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ThunderChick

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Posted on Jan 06, 2009

First off, hi! 
 
Second off, hope you don't mind me posting in here but there's not a lot going on in the 30+ bit.
 
I'm a sports and remedial massage therapist, currently working with an ice hockey team.  I have other clients too from various sporting disciplines, but having been practicing for a little while now, I've decided I want to specialise in winter sports injuries. 
 
I did a bit of snowboarding for a few years but haven't ridden since I did my knee playing ice hockey three or four years ago, but I'm confident on my skates again now (although not playing) and am looking to get back on my board soon too.
 
Anyway, the purpose of my post is to help me with my research.  I've read all the facts and figures about the injuries that skiiers and snowboarders get, but wants to do some research of my own.
 
So my question is simply this:
 
What injuries have you picked up over the years?

bernwern

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Posted on Jan 06, 2009

You might want qualifiers on age, years riding, how often riding, etc.....
 
I am 30 and in my 18th season snowboarding.  I would say I average 25 days per season over the past 18 years, but doing about 50+ the last few.  Here's a list of my injuries:
 
-chipped tooth
-chipped patella
-sprained knee
-multiple ankle sprains (lost count)
-sprained lower back across 5 vertabrae
-cracked hip
-two cracked and one broken rib
-3rd degree shoulder seperation
 
Besides those, I have had no other injuries besides typical bruises and bumps.  I have been fortunate to not injure my wrists or arms, but now i suppose I jinxed that ><
 
Good luck!
 
-B
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djstealth

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Posted on Jan 06, 2009

2 herniated discs, surprisingly not from snoboarding but from a work related injury, yeah I kicked my work elevator's ass but the bastard machine landed a rabbit punch on me.
 
That injury does affect my riding though.
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TumbleBoarder

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Posted on Jan 06, 2009

torn medial meniscus
torn MCL
Patellar tendonitis
ankle sprains
wrist sprain
whiplash
torn back muscles
constantly sore and stiff back

smokingmonkey

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Posted on Jan 06, 2009

broken rib (rail), shattered shoulder (kid standing on landing), broken teeth (three still stuck in tree or on ground near it), i also did something to my back somewhere along the way because i get alot of back spasms now and have back pain alot of the time and it happens each time i board.
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tooscoops
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Posted on Jan 06, 2009

generally, its knees and back for freeriders, and park junkies can bust anything from ribs, collarbones, wrists, noses etc.
 
i stick to natural terrain, so for me, its been just generic knee and back strain/bruise/shift stuff.  since i've spent a handfull of days in the park in my ten years riding, the injury list is not too long... basically just nerve damage in my leg... maybe a concussion.
 
overall, winter sports are a good variation of injuries for ya... good luck.  lots of lifelong rehab oportunities!
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shredtherad

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Posted on Jan 06, 2009

better question: what havent most of us hurt? If i go to massage, its for my back, shoulder, and hip injuries though...

elsnowboardo
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Posted on Jan 06, 2009

I'm 26 years old, average over 100 days a year, and have been riding for about half my life.

Here's the list of injuries
Broke two metatarsals in the hand (halfpipe)
Broken Tibia undiagnosed so incorrectly healed ( wall ride to rock disaster)
Ruptured Spleen (halfpipe)
Compressed vertebrate (many flat landings)
Bone contusion in the knee ( 25 foot bomb drop to flat)
Dislocated both shoulders numers times ( free riding, halfpipe, cliff drops, jumps, rails)
Chipped hip bone (speared myself on a broken tree in pow)
Broken Knuckles (you name it)
Dislocated Hip (halfpipe skateboarding)
Dislocated Jaw ( sucker punched by some Mammoth asshole, dislocated it again wrecking hard)
Broken Ribs (Jumps)
Hyper extended ankle (over rotated on a jump and kept going)
Concussions ( I dun landed on me head, varying degrees of impact)
Bruised Tail Bone ( took a c rail up my ass the hard way)
Dislocated collar bones from my sternum (evidently this is a rare dislocation)





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ThunderChick

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Posted on Jan 08, 2009

Thanks for that.  It's pretty much as I thought tbh, which is a good sign! 
 
elsnowboardo, the SC joint dislocation you had is pretty rare, it's usually the AC joint, at the other end of the collar bone, that tends to get dislocated.  Several of my players have suffered from it.  No SC joints yet though.

eat_my_pow

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Posted on Jan 09, 2009

-broken nose
-separated shoulder
-bruised tail bone
-sprained thumb
-bruised hips
-sprained back
-multiple concussions
-sprained ankles
-partially torn MCL
-partially torn ACL
-pulled groin


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v1ncan1ty

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Posted on Jan 09, 2009

Nerve damage to my left shoulder,
Dislocated my right shoulder and was blacked/concusioned out for 45 min. (was knock out cold) all in one
 
:)

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jaronimo

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Posted on Jan 10, 2009

i froze some nerves in my toes. frostbite.. hyper extended some joints, but i know how to fall. been snowboarding for 10 years i guess im lucky for a park rat
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kendrat
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Posted on Jan 12, 2009

i've um... sprained my wrist? twisted a knee or two... broke my helmet so i assume that means i had a nice bit of brain bruising going on, but i didn't notice much... had a couple so-called friends take me out getting off the lift and twisted my back pretty bad (which, come to think of it, should've resulted in my knee twisting itself off but my knee was fine).
 
and that's it. nothing broken, nothing dislocated, nothing torn, nothing exploded... geez. either i'm super lucky or super lame. in 10 years you'd think i could do better!
 
i'm also on ski patrol this year. and in my first three shifts i saw a grand total of: one 1mm big cut to a finger, required a bandaid and pointing and laughing, that's it. one twisted knee on a skier that she decided to ski off instead of let us look at it. and one bruised hip on a snowboarder who landed a trick wrong, who was able to walk but suffered through us prodding him and asking a million questions because we were so bored.
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razzi

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Posted on Jan 12, 2009

20 years old female, 7th year snowboarding now.  i do a lot of rails and jumps.

