I’ll start: I tried to move a bookshelf while drunk about 6 years ago and tore a tendon in my shoulder pretty damn good. It still bothers me sometimes if I move it wrong or sleep on it wrong.
Got WAY TOO drunk at a club, kicked out (which I genuinely accepted with good grace). Walking home, realised I’d forgotten my jacket. Figured I’d just nip in past the bouncer, grab the jacket and leave without bothering anyone. I didn’t nip past. I got bounced. Rebuffed from the club, and pushed backwards I fell over and broke my foot (a Jones fracture). Was in a moon boot for 3 months or so, but now it hurts whenever I walk wrong.
It seems like you weren’t drunk enough, drunk people are indestructible.
Woke up realizing I must’ve slept wrong, had a crick in my neck.
About an hour of messing with it and tried to crack the crick,
Life’s been different since then. Can’t move my head a certain way, if so my arm will go numb in seconds.
I had this too, but mine went further. Eventually became burning, terrible pain down my arm – worst pain I’ve ever experienced. I spent six weeks on steroids, oxycodone, and gabapentin until I could finally get steroid injections directly into my spine.
Be careful, and get checked out for cervical spinal stenosis. You might be able to do some proactive stuff at this point.
Now my neck always hurts, I can’t feel my fingertips (especially on the right hand), and my right forearm sometimes feels like it’s on fire.
Future me! Yayyyyyyyyyy
I’ll look into the stenosis for sure! Thanks!
Skydiving, once, in my 20s. Not sure if the chute was on wrong, being slightly over the weight limit was a factor, or if it was just genetics, but when the chute opened, the jerk caused a loud enough pop that my instructor asked if I was okay.
I lied of course, the adrenaline kept me from knowing the deal, anyway.
The first time I threw my back out, after, it was from picking up a piece of paper. These days, when I have the least pain I can still tell my back muscles are as tight as a garage spring.
I had never known a moment of back pain before that day, and I don’t know what it’s like to walk a mile without back pain now.
You should try physical therapy. Essentially you have to decide if your back will dominate you or vice versa. I’m in a lesser similar situation. Good luck.
Several back injuries led up to the one to rule them all, from skiing accidents to picking up a ping pong ball. One day a few years back mid-deadlift (right as I was getting in decent shape from a life long affliction of being a fatty) something in my back popped loudly and I passed out.
Hasn’t been a normal day since. Lots of physio and some rehab, just weren’t doing the trick. Now got some futuristic prosthetic discs and we’ll see how it goes. Hopeful again, finally.
I blame the utterly nonsensical popularaization of deadlifts. Whatever you get outta that, is minimal compared to the risk of potential injury. Also, 90% of the time, people AREN’T using the proper form, so it makes it even worse! add in trying to squeeze out extra reps, or going for a new PR, it’s just an injury waiting to happen. Been liftin my whole life, fuck deadlifts.
I think deadlifts done correctly are almost unanimously considered a good lift, but I was ahead of my skis that day on weight and already had a bad back. I’d been form checked by two trainers so I think I was okay there too, but I can’t be sure because the smallest, imperceptible change, especially if you already have a bad back can ruin things quickly. I live with a ton of regret about it. Hindsight blah blah.
yeah, right? like, you can work forever on getting good form for a lift, but as soon as you start straining, bit tired, maybe 3rd or 4th set, things start to get lax, and BAM. herniated disk. sucks.
What do you do instead?
Since dead lifts are primarily glutes and traps, just break it up into two different exercises. Squats (or leg press) and row. Also, the biggest secret to not getting injured in the weight room that most weightlifters ignore (to their detriment) is yoga. Yoga isn’t for bulking, it’s exclusively for all of the little accessory musculature groups that aren’t typically utilized in standard kinetic motion strength training. These are the muscles that help you keep your good form while you’re doing strength training, and preemptively primes your body to not injure yourself.
Threw my back out pulling a shoe on like 6 years ago. After it finally un-fucked itself like 3 weeks later I started weight training. Haven’t had many issues with it or other random injuries since. Other than a couple resulting from me being an idiot.
I’ll second physical therapy. Problem is finding a good one. Red light therapy (the pain treatment ones, not skin care) can also help, especially with inflammation. PEMF is another possible option.
My back pain actually originated in my hip.
