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What injuries have you had snowboarding?

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#1 · (Edited)
I have only had a couple that relate to snowboarding. I broke 3 ribs 2 years ago, I could still ride through that pain. Last week broke right leg and tore 3 ligaments in my ankle requiring surgery, obviously I'm stuck on the couch not riding....
Guess I should add a couple of hairline fractured wrists, one for each side....

I've had many other injuries through life but that's it snowboarding......
 
#6 ·
From current injuries to the oldest.

Right posterior elbow dislocation, severe bone/ligament/tendon/muscle bruising of the right hand, broken right hand, countless right shoulder dislocations, numerous left shoulder dislocations, tore something in my left knee most likely mcl, chipped the top of my hip bone and had a floating bone chip, partial dislocation of the right ankle, bruised heels, broken fingers, broken toes, broke right leg, ruptured spleen, dislocated right wrist, whiplash, 7 or 8 concussions, broken nose, chipped teeth, dislocated jaw, numerous bruised, smashed, slammed body parts, tailbone something or other, I think that's everything that I can remember. Spleen was by far the worst.
 
#10 ·
Cracked a rib attempting a rail, pulled my groin landing on my back/ass(not exactly sure how that one happened...) a few sprained wrists, sprained-possibly fractured/cracked thumb-bent backwards over rail, full body weight, lost ~50% range of motion and pain for 'bout 2-3 months, didn't fully heal for 6. My right wrist and thumb(just the base knuckle) are easily injured now but that started when I was 17 playing soccer, otherwise I'm a fast healer and I don't bruise unless you hit me with a baseball bat.
 
#11 ·
I was coming a little fast and went to jump a cat track, did a little 180, lander in a very hard tail press type position that I wasn't ready for and penetrated down to the ground so it was a very hard catch, instant snaps were felt. I would have speed checked but the fresh snow kinda hid the cat track and I didn't see it soon enough to slow down enough. Just glad it wasn't more serious as I flew a long way but not in the direction of trees.
 
#12 ·
ive cracked my ribs a ton of times, bruised heels/strained tendons in my foot, did something to my knee a couple years ago where i couldnt walk on it for like a month but didnt have insurance at the time so never figured out exactly what happened there, that still bothers me from time to time. a bunch of other stuff but never anything really major, mainly bumps and bruises from rails and things of the sort.
 
#13 · (Edited)
Just curious, were the bulk of these injuries "Terrain Park" related, or were they sustained thru average everyday free riding type activity? (...you know, catch a little "wrong" air, little too fast thru the glades, too much speed & catchin' an edge, dipshit skier {...or boarder} not watchin' were they're going? Etc. etc.?)

Just wonderin' exactly what it is I have to look forward to as my skills progress! ;) (...don't really see myself ever doing any "Park" stuff. Maybe some pipe if my skills allow! but no rails or boxes I don't think)

...that immature deal only works for the "Mind"! The "Body" is still OLD!! ;) (I swear, Gravity sucks you into the earth a lot harder, and with a Lot less "bounce" after 40!!) :eek: ;)

One BAD hip pointer injury, end of 1st day, 1st lesson! Knew enough to rent a helmet for the lesson, but then fell back on my elbows & shoved my shoulder up under my ear below the helmet!!!! Grayed out a bit from that!

Re-Injured Hip pointer, 1 week later! (Thank god I was wearing some padding for that one!! Would have needed a stretcher otherwise!)

So far though, mostly just strains, sprains, bruises as well as some plain old run of the mill "Monkey Butt"!!! :D Of course this last weekend I was clocking a few runs at over 30 & 35 mph. All my runs for the day had top speeds over 20-25 mph! So NOW,.. things could start to get a little hairy in a crash or fall!


(...Just as a little side note!

