In honor of the NFL, I though we could start our own injury report every monday. I'll kick 'er off. Nothing new to report this week, but I'm still nursing an injured left elbow, righ wrist, and left groin muscle and my ever present right shoulder. Gawd I love this sport! Despite all that I'm in pretty good shape going in to this week and should be good stay in the game

sciatic nerve problems. Started with some wonky camel spins weekend before this, but what finished me off was an off-ice fall from stepping on a pavement utilities plate in the rain. Agony!

Can't camel or sit, and jumps are limited, but should be good to go next weekend.

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Saved by Synchro!
I was over it, now I'm into it again !

I had a migraine (Thursday through Sunday) and severe tinnitus (ringing in the ear). The migraine cleared up mid-morning on Sunday but the ringing in the ear was horrible! I finally realized that I hadn't kept up with my iron supplements (I'm anemic) and that's one of the symptoms. Duh! That would also explain the HUGE bruises!

So, I was walking across my bedroom, and I wasn't looking where I was going and I tripped over my feet and crashed into the bed with my hip-now I have a beautiful HUGE bruise! I told hubby I got it falling on a toe-loop and he started freaking out (I felt bad so I told him the truth-LOL!). Funny thing-the lights were on and all that. I do better on ice.

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Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

Saturday...on a LFI Rocker (junior moves) I was focusing on keeping my feet close, and my right foot went up and my feet went out from under me and all of my weight fell on my left butt cheek...so I am now sporting a sore bottom and a friend has my designated ice pack, so I wasn't able to ice it!

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"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES." --Nike

On Friday I dropped a tin of beans on to the little toe of my left foot. It hurt! Took some arnica and next time I thought about it I realised it no longer hurt, so I forgot all about it until I was drying my feet after a shower yesterday and realised I had a Large and Impressively Dark bruise on that toe! Which doesn't hurt.

I also have a streaming cold and have been feverish the past couple of days, but feel better today.

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Just made an appointment to see the dr about my right ankle. Pain and popping is getting worse. I couldn't do anything bigger than a toe loop in my lesson last week without feeling as if my ankle would collapse.

Am also sporting a nice bruise/cut from where I bladed my left shin coming up out of a back sit spin.

Seeing the chiro today to have him do his usually back crackin' stuff for my sciatica!!! MUCH needed since my hip and legs "don't feel right..."

Am finally going shopping this week for some MUCH, MUCH needed athletic shoes for my off ice training too!!! VERY worn out!

Hubby is sick with the flu too! I'm trying to stay out of his hair today so I don't catch anything...

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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!!!

I worked out while the girls were at Synchro on Saturday. I am so sore, especially in the hips. Now my heel spurs hurt. Ice ice, baby, ice. (And Advil.)

We should really ask Advil to sponsor adult skating.

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I feel fine!

But I didn't get to skate this weekend either.

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Surprisingly, nothing hurts today! Not from figure skating, at least.

I did have an unfortunate run-in with a large binder clip that was on some legal documents at work this morning. It popped up, hit me in the mouth, and left a small cut under my lip and made my already chapped lips bleed. Ugh. It HURT!

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Not skating related for a change, but fell down the stairs carrying a tray of paint (was decorating) and badly sprained my ankle. After half an hour of trying not to throw up and pass out due to the pain a trip to A&E was called for, especially since this was the ankle I badly broke some years ago while skating which has a metal plate in it. Fortunately no broken bones but a bad sprain so sent home on crutches. Most interesting thing is that the x-ray showed up two old fractures that I never knew I had, plus of course the one I did know about!

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Hugs to all of you with injuries, skating related or otherwise!

My hips had finally cleared up, but are now starting to hurt again, of course, since I'm skating again .

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I'm sick - does that count?

Chronic tendonitis in left hamstring, tight ITB and piriformis in right leg, waiting for surgery to sort out torn labrums in both hips... oh, and my right foot has started making cracking noises when I step on it (well, not on it, but when I use it).

Needless to say, I'm not skating much at the moment - and I seem to be spending far too much time at the sport clinic!

