Standout injuries!

[AlladdinSane]

Nate's injury/hockey thread, SD's f-ed up situation, as well as my own issues have prompted this thread.

So what are your injuries?


EDIT: I really should have added that it'd be cool to hear how these injuries happened.

[natenator]

I think if you've trained hard and long enough we will all have some ****ed up injuries over time.

My joints are all fried, My rotators are beat up (partial tears x2 in same shoulder), patella tendon issues in right knee and torn my MCL last year (not training related).

Getting older sucks lol

[Shortdave]

Left supra spinatus and pec minor(non workout related), MCL (non workout related) Left Achilles tendon (workout related)

injury 1, I was pushing a load bar into a shop to get sand blasted, I got a good bit of speed going and one of the wheels caught on something causing the load bar to stop and me to keep going, tearing some muscle in the process. I am fully recovered from this.

injury 2, when I was 170lbs I used to breakdance. At 220 it was not a wise decision. I am now fully recovered from my dancing injury.

injury 3, I was pushing a truck uphill for max effort, the uphill part was a bad idea there was too much pressure on the tendon and POP, I am in the healing process now.

[C-money]

ive had a bum left shoulder for years, and i constantly get water on the knee on my left knee.. thats it for me

[waderow]

I need to be gentle with shoulders and warm up shoulders daily before any body part.
Otherwise, carpal tunnel type wrist injuries, elbows get sore from time to time, and of course back pain from time to time. I also have the weirdest thing in my left calf... some kind of injury that has affected the nerves and feels like burning from time to time.

Otherwise.... I am ****ing tip top

[AlladdinSane]

I really should have added that it'd be cool to hear how these injuries happened.

[Ritch]

I`ve got some nagging one`s as well. Sciatic pain in my right side that often makes me feel like I have some kind of groin pull. The inner part of my right leg especially the inner knee to the left bothers me most of the day. Some days the pain will go all the way down to the bottom of my foot. Gotta stretch every day to keep everything bearable. This is caused apparantly by one leg that is longer than the other.

Like most my shoulders are sensitve. Left one in particular. When training chest or shoulders I usually do 5 warm up sets before the work sets begin. It`s weird, if I try to do a front double biceps pose my left shoulder gets sore.

I have others but these are the main annoying ones.

[Ritch]

I really should have added that it'd be cool to hear how these injuries happened.

It`s hard to say, but I`d say lack of warming up and stretching. For years I`d squat and deadlift 405 and up and never warmed up much. Never even thought about stretching glutes, hams, quads, piriformis muslces... To me it looked gay to stretch.

[AlladdinSane]

Myself: Buggered up back/right hip @ 23years old...

... I was running a westside-style plan and it was ME Squat day. The exercise was Rack pulls from just below the knee cap. I worked up to 725 w/mixed grip and a belt. I got the lift and held it at the top... then let my air out! The weight ripped me back down to the rack, right side (supinated hand side) first. I felt it wasn't good so took off the rest of the day.

A week later was ME Squat day again, but with a new main move: Good Mornings. Now, while I could still feel this slight aggravation in my low back on the right side, I was 23 and stronger, bigger, and leaner (and as it turns out stupider) than I'd ever been. I worked up to 365 for what was going to be a single. I did it and it felt GOOD. So good, in fact, that I went for a second rep... Halfway up the bar stopped moving and my low back rounded... HARD. I still managed to complete the rep but my back felt like it was actually a little hurt this time. I called it a day (again) and went home.

I decided to take two weeks off of lifting and just relax. On my first day back, I decided to run a very light bodybuilding style chest routine. I started with Incline Flyes. I picked up the 70's (someone had left them on the ground) and on my way up I heard/felt tearing muscle and immediately went into a kind of shock... white as a ghost, immediate heavy sweating, and nausea. I couldn't move at all. Took me 15 mins to drop the weights and make my way to the front desk of the gym.

That was it. Torn QL and 3 weeks of not being able to sit, walk, or even shit. 300 bucks in Robaxacet Platinum in the first week alone. Since that acute injury, it had turned into a full blown constant pain involving psoas, quad, low back, glute, hamstring, calf and oblique and is now just a pretty constant nag reminding me that I used to awesome and stupid, to qualities that it turns out are not mutually exclusive...

