Today I landed on my left knee cap 3 times, ouch it hurts!!!!. Is the recommended DEEP HEAT TREATMENT THE REMEDY also with a HOT PACK on it?

Yesterday I fell doing a plain vanilla scratch spin. I don't know what happened exactly...one minute I was sort of upright, the next I was sliding down on the ice. Have a nice bruise on my hip.

Then some little 5-year-old says "see Mommy-I don't want to fall!!!" because her mom was making her skate faster. So I had to get up and tell her I wasn't hurt. I wasn't, just surprised.

I couldn't even 2-foot spin. Maybe I'm coming down with something.

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

Usually for injuries like that, the recommendation is no heat or tub soaks for the first 72 hours; ice only, and NSAIDs if you can handle them. Heat will increase the inflammation, and the goal is to reduce the inflammation.

If you use ice, 15-20 minutes max at one time (longer is actually not therapeutic) and at least 1 hour break between times that you ice, and ice after exercise (not before). The blood supply to the knee is actually behind the leg (the "knee pit" for those of you who are former Ally McBeal fans ), so when I need to ice my knee, I usually try to use an ice pack that wraps around the knee (or plastic bags filled with ice). I usually try to ice at least 3 times a day when I have an injury like that.

After the first 72 hours, some people alternate moist heat with icing (again with breaks in between).

I hope your knee feels better soon. If you need to, go see a doc!

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can i ask how ??? did you fall on your knee cap 3 times? What were you doing?

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TWICE ON footwork and one was a Spiral

rf3ray: So sorry about the knee battering! eeeek. I think the most painful fall I ever took was once to the knee. One time was all it took for me to be in knee pads as I am just now learning jumps. Hmmm, just thought that maybe it is more like a tie between the most painful being a hit on the knee cap or a bum fall on the tail bone! OUch!

Milkawendy: Good information to have! I am sure I will eventually need it again! eeek.

I did not actually fall at all today. Had a few close calls. I need to learn to let go as many on this board have suggested. I just can't! I try to save myself each and every time! I do believe what is said about being more tense and reflectively increasing the chances for more serious injury. Working on it! It feels like a primative response to automatically try to save it though.

I am the queen of the rink at falling, my record is 7 in a 2 hour session.
I had actually gone a whole 2 sessions without falling, and was starting to think that if I just lay off trying that %^#&@#% flip I might be okay. Today in 1 hour I managed 3 falls.

The 3rd was doing R mohawk XO L mohawk XO. DuH! The first 2 I can't even remember what I was doing. I really only remember the 3rd because my knee did hurt a bit. I stay down on the ice and ice the sore part straight away. I believe it helps to get the instant ice on it.

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I can beat that. Last week was 7 times in a 1 hour hour session. The falls were on flips and loops - 2 on flips and 5 on loops.

Well, my goal at the moment is getting my elements consistent....I wonder if falling on them consistently counts lol!?

S xx

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Or two footing the landing!!! (Yes, I know, doubletoe!!! Back to the rink I go to work on my CLEAN landings...)

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

This is something I know I have to work on too. I'm sure I look like a flailing lunatic when I'm trying to save myself anyway so I may as well give in to the fear and just let myself fall!

A few of us were messing around the other night trying teapots/shoot the ducks and I was happy to fall doing those- not quite the same fear when you're falling from that low down anyway!!

Clare

I am just so P!ssed of that I got this Injury, I had off ice training today with it. But didnt do any off ice jumps. Kinda a sucks tho.

It hurts just to bend it in one certain range (a very small range) but I can move it ok and walk on it ok, but running I sorta have to limp. What would you guys do take 3 days off for it to heal properly and dont skate?. I am just getting back to doing axels and flying camels? Its just so annoying that I have worked up to get this far to move two steps back ARGGH

The plus side today was I did a perfect and low back sit to a fast back sitpin, cause my coach basically made me do all my spins on my good leg

Essentially... YUP! (Except in my case it was a week to 3 weeks, depending on the bruise...)

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

actually I wasn't on-ice when I injured myself. I was practicing my salchow in my room and fell on a toy castle (from when I was little) that I was supposed to put in the atic. hehe oops. now I have a nice bruise.

Hopped over a baby gate. A couple of the toes didn't make it. Last week I was going with the theory that they were not broken and would be fine in a week. Now, a week later it still hurts to walk.

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When I bruise a knee badly, I still skate, but I wear a thick knee pad on that knee until the bruise is gone. Also, arnica is supposed to help bruises heal faster.

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Ok, it wasn't yesterday, or even last week - it was back in August - but it was the STOOPIDEST injury EVER!

I had just reached the point where I was somewhat comfortable on backward edges. It was toward the end of a two hour session and I was just relaxing and "playing around", doing back change-of-edges on my right foot when something in my right ankle popped - I both heard it and felt it! My ankle started to swell and it took me off the ice for a week.

I went back to skating and the ankle soreness started again in late September so I went to a physiotherapist and she diagnosed a "class 1 sprain" (the best kind - LOL!)

How in the @$#%$ @$#% can you SPRAIN an ankle in today's cast iron skating boots doing a nice, easy, relaxed backward COE?????!!!

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Ok, so I was walking back down a little path from my backyard, where I had just deposited eggshells on the compost heap. My feet slid out from under me and I fell kind of hard. Cut my foot on some gravel. Was petrified for a moment that it was sprained or broken, but it's not.

I had visions of my skating year evaporating before my very eyes.

I went skating yesterday (ummm, on hockey skates ) and I fell down twice, the second time I whacked my chin so hard I saw stars and rattled my itty-bitty brain (I blacked out for a second or two).

Today I got to visit the ER because I was nauseated and dizzy....got a CAT scan. Diagnosis: labyrinthitis and head injury (no concussion). Doc said the nausea and dizziness was from fluid buildup in my inner ear and gave me medicine (started feeling better after an hour). So, yeah it was seven hours from start to finish but I'm glad I went because it was nothing really major. Hubby was worried tho. And I missed skating today, which would have been an empty session, but my head hurt soooooo much I would not have enjoyed it much (and I also miss dance tonight).

Ok, no more hockey skates without FULL GEAR!!!

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

Good golly! I hope you're feeling better soon! Labyrinthitis is no fun! (Plus we need all of our "Ghouls" at the HC )

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Skate@Delaware, Whew! Glad to hear that your head injury wasnt't as major as you thought. It sounds painful enough though. Ouch! I hope you recover quickly.

So does Arnica Really work?? Hmm ok Cause I have been using DEEP HEAT and Voltaren on it and it doesnt do anything

Wow - take care all! We're a study waiting to happen (and funding).

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yes it does, it heals very well

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I'm trying to avoid getting injured just because I have no insurance now. I can't afford to get hurt. But I've had my fair share of stupid injuries.

My knee is twinging. I have no idea why, but my right knee feels wobbly. Had to cut my morning session short as I couldn't stroke properly.

Don't remember doing anything to it, though.