-hurt my tailbone a few years (maybe 4 yrs?) ago; fell pretty hard on ice on my ass, and to this day, my tailbone gets sore if i sit on it too long.  gets better when i readjust how i'm sitting or stand up
-lower back feels compressed, prolly from flat landings, usually feels better when i crack it

no broken bones!  yay!

Does anyone have any at home remedies for compressed backs?  I usually bend back over a chair and my back cracks, or if I have a friend with me, they give me a bear hug, pick me up, and crack it.

Out of money, out of hope, but who cares...
...I get to ride all the time!
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tooscoops
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Posted on Jan 12, 2009

what you need to do to help the tailbone is wear those booty pants you wore for halloween all of the time... not just riding.  all... of... the... time.
 
back... ummm... drink beer.  not sure if that really helps, but my back feels the same... i stopped cracking my back now... and i drink beer... and i feel fine.  so it must be the beer.
 
hi razzi!
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razzi

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Posted on Jan 13, 2009

bah beer doesn't help... hmmph.  hi tooscoops!
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tooscoops
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Posted on Jan 15, 2009

awe.. thats too bad.
 
just for old times sakes.....
 
 
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bustedrider

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Posted on Jan 23, 2009

28 yrs old, snowboarding for 18 yrs, have gotten 100+ days/season since I was 18, averaged about 20 days/season from age 10-17. Mostly freeride, fromer pro bx racer, current sb instructor
 
broken wrist
broken nose
broken orbital
torn acl.mcl in knee
broken femur
compound fracture of tibia
broken ankle( boa lace system gone horribly wrong back in the day)
broken tailbone
broken ribs
ruptured achilles(currently recovering)
numerous concussions and broken helmets
broken jaw
 
amazingly I've actually had time to injure myself doing other stuff too, but this is the list as far as snowboarding injuries are concerned.

razzi

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Posted on Feb 08, 2009

Posted by tooscoops
awe.. thats too bad.
 
just for old times sakes.....
 
 


HA!  YES!!!!!
Out of money, out of hope, but who cares...
...I get to ride all the time!
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tooscoops
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Posted on Feb 09, 2009

just for you babe!  heh...
 
i plan on hurting myself in the near future as i'm thinking i'm finally going to do rotations.  i've been riding for ten years but have always been too lame to bother trying.  expect to hear more injuries soon.
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Comma

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Posted on Feb 09, 2009

Wrist sprains. Bruises and Cuts. That's it.

JiveTalkinRobot

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Posted on Feb 09, 2009

From one bad spill:
Two torn labrums (both shoulders)
lower back
fractured wrist
neck
huge scar on back
concussion


typically:
shoulders
wrists (at least once a season)


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Steezydoesit

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Posted on Feb 10, 2009

Broken Radius
Lots of Bruises

I guess im pretty lucky
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SpecialKallt...
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Posted on Feb 10, 2009

Skiing for 25 years
Snowboarding for 14
 
-multiple wrist and ankle sprains
-multiple other leg and arm sprains, mostly hamstring though.
-herniated disc in my back(some from the mountain, some from hard living)
-6 inch hair line fracture in my left tibia
-bruised ribs
-broken ribs
-edema of the tibia, fibula, patella and femur(did that all at once, the doc thought I tore my meniscus, but nope)
-shattered a hole the size of a baseball in the top of my skull(sonny bono style)
-lost one tooth, with countless others loosened at times
-never got it checked out, but I am pretty sure I broke my coxis once.  That fucker hurt for months!
-dislocated shoulders
-bloody noses
-cuts, scrapes and bruises every where!
-broken fingers
-broken toes(in my toes defense they weren't quite healed from being broken before, so I think they would have been fine otherwise)
-Liver problems/hangovers (that might be from the apres ski actually)
-concussions (if I hadn't got so many of these I might actually be able to remember more injuries for this list)
 
 
the long the list got the more I started thinking "wow I'm really not good at this!"
 
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everything will be okay in the end.
if it is not okay, then it is not the end.


atomicsnowqueen
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Posted on Feb 23, 2009

Posted by bustedrider
28 yrs old, snowboarding for 18 yrs, have gotten 100+ days/season since I was 18, averaged about 20 days/season from age 10-17. Mostly freeride, fromer pro bx racer, current sb instructor
 
broken wrist
broken nose
broken orbital
torn acl.mcl in knee
broken femur
compound fracture of tibia
broken ankle( boa lace system gone horribly wrong back in the day)
broken tailbone
broken ribs
ruptured achilles(currently recovering)
numerous concussions and broken helmets
broken jaw
 
amazingly I've actually had time to injure myself doing other stuff too, but this is the list as far as snowboarding injuries are concerned.


Jesus, that's an extensive list of pretty rare injuries... broken femur? broken orbital? ruptured achilles? How do you even do that snowboarding?!

As for my injuries... nothing much except
a couple of cracked ribs, bruised tailbone, random bruises, and chronic plantar fasciitis.
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