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Joined
8/8/2009
Location
Boulder, CO
US
Edited Date/Time
8/17/2014 11:48pm
Broke my vernacular into 3 pieces.
14 screws and a few plates later.
Its going to be a long road to recovery. Cant wait to get back on two wheels!
Dislocated wrist led to a torn ligament and 5 months off the bike. I'm just now seriously getting back on it.
Pins, screws, wires, oh my. 3-4 months off the bike, hardware still in there to this day, no problem!
Shattered my right calcaneus back in 2002. Just happy to be walking again...
Broke my wrist in 7 places at Nationals in Sol VIsta this year. Was off the bike for 4 weeks, then started riding the streets for some bike withdrawal fix. Here is the link to the vid of the wreck:http://www.pinkbike.com/video/172550/
Here's your video, embedded:
I had a laforte II break in 2008 at a skatepark. Nose cased off a 6' hip, landed to flat on my face. 6- Ti plates and jaw wired shut for 6 weeks. lost 30 pounds...
I also did a tib/fib break in 2009.
getting hurt sucks, especially when your insurance won't cover your physical therapy.
nice gash just below my left knee. went over the bars and my leg went straight to a sharp rock. 35 stitches to close it up...
it was a bruised taint. i bruised my taint.
Whenever you all head to the ER, follow up with a specialist immediately no matter what they tell you. They could easily miss things a specialist doc will catch. Can't wait to get back on the bike...
fixed gear, after this accident i put sigle speed in my citybike
Three years ago when I was 16 I began partially dislocating my right arm- first by crashing and successive dislocations by simply riding. The force of landing a 30 foot gap at the wrong angle would force the head of my right humerus out the front of my shoulder. This occasional anterior instability progressively got worse, to the point where anything- playing frisbee, swimming, or running could pop it out. Yes, I could even pull a Mel Gibson from Lethal Weapon!
It's been hard staying off the bike when you are a sociopathically addicted downhill racer. I spent the last 6 months of 2009 going to physical therapy with no improvement in stability- my shoulder had already been shreded. In February of '10 I had decided I'd spent enough time off the bike, and sure enough my first day on the bike I fully dislocated my shoulder. Enough was enough.
It took 9 months of preparation, but I finally got my shoulder surgery in early November. The diagnosis was a Glenoid Labrum Tear to be repaired by a Bankart procedure. Dr. Warme at the UW Bone and Joint Surgery Center reattached my shredded shoulder socket cartilage arthroscopically with 5 kevlar sutures anchored into the bone. The procedure went flawlessly and I can expect to be back on the bike in 6 months!
Also, if you have dislocated your shoulder, get it checked out early because injuries to cartilage take a lot longer to heal than broken bones. I would trade a broken collarbone over shoulder injury any day.
I took me 4 months to even get on a bike again and another 2 or 3 to ride XC/DH again. I lost all the metal in early 2009 and all that´s left now is a nice scar. I love the look on peoples faces when I´m at the public pool. And I even got the feeling in the skin on my shoulder back
Before:
After:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1155.snc4/149741_45203872…
My broken tibia. I was riding in a park and.....crack
before
http://www.gravitystigma.com/02092010200.jpg
after
http://www.gravitystigma.com/10742584.JPG
1 1/2 weeks before i started highschool
spent 3 days in the hospital, over night in ICU
broken nose, split upper lip, chipped tooth, split gums, and severe head truama.
woulda gone blind too if i werent wearing goggles...
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