Slipped down my stairs and broke my finger. It now sits at an angle
Accidentally kicked something while running out of a room. Busted my big toe pretty good and the toenail eventually fell off. Two years on and the toenail still hasn’t grown back right. Doctor gave a medication for a fungal infection that sort of has helped, but I’m not so sure it’s ever gonna go back to normal, it just looks like the toenail keeps regrowing over itself but never grows out fully. So it grows 90% of the way, then stops, and it keeps growing over or under it. Gross to look at.
I pulled my bed out to grab something that fell behind, forgot to push it back, turned off my light and went to lay down. Stubbed my pinky toe into the leg of the bed frame so hard that I broke two metatarsal. I already had arthritis and tendonitis along with an as of yet diagnosed neurological condition. It ended my welding career and made most general labor positions impossible, and with no office or administrative experience, I’m at a tremendous loss and now navigating the nightmare that is qualifying for disability assistance in the US with no insurance and no money for a doctor to get the proper medical records.
Bent down to pick up a kitten in my garage when I was 8. It was under a car engine suspended on a lift, and I brained myself badly while standing up. Lots of blood, seizures due to three TBI and resultant swelling. Thankfully my mother bravely stood up to the mean old doctor insisting I needed surgery to relieve the swelling and instead treated me with psychic healing and veggie smoothies. It only hurts sometimes 45 years later.
Bent down to pick up a box while cleaning an extra bedroom that had become infested with bees (they had started a hive in the wall due to an unseen opening happened around a hot water pipe after an earthquake). Frustrated due to both the intense heat and the bees that had only left their hive due to said heat, tried lifting said box, not realizing it was full of books and simultaneously ignoring a lifetime of working around my chronic back issues. I stopped trying to stand once I resembled a fleshy right angle and had to crawl out of the room on my hands and knees. A lovely 40 mph fender bender later that year (I was at a complete stop as were the cars in front of me) made that a delightful addition to my back problems.
Same year, I was making Hasselback potatoes for the first time. I have a seldom used but quite nice food processor, but decided ‘hell, why not use the mandolin?’ About an 1/8" of my right ring fingertip, that’s why not, dumbass! Thankfully it grew back, but the very tip looks like a light burn scar and it’s still somewhat numb and tingly when touched 9 years later.
Damn, that mean old doctor, trying to heal you and all that.
That’s how they getcha!
When I was a teenager we had a giant trampoline. One time I was jumping on it and I landed wrong and tweaked something in my back. From then on, If I twisted just right, I would have some sort of spasm in my lower back that would immediately put me on my knees. It used to happen fairly frequently but it’s very rare anymore. I probably should have had it looked at but I didn’t. I haven’t been on a trampoline since. No need to aggravate that injury.
I was playing soccer on a roof when I was around 5 years old. Backed into the then-knee-high wall and fell, head first, 4 meters onto a cement floor. I miraculously broke my fall by hitting something midway, and managed to survive it with just a cracked shoulder, sprained ankle and a couple of stitches on my forehead.
However, I realized years later that my left collarbone now pops out every time I lift my arm over my head.
I was really into skiing when I was younger, and would go every weekend with my buddy and his dad. I tried to outrun them, fell, and tumbled. My shoulder was very badly sprained, and I couldn’t use it for like a month. Now from time to time it flares up again, and the pain comes back for a few hours. The shoulder is also much easier to sprain now, every time I fall it’s out of commission for weeks. I went to my doctor, who told me that nothing is broken and there’s nothing he can do about it.
I broke my wrist rollerblading when I was 14. I didn’t even fall super crazy or anything; I just got tripped up on a rock getting stuck in my wheel and fell forward while not moving very fast. Even after it healed, I didn’t really skate anymore and every now and then to this day, I feel it hurting like it was freshly broken for a moment or two on random occasions.
I had also taken a few tumbles directly onto my knees without sustaining lasting injuries, but I do recall a doctor telling me if I took a fall or two like I had for one time when I thought I broke something that I may need surgery because there was an issue with the cartilage in both my knees.
It wasn’t until a few years later while playing racket ball that I pivoted to hit the ball and just felt something pop and hurt like hell in my knee that another doctor said I had, if I am remembering the name correctly, Ozgood Slater’s and a deficiency of cartilage in my knees so things that normally aren’t supposed to rub together were rubbing together, causing inflammation and pain in the area. I still struggle with this and some days my knees just hurt like fucking hell.
