went to the Army instead.
Hit by a pitch in the head in high school baseball. Headaches and dizziness, lingered on for a while after it.
Broken pinky. Stubbed it playing ball on a steal. It still aims nearly perpendicular to my hand. But it works.
George Adams (American football) - Wikipedia
Multiple sprained ankles from basketball that has given me arthritis in both feet. It sucks getting older as all your past injuries come back to haunt you.
Broken jaw from a baseball thrown from deep left field all the way to the plate where I was taking BP. They were hitting fungos off to the side and that one came in way off line without being cut off. Thank goodness for helmets as that may have hit my temple.
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I broke my 4th metacarpal bone playing basketball at the YMCA.
I was probably 28. I had been there getting a lift in. I decided to shoot some baskets for a few minutes. I had a date in like an hour, so I didn't have a lot of time. These two younger kids--probably like 12-13 came and asked if I wanted to play 21.
Little dude starts to drive in. I think I'm gonna be slick and reach out at the last second and poke it away. As I do, he grabs the ball and brings it very aggressively over his head. It caught my ring finger and bent it up to a 90 degree angle. EXTREME pain right away. I was in so much pain I was dizzy.
I went home and showered. Went to the date. Got an x-ray the next day, and there was a displaced fracture. Wore this funky hand cast for weeks.
I was probably 28. I had been there getting a lift in. I decided to shoot some baskets for a few minutes. I had a date in like an hour, so I didn't have a lot of time. These two younger kids--probably like 12-13 came and asked if I wanted to play 21.
Little dude starts to drive in. I think I'm gonna be slick and reach out at the last second and poke it away. As I do, he grabs the ball and brings it very aggressively over his head. It caught my ring finger and bent it up to a 90 degree angle. EXTREME pain right away. I was in so much pain I was dizzy.
I went home and showered. Went to the date. Got an x-ray the next day, and there was a displaced fracture. Wore this funky hand cast for weeks.
Too bad Cal wasn’t your coach, he wouldn’t have broken your heart
Me, not too bad:
- some rolled ankles (although 1 was really bad) playing softball, baseball & basketball
- a pulled lower back muscle playing racquetball, it was tiny but kept me from doing anything for 4-5 months
- a broken (bone chip) finger playing softball
- dislocated finger (pinky) playing basketball
I've inflicted worse on others (in non-contact sports):
- broken jaw (softball, other team)
- broken collar bone (softball, teammate)
- broken collar bone (baseball, other team)
- some rolled ankles (although 1 was really bad) playing softball, baseball & basketball
- a pulled lower back muscle playing racquetball, it was tiny but kept me from doing anything for 4-5 months
- a broken (bone chip) finger playing softball
- dislocated finger (pinky) playing basketball
I've inflicted worse on others (in non-contact sports):
- broken jaw (softball, other team)
- broken collar bone (softball, teammate)
- broken collar bone (baseball, other team)
George Addams played for Lafayette in the late 70s early 80s. He played at UK. He was an aggressive runner. He hit you like a freight train.
Never played Soccer but was told by our Trainer that Soccer has far more concussions then Football due to the "headers" and collisions the players have going for balls on corner kicks.
Worst injury for me was broken fibula--got bent back "matrix" style and broke fibula in 2 spots above/near ankle and up high closer to knee.
Most horrific injury I witnessed took place watching a young man from Minneapolis South break his leg (think Kevin Ware/Paul George) and they just cancelled the game after. The kids from both teams were a mess. Was scouting an opponent and was sickened for him/family. Hearing him roar in pain was helpless feeling. Just a terrible thing to see in person.
Most horrific injury I witnessed took place watching a young man from Minneapolis South break his leg (think Kevin Ware/Paul George) and they just cancelled the game after. The kids from both teams were a mess. Was scouting an opponent and was sickened for him/family. Hearing him roar in pain was helpless feeling. Just a terrible thing to see in person.
Yeah especially when you play in the cold, the ball is like a brick hitting your head
Thank you for that answer, that was before my time. I knew I'd heard the name before.
Ran into a blind screen while moving pretty fast and my neck popped like an accordion and I was briefly knocked out - first time my neck ever popped
Tore ankle ligaments playing pick up in college . That was bad , couldn’t run for 4 months .
But I’ve had way many painful injuries than my sports ones , car wrecks , a zip line disaster , little chain saw mishap . That’s the ones that come to mind
Tore ankle ligaments playing pick up in college . That was bad , couldn’t run for 4 months .
But I’ve had way many painful injuries than my sports ones , car wrecks , a zip line disaster , little chain saw mishap . That’s the ones that come to mind
