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Mark McMorris broke his femur

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#1 · (Edited)
Snowboarder Mark McMorris breaks leg in Los Angeles - Saskatchewan - CBC News

Yikes. That's a brutal injury. Hope he can come back from it. Usually you're better off breaking a bone than you are shredding ligaments, but the femur is a different story.

This is also further proof that everyone catches an edge every now and then. I know we all consider it a beginner mistake, but it happens on occasion to everyone, even the best riders on the planet. He landed a little in the back seat and lost his edge and went down. No big deal. The injury happened when he tried to pop back up while sliding down the landing zone and caught his toe edge.
 
#10 ·
Ouch, takes a lot of force to break a femur, usually a car or motorcycle accident. Then the muscles like to contract and bones rip into muscles and blood vessels. The faster they got a traction splint on it the better for recovery after. Wish him luck, the way it was flopping around while he was flailing is cringeworthy.
 
#17 ·
Really just goes to show the types of forces these guys are dealing with. Looked like it snapped when he was regaining his footing and it was just too much force.

How do many fare after that? Used to work EMS so I have seen it and dealt with it but after I dropped them off at the hospital never heard much.
 
#12 ·
When I see riders doing this jump ramp twisting flipping stuff it seems like something that's not even really snowboarding anymore. I mean why not just do these tricks on a trampoline? The snow and the mountain seem like they barely play a role. I'm all for cranking a flip or a spin here and there as you make your way down. But this fake mountain, fake snow, aerial gymnastics stuff is just weird. It's like somebody took the sport and bent the hell out of it to make it fit the x-games. With that said, I hope dude makes a good recovery. Looks like that would have hurt like a bitch.
 
#15 ·
It's scary to see a high level pro suffer a devastating injury doing something so mundane. I'm not talking about the crazy huge booter flippy spinny shit. That's not where he got hurt. He got hurt while trying to pop back up after going down while still sliding. Everyone who has spent considerable time on a board has done this dozens if not hundreds of times. Shitty, shitty luck on that one.
 
#16 ·
He got hurt while trying to pop back up after going down while still sliding. Everyone who has spent considerable time on a board has done this dozens if not hundreds of times.
Yeah, but not coming out of a spin. No matter how much practice you have it still affects equilibrium on landing. Even so he nearly made it. Bad luck, indeed.
 
#18 ·
They do just fine after. Surgery same day usually and we put a big rod in. They are usually walking with PT the next morning. 2 or 3 months to be heeled then solid 3 months of hard workouts. You would be Suprised at the pro's we would have come in and get stuff done that no one knew about. One had his femur done twice in a few months due to a bad surgery in NZ. We had to redo it. He was back winning golds in 8 months.
 
#38 ·
On our hill a broken femur gets a helicopter ride. Very serious.

Re: the repair....when my boy's broken femur was fixed the doc said it would not only be good as new...but would actually end up stronger than the one that had not been broken. It just took surgery and time. Mind you this was for a perfect, complete fracture. This guy's could be comminuted or some other form of shattering. Hope not.
 
#42 ·
I watched the Big Air SnapChat thing and there is a clip of him saying 'that's way too big' or something like that. It's not there anymore, but kind of crazy, if I'm remembering that correctly.
 
#44 ·
not gonna watch the vid, ever. for the same reasons i don't watch a doc on pig factories while i'm having my bacon

edge catches do happen to anyone, not as often as a beginner, but the farther along you are,the higher the consequences. higher speed,less forgiving terrain = greater damage. just part of the game