I was rear ended in my 20’s while at stop light and got whiplash. Neck is constantly sore from that. Doctor told me it never really heals and just to do stretches. And I have carpal tunnel from shitty posture and playing games.
“Answers to the name of Lucky.”
I started reading it back to check for errors and even I was like “damn. I am fucked up.”
I was about a story and a half high in a magnolia tree when I was about 10, and I had walked out on one branch, holding a smaller branch for balance.
I didn’t realize the one I was standing on was dead, and it snapped at the trunk… The small branch I was holding wasn’t enough to hold my weight, and it snapped too.
The branch I was standing on bounced off the springy ground that was many years worth of shedded leaves, and it hit me in the lower back just before I was about to land on the ground.
It caused a minor fracture in a vertebrate, and caused me a lot of pain at the time, but I didn’t complain because I didn’t want to be “a little girl” (I had two unforgiving older brothers). When I was in 8th grade, I had my first back ache and had x-rays which found the childhood fracture which mishealed due to not being treated.
It still causes me a lot of trouble whenever I’m bent over for long or if I have a back ache.
Both of my hands have some scar tissue which gives me some trouble about 1/11 of the times I do a pinching/clamp kind of grip. Those injuries were from sticking my hands in a dog’s mouth to pry his mouth off of my dog’s throat last year. At first, all my might wasn’t enough, and he chomped the fuck out of my hands.
Then my adrenaline kicked in and I pried his mouth open like it was nothing. I then kind of suplexed and wrestled the dog so mine could be taken to safety. I don’t regret it one bit, but it was definitely a stupid thing to do… but I can still play the piano just fine!
I also came dangerously close to losing an eye from a tooth or nail. It happened so fast I’m not sure what did it. Here are some pictures.
Wow that sucks.
I wonder what the correct procedure would be to pry open a dog’s mouth.
With a croc you can pry it open and hold with less effort than your account. I would hope since a dog is less armored one can strike at the head/throat to knock it out or cause it to go slack…
Edit: that rabbit hole got dark
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/1/31/1060335/-
If that happened with me and a pet/child think wrestle the dog down and elbow the throat is best course of action.
Well this dog’s head was bigger than mine, and I remember from Mythbusters that a medium-sized trained attack dog they used as an analog had around a 500-600 pound bite-force. So this German Shepherd/Great Pyrenees mix definitely had a greater bite-force than 600 pounds.
I later learned the ‘proper’ way to separate fighting dogs is to pull them apart by their hind legs. You’re less likely to be bit that way.
I love my dogs as much as my human family members, and I just went caveman and charged in like an idiot…
100% I’d have gone for the jaws myself. Hands be damned. I’m just wondering what’s the best way to deal with it.
Looking into it all articles are about preventing conflict or what you should do if YOU get bit.
Not how to get a dog off a child/pet…
Walking my dog one day and met a random stranger also walking his dog, he bent down to pat my dog and his dog attacked mine, the stranger used his hands to pry open his dogs mouth and got bit. I took my dog to the vet to get stitches, and explained what happened. The vet informed me the best way to stop a dog biting down on something is to insert your finger in its arse, I have never had reason to use this knowledge so far.
I sneezed about 5 years ago and I haven’t been able to look up and to the right without pain since then. It’s a minor pain, but definitely still there in my neck.
Have you had a doctor look at it? This worries me.
I unfortunately can’t afford that. It’s not bad enough and hasn’t changed at all over 5 years, so frankly the doctors here would likely just say “yes, just don’t look that direction anymore”
That sucks. I’d expect a doctor to at least try to find out what’s causing it and if it’s serious or not. I wouldn’t expect them to tell you to “just don’t look in that direction anymore”. But then I don’t know your doctors ofcourse.
Wishing you all the best and I hope your issue still gets resolved one way or another. And I hope it’s nothing serious.
That’s the worst direction anyway, not much going on there.
Does being indoctrinated by society counts as a long lasting Injury?
I slipped going down a slope on a hiking trail, but didn’t let go of the tree I was using for balance. This caused my chest and shoulder muscles to hyper extend.
Now I have slap tears in both shoulders and arthritis in my sternum.
