Share Your Sports Injury Story

Beth's ORIF post surgery one week 
Hi all, have been freaking out wondering how I should be going...I am 35 years old never been sick or been in hospital for anything my whole life and suddenly ...

Meniscus repair & bone marrow used for healing? 
My daughter is scheduled for surgery on March 01. She has a partial tear to her ACL. Also, she has damaged her meniscus. The surgeon stated that they ...

Shattered tibia plateau 
The summer of 2008 I fell down only 5 steps going to work and shattered my tibia plateau.
I ended up having an external fixator due to the amount of swelling,...

M.'s acl/meniscus rehab and shoes 
My 15 year old daughter tore her acl and meniscus 7 months ago, she underwent surgery to repair them with them putting in the cadavar tendon. We did everything ...

Broken Talus 
My husband was pressure washing our house. I was on a ladder, waist high at the roof line. I had just handed him some pressure-washing solution when he ...

KT's Long ACL Surgery and Frustrating Rehab 
I blew out my left knee for the first time when I was 15. The surgery went very smooth and re-hab was tough, but it went pretty fast. I was full weight ...

Ralph's ankle injury. 
While playing golf , my back foot was caught up in the rough and did not release after my swing. The outside tendon along side my ankle gave a sharp pain ...

Question about ACL repair hospital stay and first week 
I am going for an ACL repair on February 12th. I have been told I will probably spend 3 days in the hospital. What should I take with me?
Will I be able ...

39 year old ready for ACL surgery 
ACL surgery scheduled for Feb. 16th.
Long story short, while playing football on Nov. 1st. 2009 with 28 seconds remaining before the half, I was running ...

Another ice pack burn 
G'day from Australia:-) Its another ice pack burn story. I'm so glad I found this website as now I dont feel like such a complete durr brain. I should ...

Ryan's ACL Tear 
I'm 24 and also fairly active. I play on a flag football team (for fun) at the university I go to. Well, as we were warming up before the game, I had a ...

Richard's upcoming surgery....or not? 
I am a 44 yr old male, who has played both outdoor and indoor soccer for most of my life. More recently, I had surgery to repair/reconstruct a ruptured ...

Karan Grover, New Delhi, India 
Hello, I was surfing on the net when I came across a post by "Shaun, From St. Petersburg, FL".

Shaun's original post

Actually on Sept 13 2009 in ...

2nd surgery  
On 3/2 I tore my ACL and Lat Meniscus. On 4/14 I had the surgery to repair the damage. In June during pool therapy I felt the infamous "POP". I brought ...

Gimpy 
Hi! My very uneventful story is that I stepped out my back door onto my deck (maybe 4") down and broke the Distal Fibula, that and numerous dark bruises ...

Broken Fibula @ roller derby practice 
Hi on Sep13th I broke my Fibula, left leg just above the ankle joint. After being in plaster for a week it became very painfull and was swelling, I could ...

THE NUMBER 3: ONE 16 YEAR OLD GIRLS 3rd ACL TEAR & MENISCUS 
My name is Mika I am 16 years old and I LOVE to play soccer. We all have that one thing that makes us happiest in life and mine is soccer. When I'm ...

Allison's ACL Update (20 weeks later)... Please help! 
I'll try to keep it short. I injured my right knee on March 28th, 2009. I had surgery on April 14th to reconstruct my ACL (with my pateller tendon) and ...

i got hurt at the hotel california escazu costa rica 50 years old/some extra lbs 
I was checking out a lot to buy ,and I went down this path it had a incline,
as i stared to fall I let go(went with the fall) so hopfully I would not ...

Shaun's Fractured Fibula/ Compound Ankle dislocation playing Baseball (WARNING- Graphic Fracture Image) 
Hello, my name is Shaun, I am 27 years old and I was just reading a few stories on here and I decided that I would share mine...

On May 31, 2009, I ...

injured meniscus how long before i can play soccer 
I'm 21 years old i've played football but mainly soccer. A few months ago i started having pain in my knee, then a week after pain started i played another ...

