I managed to take not one, but 2 nasty falls in my lesson today. The first, my coach was telling me I needed to get on a deeper inside edge. So I did. Only I went a little too far, and fell on my left side. The elbow, knee, and hip somehow.

Second fall, I was working on toe loops. I did a really good one and she told me so. Then she says do one more. That's when I fall on the right side. Hip, knee, and elbow. And I somehow got my back in there too. But at least I'm symmetrical. My coach said I was going to give her a heart attack because I leave for my Europe trip in a few days, and she said she could just see me walking around europe trying to pull my suitcase with a full body cast.

Maybe I should stop skating until I come back from my trip, at the rate these falls are coming.

the worst bruises I've had were 3 days before competition.

I had bruised my right knee, left hip and left elbow.... All were very pretty looking. And the thing I fell on was a bunny hop!!! I was so mad that it wasnt something harder at least!

Also I always have bruises on my knees. I hate it when its on the inside of the knee because I tend to bonk into things, like desks for some reason!

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btw does anyone know how much a good "spinner" costs??(and can I have the brand name too?) thanx!

Well I never fall on my knees...but....

I was at my old rink with a friend, where the ice is really bloody hard and skiddy. And my skates kind of need sharpened (but they weren't too bad). Well I do this waltz jump where I skate forward fast and then do a barrel roll into it which makes me land on a deeper edge than the normal entry, and when I tried that I lost the landing edge and somehow managed to come down on my left knee (and right hip a bit, but the knee hurt a lot worse. Took a break, kept skating.

Near the end of the session, I plugged my phone into the rink speaker system and started skating my "program" (yeah...so I don't have a program at all, but I know the tune of the song so I put it on and skate around like a loon). Anyways I go into another big waltz jump, and the SAME THING happens again!! Only that time, it was worse. But after a moment on the ice, I got back up and finished skating to the song, agony aside! When I got home yesterday, I could barely limp along on it, and for some mysterious reason, the outside of my calf hurt all the way down too (opposite of the side of the knee I landed on). Today was pretty okay though, and tomorrow, I suspect my limp will be gone. And on Wednesday, I skate again!!

Sure did hurt the first day though...

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I've had the hip soreness (I don't visably bruise) so many times I can't count...but I don't mind it at all. It's sure better than knee falls and I don't mind sleeping on the other side. One time I had both bruised though, and sleeping was simply not comfortable at all...I had to sleep on my stomach, and I hate doing that so would instinctively roll over in my sleep, which would wake me up!

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I've got both bruised right now. And I do visibly bruise. Right now, it looks like I'm the victim of some horrible accident. I just bruise very easily. And I don't like sleeping on my other side, it just doesnt feel right and it makes my shoulder hurt for some reason. Sleeping tonight is not going to be fun.

fell once on bum with skate blade wedged up 'there'...not fun freaky. trying triple salchow, failed miserably.

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are you ok! that is a very bad thing check that out with a doctor. it could be badly sprained. Don't feel so bad You know when you are skating with one leg and the other one is up in back of you, well I did that looked down (when my instructor told me to keep my chin up) and fell on me butt! ouch! right on my tail bone! OUCH! That bruise was as big as at least a........um.........grapefruit! OUCH!

For me I dread the knee falls the most, they simply love to swell up and just generally get in the way for the next couple weeks, even just leaning over something, if the recently banged up knee gets in contact with a hard surface, it hurts and just makes me feel like I am limited in my movement.

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From my experiences from falling on the ice, the worst bruise I've ever experienced without breaking anything was not on my knees, butt or hips. The worst was in my left rotator cuff. It was from a fall while doing a change edge spiral due to trying to avoid a huge condensation hill on the ice and choosing the wrong direction to avoid it which cause me to catch my toe pick and fall squarely forward on to the ice which was really chewed up and didn't allow me to slid on the impact. The pain was so back I thought that I may have broken something in my shoulder, so I had it x-rayed and found out from my chiroprator that it was just a very, very, very deep bruise. This happened May 29, 2006.

Good thing I get enough vatimines.

singerskates

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Tailbone falls are awful. I have a large bruise on my left buttock/top of my left thigh, and am just grateful not to have hurt my tailbone. But left buttock is the wrong one from my point of view - it hurts to get out of bed! And no, I'm not going to crawl all over the bed just to get out on Husband's side, it's not that bad! But all the same, I am going to remember that fall for several days, I think. And it hurts to stretch my leg forwards.

Oh well, that's what you get for being a skater, and it will heal.... lots of arnica, and maybe some topical ibuprofen.