[CanadianIron]

My left elbow hurts whenever I pull or press really heavy.. its basically hurt ever since I went heavy on my tri's and now its aggrevated whenever I work shoulders or chest... its annoying to say the least.

I also have never ending shin and forearm splits... its a bitch, but it could be worse.

[Redz]

I`m lucky I have only had a couple minor shoulder injuries that have healed 100%. I do worry about my wrists on high bench presses though now, I wrap them for extra support sometimes. As for hockey injuries I have never really had one through 18+ years of hockey knock on wood. My game is better than ever now but i dont play organized hockey anymore just pickup a few hours each week.

[turboturist]

I really should have added that it'd be cool to hear how these injuries happened.

Are we talking broken bones or just rips and tears for injury type?

Cause by the time I was 14 I had a collection of about 11-12 casts in the closet, had several more since then and a few surgeries as well..... And I am not counting the broken fingers or toes or shit like that. Stable fracture of the left femur, both collar bones a couple times, wrists, ankles, horse fell on me at 12 years old - slight crack in the pelvis from that, lower back has never been the same since.... etc etc.

Could be here for a while.

[AlladdinSane]

I was thinking "injuries from lifting", but hell, give us whatever you've got, how it happened, and how it affects your lifting now.

[BIGABOY]

Achilles tendontis(sp) and partial torn calf muscle, most likly a mixture from lifting and football, my shoulders hurt sometimes thats from benching 315 at 16 years old

BIGA

[tiramisu]

Rotators and elbow tendons. Years of bad technique and loose shoulders. I've really fussed over my technique in the last 2 years and I'm almost at the point of saying my shoulders aren't bad anymore.

[physique]

right knee tore mcl and broke it 8 years ago tubing behind a boat on the lake. never been the same since

left knee- off and on i will sprain the mcl. from doing leg workouts to walking. just gives out all the time. annoying as ****.

right wrist, not sure the issue, somedays i can hold shit in that hand let alone curl it. other days its fine.

left side of my chest. major tendon problem. can barely do chest anymore. went to doctor and he said stop lifting weights for chest and it will heal. of course that aint happening, so i train mostly light with it. it will give out though on a moments notice. even benching 95lbs i need a spot, cause if it gives out, its drops like a rock onto my chest. i cant control it.

[Memo]

Hip injury causing a rotation of my pelvis... so I am always bending toward my right side a little bit

[cog]

Had just finished power cleans and started working biceps.Get a warm feeling in the left one.Tried to train around it for a few weeks.Very bad move.Ended up destabilising the entire joint.Reinjured it ten years later arm wrestling a thick cement finisher.Reinjured again doing chest supported rows.Finally with a little help from peptides and my ego on the back burner have started to get somewhere with it again.

[Rhinobolt10]

I'll just go with the ones I've had recently.

#1 lower back
-I was deadlifting, and had been reworking my form so my back was nice and flat and things had been going well. I was warming up, and got to 455 where I was planning to be in the 8-12 range. Went to pull the first rep, and something in my lower back basically just went nuts.
It took me about a half hour to put my shoes on and get to the changeroom, had to take a break halfway to out of the gym, hobbled right by staff who didn't say a word. A couple hours later, I couldn't sit up out of a chair and needed a cane to be able to walk.
It took a bunch of adjustments, massages and IMS needle therapy before I could really do a whole lot. I was still comitted to 2 strongman comps that I managed to get to and in the first shit the bed where I was hoping to win, and in the 2nd did fairly well. I've got a rehband back brace right now that's helping a lot, I still have to be careful tho.

#2 left forearm
At the 2nd strongman comp there was a crucifix hold for time, where i let my arms hyperextend, and that put a lot of strain on my elbow/forearm. I tried to ignore it, but 2 weeks later I was picking a 350 atlas stone and heard something go, next day I had a bruise the size of my palm.
If it was a tear, it was minor so I just trained around it, and pulling movements and grip are no gos right now.

That's about it, I still have to do a lot of work to keep tendonitis kind of stuff out of my knees, hips and elbows, but that's all the stuff happening recently.

[drdnj]

I raced pro MX for years...so I have a plethora of broken bone and surgery stories.
My BB specific injuries are recent though (years of training catching up). Tore my left distal bicep tendon clean off in 2006 while curling and my right distal bicep tendon preparing for the Londons last year (6 weeks out). I had surgery for my right bicep Aug 2008, bounced back decent, but have no supination or pronation in it.