Dominique's ACL Surgery 
Hello. I am 40 years young :>) and recently May 23rd) tore my ACL in a martial arts kicking excercise. During the middle of it, I felt something against ...

Scott's Knee injury 
how it happened....

I was playing for my local football team, the ball was kicked over to our goal, I had to run over the and intercept the ball or ...

David's fractured ankle 
I am 54 years old. I broke my distal fibula and tibia while cleaning my pool May 24th.

What makes this difficult to accept is that I have been so active ...

Kristyn's ACL Story 
I remember the night clearly. It must have been the worst night of my life. It was 5 days before my 15th birthday in January and I was playing in a basketball ...

Scott - Quad Strain Playing Soccer 
I'm a 40 year old male and in what I consider to be in excellent physical shape. I have been playing ice hockey consistently for nearly 7 years now without ...

Question on swelling & pain 9 weeks post op from ACL & Lat Meniscus 
I was wondering if anyone could help me with this - I had the ACL reconstruction using the Allograft & also lateral meniscus repair (with stitches). The ...

Lisa's TIB/FIB fracture with ankle dislocation 
5 weeks ago I fell over a child's gate and have a vertical fracture of the Fibula, the end of my tibia was broken off and I dislocated my ankle. They ...

shawns 2nd acl 
well here i go on june 19th 2009 for my 2nd acl...back in nov of 2008 i had my 1st. ive been in soo much pain that has never went away since the 1st op....

Claudia's Bilaterally Fractured L5 Vertabrae 
I'm a fifteen year old soccer & track girl & I've been experiencing and dealing with back pain for over half my life.
I made my first complaint at ...

Running pain free again 
I had to stop running because of severe pain in my right knee due to patellofemoral syndrome (runner's knee) and because of a chance meeting at a business ...

Jim's hip/pelvis pain 
Been suffering now for about 6 months with extreme discomfort in my left hip area, to the point where I couldn't get comfortable sleeping, and it hurt ...

flight attendant 
I am not an athlete but I do spend long hours on my feet. I broke my fibula and cracked the inner ankle on my left leg on Apr 4 2009. My doctor wanted ...

My acl and miniscus tear and rehab story  
hello my name is Curtis Mackall and i go to eastpalenstine high school in ohio and i play for our high schools basketball team, so one day at practice ...

kayla's knee 
i dislocated my knee 6 years ago (in 7th grade) playing basketball went to the ER that night and all they did was put me in a immobilzer and sent the xray ...

Question - What About The Knee? 
About a year ago I was jogging went off a 6 inch curb like any other time. When I hit the ground a sharp pain went up from about my right mid shin all ...

knee pops ot of place when putting pressure slanted  
im 16 years old, about 4 years ago i was playing soccer and the ball was coming from the air i raised my right foot to the air and planted my left on ...

open reduction internal fixation right ankle 
I work for parks and recreation / we offer tours IE: kayaking, canoeing, biking, backpacking, camping, ect. so needless to say I am into a lot of outdoor ...

Dallas's knee injury. 
In November 2008, I injured my knee playing basketball. I planted my foot to change directions while running up the court and as i did the opposing player ...

Rowers ACL rehab 
I'm a 16 year old competitive rowing athlete. in September of 2008 when I was playing rugby I ended up "tearing" my ACL and my meniscus. After three ...

Jim's terrible shoulder pain 
I'm writing about my 24 year old son, Jim. He has had 2 SLAP repairs and is in severe pain 24/7! No one wants to touch him now since the first two surgeries ...

4 Surgeries, 3 ACL Reconstructions Later 
I was 17, my Junior year in high school playing soccer when I was hit from the side and my knee buckled and popped. I went to the doctor and was told I ...

ACL Rehabilitation 
It's been almost 4 wks and i still am not able to tighten up my quads or straighten out my leg completely. This is making it difficult for me to walk without ...

Simone's ACL story 
I am 18 years old and a senior in high school. I have been on the varsity basketball team since I was a sophomore. All summer I had been working to be ...

Jennys jammed finger 
I'm sixteen, love to play sports such as, Basketball, Soccer, and Cheer leading. One day o went to Basketball practice and i jammed my finger, it was very ...

