Most uncomfortable place for a bruise - Page 3

Isk8NYC · #51 06-23-2006, 08:35 AM

I wiped out last night while teaching. I was doing perimeter stroking with a student and exaggerating the "together and push." Caught my toe pick on my pant leg, couldn't get it out and I was already leaning to the left -- I knew I was goin' down! LOL

I banged my hip, elbow and then slid a bit, stretching my shoulder. Apparently, it looked really bad -- everyone stopped to see if I was all right. I got right up and continued the lesson, when our russian coach brought his student over and said "See? This is professional. She falls, but does not hurt herself. You must be like that, too." I laughed and told him he owes me a shoulder massage.

I always take ibuprofen before I skate/teach, at the sports ortho's suggestion. I think that's why I'm sore, but not bruised, today. Except my elbow, which is a bad spot for me - I tend to be an "elbows ON the table" person. Guess I'll have to work on manners.

Healing hopes to all who need them.

cutiesk8r43 · #52 06-23-2006, 10:22 AM

one time i was working on my footwork sequence and i tripped and landed on the side of my head. well not quite my head, i had put my arm out. so the only thing between the ice and my head was my arm. it hurt

~cutie

Kelli · #53 06-23-2006, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by aussieskater

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?

Totally agree. I know I've said this before, but I literally will not step on the ice without my knee pad (only for one knee). It's one of the Skatingsafe pads, and after 5+ years at my rink, there are still coaches who don't even realize I wear one. I test with it as well, and I've never heard a word about it from the judges. If you need to wear it, just wear it; your coach might not even notice.

Since it's sort of relevant to the thread, I wear the knee pad to protect a cyst/some sort of loose tissue on top of my knee cap. Forget falling on it, if I even bump it wrong I can't think straight. I'm pretty sure the tissue is scar tissue from many, many, MANY Axel falls years ago. So that's the most uncomfortable place for a bruise for me.

Skate@Delaware · #54 06-23-2006, 01:13 PM

I wear the thin skatingsafe gel pads when I skate. Not all the time, but when I'm working on jumps, or if it's been a while and I'm working on certain moves. Although I will admit I have gone down doing nothing in particular!

My chiropractor always asks me if i've fallen (he can tell) and then asks me if I was wearing my pads. He saw my last hip bruise and wasn't too happy (neither was I as it hurt like the dickens for weeks!)...

My coach doesn't care if I wear pads or not, as long as I try hard!

aussieskater · #55 06-23-2006, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Skate@Delaware

I wear the thin skatingsafe gel pads when I skate. Not all the time, but when I'm working on jumps, or if it's been a while and I'm working on certain moves. Although I will admit I have gone down doing nothing in particular!

My coach doesn't care if I wear pads or not, as long as I try hard!

I'm like you - I wear the gel pads sometimes, depending on what I'm doing. Due to advancing age, past injuries (and two little kids, and a job, and a mortgage...

), I need to protect both knees and one hip. Because I don't wear them all the time, they haven't become a crutch and I can skate comfortably without them (although in their defence and when properly applied, the gel ones are so unintrusive that when I'm wearing them, I don't even know I have them on. Nor do the coaches - and I wear a skirt.)

I know I should be wearing the knees more often..but I forget them, and am then too lazy to go back and put them on.

I do make a point of wearing them in synchro training once we have the program set and are training it at speed - being flung out of a circle (because you forgot to hold your shoulder straight and lost your grip) leads to nasty hip and tailbone bruises!!!

OTOH, the worst falls are the ones where you're doing nothing at all, and pads don't tend to help those ones anyway!

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