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Pardon me for laughing. It IS sorta funny. Sounds like something that would happen to me. Just don't let it get infected...you don't want to be explaining THAT one on the worker's comp claim!

NO! I hope your ankle feels better, but I'm also in horror wondering: did the paint get everywhere???


I'm fine this week. I'm a klutz as usual, of course, but no major injuries. Unfortunately I tend to not watch where I'm going--yesterday I was coming out of the file room at work and didn't line myself up with the door well and slammed my shoulder into the doorjamb. I'm one of those people who can be walking down the sidewalk and get hit in the face with a low-hanging branch. I do not know how I manage to run into things that should be easily seen...I must get tunnel vision looking at something else. I really gotta work on my powers of observation. Last night I bashed my pinky toe on my old desktop computer (I'm really good and mashing my pinky toe on stuff. However, a couple days ago someone on another community was saying how once she tripped on her brother's wheelchair and--OMG this is gross so if you're squeamish stop reading--one of the spokes *cut off* her pinky toe. OMGOMG. So now I must try to be more careful!)

Thanks! Yes there was a fair bit of paint to clear up off the carpet. Just my luck eh? Anyway hope you're not in too much pain with all your injuries!

Nicki

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Yeah that's the type of thing that is hilarious when it happens to other people. Especially people in the office who annoy me. Oh well!

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Oh no, Nicki. I forget, are you supposed to be doing Dumfries next week - in one way, I hope not, as nothing worse than having to withdraw because of illness or injury?

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No, thankfully I'm not in for Dumfries, and luckily we decided against Oxford too last week because my Rhumba was so dire! (What do you expect in one lesson eh?).

Nicki

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Currently nursing a very bruised ego from competition on Saturday...I'll post the painful details in the practice thread.

My left hip has flared up very badly. My last MRI of that hip showed a partially detached labral tear, and I'm afraid that it's somehow become fully detached, as my hip is kind of locked and won't "pop" like it usually does when it locks up like this.

The stitches in my right ankle from my ligament repair are also really bothering me for some strange reason. The doctor warned me when I first had the surgery that this might happen because I have such skinny ankles, but it seems weird for it to be flaring up 2.5 years later.

I'm also just generally sore. I've been having a mild form of chemo that past 3 weeks for a bleeding disorder, but haven't taken any time off of training. In fact, I've been skating more, preparing for the disaster of a competition that was Saturday and for regionals. But that's most aches and pains that I've learned to live with. Nothing like figure skating to make you feel ancient at 19!

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^Oh, wow! You sound downright beat up! I hope you feel better soon.

Hi guys

Well, not really an injury this week, but a healing one, from about 12 days ago.

I fell and landed on my right elbow when I was standing still, practising my ISI freestyle 2 dance step sequence on ice 2 Fridays ago. Immediately I developed a small cut, and graze.

Now that it has finally healed, and is growing baby soft skin.

Wishing that during my skating lesson and practice tomorrow, I do not land on that bad elbow again.

londonicechamp

Hope everyone's injuries/illnesses improve sooner rather than later!

Doctor did x-rays and didn't see a stress fracture, but she wants me to follow up with the orthopedic surgeon to be sure. She thinks I've got tendonitis. That makes sense, since it comes and goes, and gets worse when I push it with skating.

I know I need to go to the ortho, but I feel like putting it off...at least until after the competition I signed up for in early November. I know he'll tell me to lay off skating, and I don't really want to do that right now.

Maybe everyone will think this is a totally stupid idea, but what about this? Go to the ortho now to find out if it's "just" tendinitis or something more serious like ligament issues. If he tells you it's tendinitis or something else that is painful and needs to be rested for it to go away, but not harmful in the long term, just keep skating! I'm sure you wouldn't want to find out months from now that you had done actual damage to your ankle by continuing to skate.

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It didn't happen on the ice, but I had a tooth pulled last week. Skating was quite an adventure while being buzzed from all the medications. Turns out you can still skate with a sore mouth. As long as I don't land on my face it should be OK