Gaurav's ACL and medial meniscus injury 
Some 8 years back there as an motorcycle fall injury on left knee with doctor's prescription of rest only.

There after in two or three occasions (during ...

Snowbird ski resort, Utah 
Last week, my friends and i went out west for a skiing trip. We arrive to Salt Lake City around 11 at night. The next morning we make our journey to ...

Question - Football PCL Injury 
ok, well it was only flag football, but i did injure my pcl none the less. while running i hit a bump in the field which caused me to fall to the ground ...

Months of wondering....what's wrong? 
In August, I got my right foot caught in a tow rope on a boat. Unfortunately, the rope yanked my leg and left me in quite some pain. My right knee and ...

Damaged my Right ACL, MCL, and Meniscus...with a bent lock knee 
In May 08' I blew out my right ACL, MCL, Meniscus, and locked it (bent). Dec 1st I finally had an Arthroscopic Debridgement and a Medial Meniscotomy (nothing ...

Doug Smith Shattered Neck  
Hockey The Most Dangerous Game in the World.
From 2nd in the world at 18 to paralysis and back again.

The awesome crack of a lightning bolt directly ...

Weird ankle sprain 
I have sprained my ankle seriously three times and have had many minor sprains to the same foot in the past. Once my foot was broken and I never knew and ...

ACL 3 times please help! 
I believe I just tore my ACL for the third time in the same knee (my left). Simply I want some opinions on what I should do. I don't care about playing ...

Sharon's hip flexor pain 
I am not an athlete and trying to get into shape at age 58 when you are overweight is a lot of work! I had used the elliptical, treadmill, and rower at ...

Zack's Patella Femoral Problem 
A few years back I had a slight tear in my hamstring. After the recovery I have had frequent pain ever since. I was told I have pf syndrome. I have ...

what's next? 
I took a fall last Oct. 2007.
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Here is Sharon's original post and comments *Bart @ SII*
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Severe compound fracture of the ankle 
Feb 2008 - fell off whilst bouldering (rock climbing ropeless), fibula was protruding out of my skin, complete dislocation of the ankle joint, fragment ...

David's right knee adventure 
All my life I have been a very athletic person. I played basketball and golf all throughout high school and wanted to play a little in college as well....

Lee's always out of breath when running 
My name is Lee I am 39 and a mum of 2 from Melbourne Australia. I am currently training to get back into the Army. I was a smoker for 24 yrs and I quit ...

paul's hip flexor injury 
well i got a hip flexor injury trying to do one of C.Ronaldo's tricks on a defender. The one where he cross over his foot ti cross the ball with one foot ...

Senior in highschool out for the season (FOOTBALL) 
I am a Senior in high school. I am one of the best linemen my school. I played football freshmen and sophomore year. Unfortunately i didn't get to play ...

Marilyn's Patella Femoral Syndrome Rehabilitiation 
I have played tennis for almost 50 years...both tennis and golf for the last 10...I also walk 6 miles/day 4-6 days a week. A couple of years ago, I started ...

TANIA'S PFS 
DEAR BART:
I AM ANXIOUSLY AWAITING FOR THE NEW ARRIVAL OF YOUR BOOK ON P.F.S.
HOW WILL I BE ABLE TO RECEIVE IT?

THANK YOU!!!
TANIA ...

Ash's ACL injury 
Hello guys, I tore my ACL playing b'ball in July. I went up for a layup and my buddy tried to block me. His entire weight was on me which got me off ...

ACL pull, is that real?  
August 2007, i was playing in a soccer game, top of my game, in the zone, almost a few goals, are team was doing fabulous, i was running down the field ...

13 year old Knee Reconstruction 
I was 13 when i hurt my knee in a practice match.
i didn't think it would be very serious i thought i must have just badly sprained my knee..
i went ...

Mountain Biking (activity after a clavicle fracture) 
Broke my clavicle mountain biking. I am a tri-athlete and a rock climber, so staying inactive was impossible for me. Hopefully I heal properly. I feel ...

