Thread 76738993

What's the worst injury you've had? How long did recovery take? Was the recovery hard/painful? Did you fully recover or was it never quite the same?

Broke my femur 3 months ago in a motorbike crash. Compound fracture and severed my peroneal nerve so I got numbness down the outside of my leg, in my foot, and I got foot drop.

Recovery has been hard and painful and I don't think my leg will ever be the same again.

Please share your recovery stories with me.

>>76738993 (OP)
ruptured my Achilles' tendon, fucked me up for god knows how long. shit led to me giving up fitness for way too long.

My parents being useless pieces of fat slob shit is a chronic lifelong injury of mine that keeps manifesting as arbitrary symptoms that are easily preventable with good parenting.
My bad hygiene and inability to speak to people properly has left me isolated, unmotivated and in chronic pain from
>camel's back that broke this week and the fix requires extensive rigorous routine to be added to my already too long list of things that I do so this and that doesn't ruin my life any further.
A person in a wheelchair is less disabled than me, they even get government gibs unlike me.

>>76738993 (OP)
torn bicep + surgery

Tbh I don't even know. I used to run everyday, then one day I got a pain in my outer hip, then during and after every run the pain would come back, and some days the morning after it would be so intense I'd fall over when getting out of bed.

Fast forward a year of no running, it hurts when I sit down too long... A dull pain in my hip that increases over time while sitting, and if I run the pain comes back pretty quickly.

It's the reason why I stopped running and started lifting instead. I had assumed I just had weak muscles, but it's been almost two years at this point and the issue hasn't resolved itself despite rarely even doing the activity that causes it anymore. It's mostly a minor annoyance, but meh .

>>76739007
Sounds painful. Have you got back into fitness now? I have started to lift really light for higher reps again but I'm waiting for my bad leg to recover so I can squat before I properly train like I was before. The atrophy in my bad leg has been wild

>>76739029
Might sound cruel but can't you just cut them off if they are that bad?

>>76739033
How long ago? Did you manage to fully recover?

>>76739053
You need to see a doctor or physio mate lol. I got really sore shins when I started running but they went away after a couple weeks of consistency. Got really bad pain in my knee right now as a side effect from the leg break, makes it hard to come up from a squat because it hurts so much. Hoping in time that it will go away fingers crossed

>>76739082
Cut what off?

>>76739033
it was first may of coof so like 2019 or 2020. supiantion is weaker, radial neve is irritated very easily but arm flexion is fine, same as before

>>76739083
Your parents if they have that bad of an effect on your life

>>76739105
How about the strength of the muscle did you manage to get back to how strong it was pre injury? Good that you got range of movement back. Getting ROM back in my knee has been torture just physio cranking it as far as it will go and over time I'm almost back to same ROM as before

>>76739115
How is cutting off my parents gonna fix my life now?

>>76739082
>Sounds painful. Have you got back into fitness now?
Yeah, sorry for the sage earlier.
I was bedridden for a while and it took me about a year to get into something resembling any serious activity. I mean, shit, I still feel it every now and then, and it's been a decade+ since it happened.
I got back to fitness but did a complete 180 and focused on things I enjoyed when I was younger: skating, amateur ballet routines, gymnastics, anything involving balance, lightness, explosiveness, and such. Nothing close to a pro level, I'm way too old for that shit, but it's something that's closer to my natural lankiness.

>>76738993 (OP)
Shooting star was a great meme

>>76739115
strength is basically the same, some movements feel easier some feel more difficult

>>76739053
same thing happened to me. you may have tight hamstrings and glutes. been dealing with it for years. constant hip pain. then some fucking ai chatbot told me i had tight muscles and which stretches to do to fix it and the hip pain went away overnight. it's worth it to investigate this cause. i'm sure a physical therapist could help you as well.

>>76739121
>Yeah, sorry for the sage earlier
Dw i didnt even realise haha. I only made this thread to see if anyone else has had a bad injury like mine and if they made it back because right now it really feel like I'm not going to fully recover from this. But I'm still only a little over half way through the supposed recovery time so we will see.

I feel you mate a bad injury like that really kills your motivation for life I can't lie I was almost ready to completely give up. Did you have to have surgery? How's the range of movement in your ankle? Does it ever hurt still?

>>76739134
That's good to hear

>>76739144
What did you do? Ive just been trying to strength train my lower body out the pain (and failed)

>>76738993 (OP)
I got in a car wreck 3 months ago myself. Got a trimalleolar break in my right dominant ankle, got part of my finger amputated, sprained my left ankle, and cut my eye. I’m back to lifting and trying to run but it sucks. I really miss how I used to feel. My cardio is shot, feeling pretty weak, etc. But I’m hoping it’ll get better. Doing a lot of home physical therapy, yoga, stretching, and postural exercises along side my usual shit. It’s tough though because I’m a bartender so I’m on feet all the time.

>>76739743
Are you back to work already? I'm planning to return in January, and I'm a carpenter so yeah if i don't recover fully will have to find a new career which is still a possibility.

How's your range of movement in your ankle? Hows the pain? I feel you my cardio is completely gone and my strength has significantly declined too

Chronically fucked disc somewhere in the cervical that's easy to aggravate. I always feel some level of discomfort, regardless of how long it was since the last flare up. I feel it's turning me into an old man.

>>76738993 (OP)
Nothing that serious, but here are my top 3...
>partial LCL tear ski-jumping, shot up some pepetides did a knee brace a few months was fine
>ankle sprain tripping over e-scooter, bit of compression and bracing for a few weeks was fine
>wrist sprain running e-scooter into curb, just a couple weeks of bracing was fine
My mineral and armor skills are pretty S-tier so I've only dealt with soft-tissue injuries, kek.

>>76739814
Is there any treatment you could get that would fix the problem like physio or surgery or something?

>>76739819
Seem to be a lot of e-scooter related injuries there mate haha. Trust me I thought I was invincible until I crashed, all it takes is one bad one.

>>76739843
fr fr; I hit a car that ran a light into a crosswalk once but it was so low-speed it didn't even make the list and was only a few bruises, I mostly stick to bike paths now, kek.

>>76738993 (OP)
from lifting : costochondritis because of heavy dips, knee tendonitis from lagging posterior chain because of huge quads that stole all the squat work

outside lifting : sprained wrist

>>76739121
kek I thought I was the only one this keeps happening to me with the saging

two worst that i've had to deal with have been de quervain's tynosynovitis and an inflammed/entrapped ulnar nerve. both were from repetitive motions at jobs. the tynosynovitis got bad enough that it needed a cortisone injection, but it never came back.
lifting has been very kind to me overall. worst i've had from it has been some mild knee tendon aggravation from overworking squats and a little shoulder aggravation very early on when i was benching with too much flare

>>76738993 (OP)
Torn ligament in pelvic floor 5 years ago. Still dealing with it. I'm back up to squatting 185 for 20 but I'll never even try 300+ again.

Also, smashed a thoracic disc with some boxing bands that I wore higher up on my ribcage to keep the resistance more directly in line with the punch rather than attaching at the waist. Threw my jabs with too little tension in the back and just took my ribcage with the punch and destroyed a disc. Not quite as bad as the pelvic floor situation but it restricted breathing for months and I still feel it time to time.

I've never had a serious injury or even a minor one. I attribute it to being a manlet made of rubber, cause I've done a lot of sports and had plenty of falls and everything that comes with being a dude who likes sports and taking risks.
I have a ton of scars, marks and crooked parts as a result, but never had anything that needed treatement.