A lot of ppl on this board have written about their injuries. I am wondering what ppl were doing on the ice when they were injured. I am referring to "serious injuries" such a break or other injury that takes you off the ice for a few weeks or more, not just a bruise or soreness. My theory is that most of these injuries do NOT happen during jumps and spins but tripping in footwork or basic skating. IOW, when falling is not even expected.

Kay

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The worst injury I've incurred on ice was when I was just standing there in front of my friend talking to her. All of a sudden my feet went out from under me and I was flat on my back in between her feet (her reaction was, "Where is she?") -- anyway, I got up and skated for about a half hour and then realized how bad my left hip hurt. I don't know how I made it home that night because by the next day I couldn't walk at all. The Dr. said that my femur had jammed up into the hip socket and had caused some major bruising. I walked with crutches for about 3 weeks and got back on the ice 6 weeks later.

Strangely, that hip has never once bothered me again. But the OTHER hip - yow!

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My worst injury involved breaking an ankle in learn to skate at age 23. I was off ice for the whole year after. I was horribly overweight at the time too. But it hasnt stopped me from figure skating since then nor has it stopped from landing axels or doubles- i have not had any major injury jumping into my thirties, and i am confident i am a better athlete and in much better shape now than i was ever before.

I have seen some adults injure themselves badly from spins or jumps but i think this is mostly caused by forcing the spin or muscling it instead of patiently trying to learn the right techique. The more experience I acquire in figure skating the more I've come to realize that success really comes from finesse, attention to detail, and the patience to consistently make changes in order to master an on-ice skill.

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My last bad injury happened while demonstrating a mohawk. Just a FI mohawk - stepped on my own blade (chipped the edges) and flew up into the air, landing on my back and slamming my head back onto the ice. I was stiff and sore for weeks. Fortunately, it wasn't a concussion, but I had to stay off for over a week.

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I didn't open my hips enough preparing for the mohawk (in hold with coach). Finished the turn-out onto the outside edge as I put my foot down.

Over and over and over.

The cartilage in my right knee was not very appreciative of this maneuver.

Then kept skating for 3 years until I couldn't hardly bend the knee without immense pain, and couldn't hardly walk up or down stairs normally.

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I sprained my ankle badly at a very, very, very cold rink when I was younger...I was doing a backspin and I got stuck in a hockey rut

Knock on wood...I have been injury free for a while...

Broke my wrist on the Pre-Pre BI edge pattern a few days before I was supposed to test . Just pulled the skating foot out and did not get the new foot down. Went straight down instead and stuck my R arm down, palm first. A witness later said he heard the bone break. It took me two years to be ready to test again, mostly because I freaked on FO three turns, which had just clicked for me the day before I broke my wrist.

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All my serious injuries, including fracture, occurred on spins. Probably one of the reasons I hate the spins so much.
Never anything really serious on footwork. Not even the bellyflops out of the forward biellmann spiral reminded of themselves for more than 2 weeks. Just the spins.

Eek that's how I hurt my ankle a few weeks ago just when it was looking like it was really on the way to recovery from the fracture and when I could do some jumps again already...
HOCKEYERS ARE EVIL!

Well, you missed the "stepping on the ice w/ guards on" category, which claimed me 4 years ago now. I still have to have regular deep massage work on that hip to keep the scar tissue from seriously getting everything stuck together & majorly hurting.

The worst actual skating injury was from working on my layback spin for my AN program last year, which resulted in a pulled hip flexor, which I ignored until it cost me 2 months off the ice.

I voted for footwork/MITF (dangerous stuff! ).

Lunge = dislocated my right knee & tore a small ligament

RBI bracket = high ankle sprain & broken fibula when I lost my balance and caught my left toepick in the ice

I've also had quite a few hip bruises from doing nosedives on spirals.

Yea, I remember that that particular sprain was quite nasty...my ankle was the size of a grapefruit...and I was getting new boots that week too!

I actually thought of that, but the poll only allows 12 responses. I figured everyone has done this but never heard of anyone getting seriously hurt. Sorry to hear you did.

BTW, I picked footwork/MITF. I broke my ankle doing a 3turn. Just tripped and went down w my foot trapped under me.

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I wish I could have picked more than one!

Broken wrist = stopping on freshly sharpened blades and hitting a ditch in the ice

Broken hand = flying camel

Concussion (2) = footwork

Torn ligaments, cartilege, meniscus, etc. = something around stepping forward into a spiral. I don't remember the fall, thank God.

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No major injuries for me yet. But I did get the palms of both hands swollen for about a month (and no I did not stop skating during that time...) because I was falling on my axels so hard. I was at about 50/50 for a clean axel, but the 50 that weren't clean ended up on my palms, thus the swelling.

Oooo, forgot about the concussion!!

That was while doing totally innocent footwork w/ the choreographer.

(does anyone else go to great pains to make sure their insurance company does NOT know about their hobby??)

The spring of 1969. I was 19 and had been working on multi-rotation jumps. It was about 7:30 a.m. in a deserted rink. I still don't know what happened. I went UP, my free foot caught on something in the air (lace, pant cuff, who knows) and I landed with my feet crossed under me. I have always been a FAST skater and my momentum carried me into the boards knees-first HARD! I couldn't get up and I couldn't straighten my legs.

X-Rays didn't show much and "sports medicine" didn't exist. The hick-town doctor just shrugged his shoulders. I spent many months on crutches and well into the 1980's my knee (either one) would just "go out" on me, loose all strength and control, and suddenly just collapse. Needless to say, that ended my skating.

It has been well over 10 years since I have had a knee give out and two years that I have been back skating again with no knee problems (yet). The speed is still there (or has come back) and I am starting to jump again but I have ZERO desire to "push the jump envelope"! This time I just want to keep skating.

(Since my return, I have had 2 sprained ankles and a cracked rib but they're nothing compared to 15 years of bad knees!)

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A member of RSSIR broke her kneecap doing that. I think she's popped in here too from time to time.

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I dislocated my knee standing on the ice. Found out just recently I also tore my PCL when I did that. I was literally standing on the ice, next thing I knew, I fell right onto my knee. And silly me, I thought the fact that I really couldn't bend my knee or bear weight on it was because I fell, not because I did any major damage, because really, how badly can you hurt yourself standing still?

My other serious injury, a concussion, I don't remember what I was doing. I think the fall knocked the memory of it out of my head. It was just me and a friend on the ice a few years ago. I was doing something, next thing I knew, I'm lying on the ice. Don't remember what I was doing before I fell, and after the fall is a bit foggy as well. I'm sure it was something stupid though.

My worst falls are doing moves.

teresa

DS picked his leg on a double sal, ripped a huge hole in it and bled like a pig all over the place ... all sorts of stuff done to close that one up. Had med techs freaking all over the place (it happened in a competition, of course!). Naturally, caught on tape, and his coach was able to do an "I told you so" moment ... and we were able to seperate the girls with weak stomachs from the ones who thought it was cool

First time I sprained my right ankle was on the landing of a loop-toe loop-loop. Second time was on the RFO rocker going into the end pattern of the quick rocker-choctaw sequence from Novice MIF.

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Originally Posted by phoenix Well, you missed the "stepping on the ice w/ guards on" category

I was able to add two more options - guard falls and "Other."

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for fairness' sake you should have this poll at a board with many young serious skaters too, just to make sure adult injuries don't differ from youngsters injuries?

I have to say I have the worst falls on footwork and field moves. It was this that caused me to break my wrist. When I broke my ankle I wasn't doing much - just skating out of a spiral. Just one of those stupid falls doing nothing!

Nicki

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