Sporting beatings

[Infidel Castro]

I took a bit of a beating last night playing football. I got a howitzer of a shot in the thigh from close range, a ball in the back of the head, a bruised chest from blocking a shot as goalie and another bruise on the arm where I saved another piledriver flush on my forearm without cover. I then finished off two hours of football with a clash of knees.

Despite all that, I enjoyed it. It\'s a part of sport.

Funniest of all though, a friend of mine was in goal for a stint. The same feller who inflicted the majority of pain on me lined up a corker from just outside the semi-circle and managed to plant it straight on my mate\'s face. He was crouching down at the time, and the sheer force bowled him off his feet into the back of the net lol. It was Pythonesque!

No pain, no gain I suppose...

Anyway, I thought I\'d share with you one of the reasons I enjoy sport

 

[Logan]

Spooky!

I\'m currently sat at home after having spent the morning at the Doc\'s then A&E.
Was playing five-a-side footy with the lads from work and got in an absolute nothing challenge where two of us booted the ball at the same time, the ball acted as some sort of pivot and turned my knee right round.
Long and short is it\'s bruised internally, torn and has \'locked\'.

You\'re right, I still love it but I\'ve lost count of the number of people now telling me to pack it in. Meh, they\'ll never understand.

Worst was my son who walked past me on his way out whilst I was coming in, (ironically on his way out to a table tennis match) and he uttered the consoling words \"You\'re getting old, old man!\" lol

 

[Onis Lair]

Ah Logan, getting smack talked from the kid. lol

 

[Logan]

Originally posted by Onis Lair
Ah Logan, getting smack talked from the kid. lol

Yep, and he\'s bloody bigger than me now as well lol

 

[alextheartist]

Too many sporting injuries...

Football:
Broken the end of my big toe inside my foot. Broken ankle, lots of bruises and small grazes..

Skateboarding:
Broken wrist, LOTS of scars and scabs.

Snowboarding:
Scraped all of the skin off my knee on an artifical slope, lots of bruises and a few head injuries..

Surfing and bodyboarding:
\"ran\" over by other people (hurts lots when its a longboard...), half drowend a few timeslol

Boxing:
Lots of split lips, bruises and headaches..

Alex

And as soon as my toe is fixed i am going for a week at lympstone royal marine base for a body bashing.. lol

 

[wiccanpony]

In honor of Liz, we need a “post a pic” of your latest bruise thread

 

[alextheartist]

In the past three weeks,

Bike injury:

Football injury:

Enjoy..

 

[wiccanpony]

nasty road rash on your hand Alex and can you get a shoe over that toe?

 

[alextheartist]

No, the swelling has gone down but i snapped a bone so i have a splint cast on it now so i cant get one on (big woolly socks for me lol). Hopefully it will come off tomorrow, if not two weeks tomorrow.

Alex

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by Logan

Long and short is it\'s bruised internally, torn and has \'locked\'.

ouch, sounds like a torn meniscus. you having an mri scan?

Originally posted by alextheartist

Football:
Broken the end of my big toe inside my foot.

as opposed to the other toes?! (sorry!)

no major injuries here. although i did nearly loose an eye playing squash and a lung collapsed cycling once

been lucky really

saw rev bite the dirt cycling though, that was fun. took it like a man though (he was pissed!)

 

[alextheartist]

Its difficult to explain because the bone is part of the toe, but is inside the foot because the toe bones go really far inside the foot. I said big toe because its BIG which distinguishes it from your pinky and other miscalanious toes lol, also its hard to walk without putting weight on the toe, but easier if one of the others is missing.

Alex

lollollol

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Playing baseball, third base. Fast grounder, I go down, the ball takes a bad hop and I get SLAMMED in the Adams apple! Hard to describe the type of pain. That happened when I was 12. Still don\'t like grounders.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Originally posted by freakinacage

Originally posted by Logan

Long and short is it\'s bruised internally, torn and has \'locked\'.

ouch, sounds like a torn meniscus. you having an mri scan?

Originally posted by alextheartist

Football:
Broken the end of my big toe inside my foot.

as opposed to the other toes?! (sorry!)



saw rev bite the dirt cycling though, that was fun. took it like a man though (he was pissed!)

Oi, I\'d had 2 pints! I was merely relaxed. I still laugh when I think about that crash...

@Logan - that\'s what it\'s all about. Yesterday some woman in work asked me why I cycle to work a lot and why I don\'t drive. Truth is, I don\'t drive at all as I don\'t have a licence, but even if I did I would still cycle to work and back a couple of times on shift (that\'s a 17-18 mile round trip on a mountain bike using roads - should get myself a road bike). It\'s about putting yourself in a position where you have to push to carry on. I\'m not the sort who will cycle like a tourist or play team sport without commitment.

I wasn\'t posting necessarily about injuries, or else I would have listed other stuff - it\'s more about the ethos of putting your body on the line in every way to play sport.

 

[Logan]

Originally posted by freakinacage

ouch, sounds like a torn meniscus. you having an mri scan?

Would have loved an MRI scan as apparently that\'s the only way they can tell what\'s really the prob, but as they\'re so expensive it wasn\'t an option it seems.
Mate of mine\'s a GP and he\'s sure it\'s the anterior cruciate. Problem is he\'s recommending ice, rest and raising it whilst bloke at the hospital (admittedly a junior doc) said try to walk on it and use it. What do you do with such conflicting advice?

Originally posted by reverend

@Logan - that\'s what it\'s all about. Yesterday some woman in work asked me why I cycle to work a lot and why I don\'t drive. Truth is, I don\'t drive at all as I don\'t have a licence, but even if I did I would still cycle to work and back a couple of times on shift (that\'s a 17-18 mile round trip on a mountain bike using roads - should get myself a road bike). It\'s about putting yourself in a position where you have to push to carry on. I\'m not the sort who will cycle like a tourist or play team sport without commitment.

I wasn\'t posting necessarily about injuries, or else I would have listed other stuff - it\'s more about the ethos of putting your body on the line in every way to play sport.

Ah sir, now that\'s the indomitable fighter spirit.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Aye, that\'s the way it is!

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by Logan

Would have loved an MRI scan as apparently that\'s the only way they can tell what\'s really the prob, but as they\'re so expensive it wasn\'t an option it seems.
Mate of mine\'s a GP and he\'s sure it\'s the anterior cruciate. Problem is he\'s recommending ice, rest and raising it whilst bloke at the hospital (admittedly a junior doc) said try to walk on it and use it. What do you do with such conflicting advice?

so? are you having done privately? if it\'s on the nhs, they have to find out what\'s wrong before they treat you. feckless eejits, money doesn\'t come into, they piss a load of money away on useless stuff most of the time anyway

the therory with icing it, is only cool an injury for 72 hrs after (to stop swelling). after that, warm the area, this will encourage the blood supply and aid healing (and don\'t smoke)