I had pain for years!!! 
I had pain for years and my mother wouldn't do anything about it until I kept bugging her this past year. I had therapy, I tried medications, I tried ...

Ashley's broken arm 
When I was two I fell off a tree house and my baby sitter saw it happening and ran over to me but she did not get there in time.

I landed on my left ...

Ashley's Neck Injury 
I was playing soccer against a certain team a couple of years ago, when I was in the 7th grade, and I was the only one on my team that scored so far in ...

Soccer (Amy's Wrist Injury) 
I play soccer with my bff. We were practicing and I suddenly tripped and fell on my wrist. It hurt so bad . I went to the doctor and he told me that I ...

EJ about to give up soccer for life 
I'm 35. In 2006 something popped up in my right hip when I kicked a soccer ball with all my might. Unbearable pain and no insurance led me to use rest ...

Hilary's Knee Pain 
I started to get knee pain while at a soccer camp. The night before I had fallen and landed on my knee so I didn't say anything for a while to my parents ...

Christians Hip Problem 
I was playing a game on a Thanksgiving tournament and some kid crashed me from my side. I barely get injured but this one got me when i was in the floor ...

Sara's Story  
I completely tore my ACL. I tore my LCL and biceps tendon. I also have damage to my peroneal nerve; all in one injury.

I was playing soccer. I don'...

Karen's Rotator Cuff Rehabilitation 
Well, first of all, I'm not an athlete. Yep, even non-athletes can and do get rotator cuff tears. Mine was a partial, near-full thickness tear of the ...

Nicole's Patella Femoral Syndrome 
I'm 35 I have an 8 year old and a 3 year old.
I've always loved running as a form of regular exercise. I have never been good at making sure I stretch ...

Morgan's Patella Femoral Syndrome 
I'm 14 and have been playing soccer almost all my life. At an indoor game one day we were warming up and all a sudden my knee snapped out of place then ...

Randi's Meniscus Tear 
I guess this starts with small ACL injury almost 12 years ago.

Fast forward to about a month ago. I was dancing and snap. I felt the injury, thinking ...

Torn Meniscus or Just A Sprain? 
I started having knee pain about 3 months ago, during summer football camp. My knee swelled up really big, and it hurt to put weight on it. Initially, they ...

Even Athletic Trainers Get Sports Injuries! 
I should have known better. I tell my patients all the time how important their athletic shoes are. But, I happened to give in to those flashy Nikes in ...

Broken clavicle needing a plate with screws 
I am an avid bike rider, ever since I was 2, now 57. I never had a serious accident ever, rode very long distances, up and down mountains, mostly road ...

ACL Surgery  
I am a 17 year old and I am a running back on my high school football team. During my August camp I got hit and I fell funny. I felt my knee pop. I went ...

Erica's tib fib fracture recovery  Not rated yet
Nov. 22, 2009 I fell and broke tib and fib and dislocated ankle joint. Surgery next day & now have metal plate and 7 screws in the tib. Wore boot-cast ...

Can't Believe I did this playing Flag Football!!  Not rated yet
About 4 weeks ago I was playing flag football which I have been doing for 7 years. I either took a step into a hole or stepped on an opposing players ...

Mark's ACL Story  Not rated yet
On January 16th 2010 I tore my ACL playing a pick up game of basketball. I went for a layup, my knee gave out on me (I didn't feel the signature "pop"...

dislocated and orif  Not rated yet
Thanks for the encouragement re back to work in wheelchair. I have been back for 5 week post op and the news is good fractured fibula healing well - saw ...

sprianed finger and the disppointed coach  Not rated yet
ok, i sprained my middle finger last wendsday, and now its monday, and i type like ok.
anyways, we had this basketball practice and there was this machine ...

Marcus Phelps  Not rated yet
Hey guys,i tore my ACL when i was 13 (still am until April). It was the first day of hitting in football and we were doing a catch and tackle drill. When ...

Mona's Mensicus Repair  Not rated yet
I started therapy 4 after meniscus repair surgery. Started on the stationary bike and some motion exercises. They were quite painful but I made it thourgh....

javier albor's acl tear  Not rated yet
hey people..my name is javier albor and i go to escalon high school in california.im 15 yrs old and iin my first preseason varsity soccer game for the ...