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I'll agree with the tailbone being the most painful. I've broken mine twice now and the pain takes forever to go away. Last time it was almost six months before I could sit in the bucket seat of my car without wincing.

This last fall is still sore, three days later. I can skate, thankfully, but as well as getting out of bed being sore, I can't sit on the loo with any degree of comfort, and walking up the steps out of the rink was painful, too...

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everytime i fall, i seem to fall on my tail bone. it hurts REALLY BAD for days, it's hard not to, though. i CANNOT fall on either one of my wrists (mostly my left, i broke it about two months ago ice skating) because i've broken them three times (left twice, right once). i feel your pain.

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It's been two weeks and half later and I'm still sore and can't use it much and when I do use it it aches. Yet there's no ripped muscles or broken bones (x-rays and stuff). Been seeing a chiropractor for this and it's taking a long time to get over it.
I think I win so far.

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Tailbone. FTW!

You know I don't mean to be rude, but it's not about "winning" or who's suffered the most - it's just about laughing at ourselves and the misfortunes that come along with this happy sport we choose to obsess over. It would be nice if you posted more stuff that wasn't a personal pity party...

Good luck with your healing though, regardless.

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This morning--my left hip. Just doing circles with double 3's on my weak side. I must have been leaning too far into the circle--edge went out from under me and I went straight down. You know one of those really hard falls. Now I feel like I'm catching a cold from my waist down, and want to go to sleep. Know what I mean?

Totally! I wonder if you'll be able to get out of bed tomorrow - I couldn't, when I landed on my hip the other day. Fine after that, but completely collapsed that day... shock, I suppose. And I've had other falls I've had to go to sleep after. Very odd!

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A bang on the knee is definatley no joke, the last time I did that I ended up on crutches I was off ice for a month, and two months later I'm still having physio on it, and it still hurts!

Mrs. Redboots,

I thought it was just me, and that I was pecurliar, which, of course, I am, but I thought it was strange that I always felt like I had to go to sleep after a bad fall. I guess that makes perfect sense when you think about it...

Please where crash pads for banged up knees. They work really well...you can fall on your knees a millon times and not feel a thing while wearing the gels!

I certainly felt *something* the last few times I fell on my "gels." (But OTOH, it didn't take me out for more than a few minutes off-ice.)

*sigh* I still am NOT allowed to wear knee pads after that last knee injury I had, except on stuff where I have to drag my knee thru the ice!!! (C'mon coach!!! I'm damn well near 40 and I certainly would like to keep my knees well into my 40's... )

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I have some pretty heavy duty pads but they are quite bulky (Id rather look silly than do that again!!!!! ) but i'm interested in what you say about gel pads. whre do I get them and do they work as well as the thicker type? bearing in mind i'm not as light as i could be .......

Here's their website:

http://www.skatingsafe.com

Needless to say, I'm not allowed to even wear those now!!! And they're really not that thick! The only problem you might have is if you sweat a lot that the pad may "slip." Sometimes even wearing two pairs of tights wouldn't work well. But overall, I LOVE these gel pads!!!

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11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Jazzpants, you've posted about not being "allowed" to wear your kneepads before...and I have to say that your coach's attitude makes me see shades of red . If you need them, or they will help prevent an injury for you, why does your coach say you can't wear them? I mean to say, if you get injured, will your coach come look after your family, home, job etc, while you spend maybe up to a year recovering? No? I didn't think so.

I do understand that there are times when protection can become a crutch, while on the other hand, we adults (mostly) realise that we could be run over by a bus as we leave the rink, but surely adults should be able to decide for themselves within reasonable limits what level of risk they're willing to accept, and what protection they feel is necessary.

As an aside, the Skatingsafe ones are so thin and discreet that if you wear them under jazz pants - which I guess from your username you do wear! - your coach would never know!! If you tape them directly to your skin with paper tape by the bottom half edges only, leaving the top half untaped, they won't affect kneebend at all.

Just my 2c worth, and I apologise if I've trodden on anyone's toes. Maybe there is some good reasons why your coach is acting as s/he is?

My darling coach (all of 30 years old) made fun of me the other day when I said I wanted to wear my knee pads while trying a new pairs element on the ice. It was all in jest, and I told him to "piss off! I'm 49 years old for godsake, and would really like my knees for, at least, two more days!" It was all in fun, and I love this guy to death. However, I think the young coaches really don't understand this, because they haven't, yet, experienced their bodies falling apart and growing older, firsthand. Can't blame them...when my own body started to age, it came as a shock to me, too. Even if they understand it, theoretically, there's nothing like experiencing this up close and personal--don''t you agree?