I think It's REALLY Strange that I've repeatedly crashed my L hip, HARD! Twice on the board, once on my MTB as it caught a pedal doin' 20 mph and the bike stopped! I of course DIDN'T! Bruise showed up three days later as my toes turned dark purple! Got a really neat shark tooth scar on my L ankle from the chain ring also,.. I've landed on my wrists and arms and shoulders, back, hips, knee's, butt!! dozens of times since I started boarding last year, and my arthritis hasn't kicked up over ANY of it! But once again, last night I reach into the back seat to get something while driving home, and this morning, I can't raise my arm high enough to hold a cup of coffee!!! R arm is useless from the shoulder down) One of God's little practical Jokes, No doubt!!
 
#15 ·
Just curious, were the bulk of these injuries "Terrain Park" related, or were they sustained thru average everyday free riding type activity? (...you know, catch a little "wrong" air, little too fast thru the glades, too much speed & catchin' an edge, dipshit skier {...or boarder} not watchin' were they're going? Etc. etc.?)

Just wonderin' exactly what it is I have to look forward to as my skills progress! ;) (...don't really see myself ever doing any "Park" stuff. Maybe some pipe if my skills allow! but no rails or boxes I don't think)

...that immature deal only works for the "Mind"! The "Body" is still OLD!! ;) (I swear, Gravity sucks you into the earth a lot harder, and with a Lot less "bounce" after 40!!) :eek: ;)
My injuries have been everything and anything in between. Speared myself on a tree that's what chipped my hip, improperly cut half pipe took out my spleen, elbow was me just getting too gnarly for my own good in the terrain park on a jump, caught edges, rock slams in powder, etc. etc. etc. Risk vs Reward.
 
#16 ·
Besides the few sprains and tailbone bruises, a couple of concussions and a broken wrist. Went up to a hip stall feature, and slid out on my heel edge, land hit first and the board/bindings landed on top of it. Hurt a lot, drove home because I assumed it was just sprained and then went to the ER.
 
#17 ·
I'd rather have injuries doing something I love doing than getting in a car accident on the way to work in the city... My wife and I both feel the same way, if we are gonna have aches and pains when we are old we would rather it be from something fun....
 
#19 ·
Same injuries as I had when I played other sports: shoulder sprains, rotator cuff, pulled muscles, sprained knees and ankles, and a broken thumb. Very lucky to have no serious stuff. Seems like anytime you injure something, even with proper rehab, it becomes a weak link. And with age I'm accumulating a nice set of weak links. Still, I agree with the Argo "I'd rather go down doing something fun" theory.
 
#21 ·
Broken wrist requiring surgery, Bruised tailbone, couple sprained ankles (both from park falls and one time I had a really bad one where somebody cut into me from the side while I was just freeriding). One time I overshot a jump pretty badly(as in a missed the entire landing badly), my foot was bruised pretty bad for about a week and I had a sprained ankle but I was very lucky I didn't get a break.
 
#27 ·
JEEEEZ - UUS!!!! No Shit! WTF did I get myself into????? :eek: ;)

Oh well,.. couldn't be too much worse than having a drunk turn left in front of me on my motorcycle!! (...I got REAL lucky there,.. came off the bike & rolled thru 2 lanes of oncoming traffic to the opposite curb without getting tagged again after bouncing off that booger eatin' retard's fucking Mercedes!) Risk v Reward!!! Damn Skippy!!!!! :thumbsup:
 
#25 ·
Broke a few ribs.. a couple times.
-1 time was just a slam on a cat track when I was learning, caught a edge,
-other time was from overshooting a jump, I was lucky that's all that happened, the video was almost hard to watch.

Broke my nose (And googles) once
- landed on my face off a medium sized kicker.

Other than that just bumps and bruises and a few days of being sore, nothing serious

I feel like I get injured the most when I'm not confident approaching a feature or whatever. I always go slow when I'm not feeling it, and that gets me in trouble for sure.
 
#26 ·
A couple concussions, dislocated left shoulder a handful of times, hairline stress fracture in my shin bone (although snowboarding was probably just one of many causes of this one as I was also playing soccer and training for marathons which contributed to the stress fracture), sliced open my back when I fell on a tree run onto an exposed broken off branch that ripped a hole in my jacket and base layer cutting a deep gouge just below my right shoulder blade, countless bruises, tons of sprains.
 
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