Rachel's ACL Rehab  Not rated yet
My name is Rachel and i tore my Acl when i was fourteen. I was playing in a syrimmage for my high school soccer team i am a stricker and i went to make ...

Andrew's ACL Rehabilitation  Not rated yet
i tore my acl on september 17th 2009 in a football game i had my surgery on november 3rd 2009 and it has now been about two months. the other day i was ...

Bicycle rider hit by bus then fell down the stairs  Not rated yet
HI Everyone, I am an avid bicycle rider - everyday and every where.

I was hit by a Greyhound bus (I was going through the cross walk and the sign did ...

ACL Rehabilitation (3 weeks)  Not rated yet
Hi. My name is Ruben,I am 43 and I live in Miami Beach. I had my ACL surgery 20 days ago. I did not the necesity of taking any pain killer pills.????? I ...

7 months of hard core many year trained sport  Not rated yet
when this happened i was 14 years old, in febuary of 2009 during the L.O.S.S.A. wrestling final match my shoulder popped out. 2-3 months later i thought ...

Dislocated left ankle, fractured fibula and tibia, ORIF surgery  Not rated yet
On 18th August 2009 I dislocated my left ankle playing soccer and also fractured the tibia and fibula (Weber C fractute). I had the ankle repositioned ...

pcl replaced 3 yrs ago  Not rated yet
I had my PLC replaced 3 years ago, my post rehab went well and I couldnt wait to play sports again. I took my time the first 5-6 months of training, but ...

Bone spur on top of foot  Not rated yet
I had ankle arthroscopic surgery and a Brostrum repair on April 8, 2008. For the past few months, I have been experiencing pain in my ankle well over ...

Gillian's ACL dilemma  Not rated yet
Hi!
I had a knee arthroscopy 13 years ago (when I was 15) to trim a torn cartilage. During this procedure it was noticed that I had also torn my ACL. A ...

Throbbing pain 2 years after acl surgery   Not rated yet
Hi, I was curious if anyone has experienced the same problem as mine.
I had a ACL reconstructive surgery on my left knee 2 years ago. I am
experiencing ...

christian ny  Not rated yet
Hey guys
I broke my right ankle on the 16th,the timing could not have been worse i was meant to be starting a new job in sept but now im facing ...

Jim's timber tibia  Not rated yet
This isn't exactly sports related, it happened at work, but this site has some excellent information and stories, so I thought I'd share.
I am a logger,...

Week 2 Rehabilitation  Not rated yet
I am in week 2 of my rehabilitation. I am grateful to hear the testamonies of everyones story, they are encouraging and ones I can truly relate to. I ...

David's Hip Flexor Inflammation - Thankfully Not a Degenerating Hip Joint  Not rated yet
I had some mild hip range of motion limitation for a few months, then suddenly once, upon standing from a table I had acute hip pain and couldn't stride,...

9 Screws and 1 plate in my left ankle and my ankle pops and hurts still??  Not rated yet
HI I had my ankle worked on in Oct 08-that was the most painful and horrible thing I have gone threw ain my adult life..Iam 32 an I stayed pretty active,...

Steve Madden RN  Not rated yet
I had a total detached supraspinatus and labrum lifting heavy weights. They were both repaired and then detached again a week later. A second surgery was ...

BIRTH DEFECT patella-femoral syndrome SURGERY?? OTHER OPTION??  Not rated yet
I was born with out a big toe on my right foot due to birth defect. That has caused a lot of ballance issues for me. When I was 13 I really started to ...

Chris's Patella Dislocation  Not rated yet
I am a 24yr old female about 5'6 and a little over a week ago as I was getting out of bed my left knee popped out. This has happened to me once befroe ...

chrash  Not rated yet
when i was 13, i was on a hiking trip with my school, we were hiking up whistler mountain, well during the hike i kept falling, here it was raining and ...

Fatal bone injury  Not rated yet
hi.. my name in Naminder.
On 30th january 2009 at around 10:30 pm i was riding on my motorcycle back to my place when a speeding car from front came,as ...

Need More Therapy??  Not rated yet
I have a Radial Head Fracture. I broke my arm at work on march 31st I went to the follow up appointment on the 7Th of April and the Doctor gave me a script ...

Broken 5th Metatarsal  Not rated yet
I'm trying to figure out how long it will be before I can get back to living "normal" again. Here's what happened. I had been working out and running for ...

Kathy's kitty face ice pack burn  Not rated yet
The small ice pack was tucked under my knee brace for 15 mins.
Timer rang-ice pack removed-red Batmanesque burn appeared.
I increased my water intake ...

Persa's predicament   Not rated yet
Hi! I am a female 65y and suffered a RHF (radial head fracture) left arm after tripping over my foot(!) while playing tennis. Carried on playing but ...

Broken Fibula during Roller Derby Practice  Not rated yet
7 weeks ago I broke my fibula just above the ankle. Didn't need surgery. Wore cast for 6 1/2 weeks then the doctor said to only wear it outside and off ...

swim mom  Not rated yet
My son sprained his wrist when he fell at a skating party. He also broke his left index finger while swimming, okay while goofing off at he beach, the ...

Partial tear on my PCL  Not rated yet
During a softball game I tripped over the catcher foot and feel on my right knee. I went to an ortophidic and after my MRI results they told me I had ...

Torn Rotator Cuff Surgery  Not rated yet
I play a lot of baseball and love to pitch, and that's where the torn Rotator Cuff injury comes in. After a couple of years of constant pitching I began ...

Injured in Ireland, fixed in France  Not rated yet
I injured my left knee in a totally boring fall over a kerb in Ireland, the consultant fixed up the torn meniscus but took the view that it wasn't worth ...

Dom's Waiting For Knee Reconstruction  Not rated yet
hi im mika, im 18 and i love playing sport epecially basketball. Just a few days ago i got results back from my MRI scan, and it fair to say ive done my ...

Emma's ACL Reconstruction.  Not rated yet
Well im 16, and in the summer i attended a basketball camp for 3days. I injured my knee the first day at the camp and of course it was a camp where you ...

Flight Attendant's Trimalleolar Fx  Not rated yet
I hope you can answer a question for me. I am a Flight Attendant and I was leaving for a trip on January 13, 2009 and fell down my stairs at home (4 stairs)...

lsb  Not rated yet
I had a fall where I slipped with my right foot when walking from the tube platform on some ice. My right foot went over to outer side and I landed full ...

Josh (Knee Dislocation- Patella)  Not rated yet
Well i've been wrestling for 8 years now and on December 13,2008. I was at a tournament in the semi-finale winning 6-0 in the third period with a minute ...

2 Later Releases  Not rated yet
I always had pains in both knees but never really thought much of it until I got older. At 30 I was having alot of trouble, alot of pain inside both knee ...

Same side ACL graft vs Other side graft  Not rated yet
(Medical Background---I am a 30 yr old active and healthy male. I do have Von willebrand blood disease. Which just means that my blood doesn't clot as ...

Angel's first ever fracture  Not rated yet
I was never one for getting things broke as a kid, too careful for stuff like that even though I could trip over nothing on a pavement, paying for it now ...

unhappy triad experience :(  Not rated yet
I play dek hockey (like street hockey, it involves running)And a player from the team that my team was playing against in the championships tripped me....

My son's hip flexor pain  Not rated yet
I'll tell my son's story and maybe someone can offer some guidance or encouragement. he is 16 and a serious swimmer. In September, just before the swim ...

No improvement on sprained wrist, 2 weeks later  Not rated yet
I fell badly on my wrist about 2 weeks ago, and woke up the next day to a lot of swelling and pain. I had and x-ray and MRI, but no report of a break....

Daniels near total knee replacement  Not rated yet
It was my sophmore year in High school. I go to central East in Fresno, California. I was practicing for my fourth j.v. game of the season( not counting ...

question about coming back from a jones fracture  Not rated yet
I'm in highschool, I broke my foot this summer playing soccer in some pickup games before the season started. I had surgery right away, They called the ...