What's your worst sports related injury?

[TNP777]

Mine is a fairly common basketball injury. I was going up for a rebound and came down on the side of another guy's foot. Tore the ligaments in my ankle and was in a cast for 6 weeks or so.

My son's injury was just a bit worse. He was a pitcher on his high school team and during batting practice he took a line drive square in the grill. Tore two teeth out by the root and a third was pushed back into his mouth and for all intents and purposes might as well have been torn out. We decided on implants, but when the time came to do the surgery it was discovered that the bone in his mouth had shrunk. This meant a bone graft had to be done, so a piece was moved from his chin area. Once that healed, he was finally able to get the implants. Took over a year to get it all done.

 

[gt5717b]

Tearing my ACL in a pickup game of basketball. The worst part is my doctor misdiagnosed it twice as a severe sprain. I continues to play sports on it for months until I finally got an orthopedic doctor to check it out because my knee let giving out on me. It wasn't properly diagnosed for 6 months.

Amazingly, I never tore it playing 20+ seasons of soccer.

 

[TwinsWin]

Broke my growth plate in my knee junior year. Diagnosed as tendinitis. Played two weeks off football on it and finally got hit from the side good in knees. Went to specialist that deals in knees. Looks at my MRI from first appointment at a different hospital. Sees the break in my knee. Asks how long it's hurt I saw two three weeks he orders a new MRI and two hours later I get a call that he finds out I don't have a meniscus anymore as that has deteriorated to nothing. I guess I tore it years ago. And now I have a lot of scar tissue on my ACL and MCL. And they don't look like try are holding up very good. In the end I get a scope done and had to wear a acl brace and no contact for one year but I am allowed to play baseball but not catching. If I had surgery I would have been out two years which was equal to the rest of high school. To this day I have aches an pains in my knee especially in the winter. I was told a full knee replacement will happen in 20 years or less

 

[1st4040]

broke my left thumb getting jammed by the coach of the HS basketball team trying to throw the ball off me as he fell out of bounds...still remember the pop my thumb made and my whole hand blew up like a balloon.

 

[tooly22]

Played every sport imaginable growing up, never so much as pulled a muscle or sprained an ankle. Playing Men's slowpitch softball in a fairly competitive league at age 25 that all changed. Turning a double play my pitcher fed me to the 1st base side of the bag (was playing 2B at the time), tagged the base, threw to first and as I released I had all my weight on my left leg. Runner decided to go down late and slid into my planted leg with his big metal knee brace causing a sound that my teammates sounded like two football helmets hitting. Result, compound tibia/fibula fracture and me rolling around on the ground in the worst pain I have ever felt. My 1bman went into right field and puked after seeing what my leg looked like.

Now at 40 I still play, but cant get through a season without pulling a hammy or quad due to the muscle imbalance in my leg.

 

[zach]

Torn ACL and MCL in the same knee. Now rebuilt ACL with my own hamstring and some titanium screws. MCL is non-existent.

 

[Wainwright]

Never really been injured until this past July, weeks before my 36th birthday I was playing soccer with some elementary kids at work and ruptured my achilles tendon. Still going through physical therapy.

All the bike stories did remind me of a time when I was a kid and I was riding pretty fast down the street free handed when another kid rolled his skateboard right out in front of me and I flipped like two times before my face skidded on the street.

 

[TBTwinsFan]

Never really been injured until this past July, weeks before my 36th birthday I was playing soccer with some elementary kids at work and ruptured my achilles tendon. Still going through physical therapy.

All the bike stories did remind me of a time when I was a kid and I was riding pretty fast down the street free handed when another kid rolled his skateboard right out in front of me and I flipped like two times before my face skidded on the street.

Ouch on both!

I saw my friend fly over his handlebars and faceplant once. Thankfully he landed in the grass.

 

[Austin]

I broke my middle finger goofing around at soccer practice when I was 13.
I got in goal (I was not a goalie) and tried to deflect a ball kicked high. The ball smashes my middle finger into the crossbar.
The positive part was my finger, despite a cast, did not grow back entirely straight, so when I pitched, my fastball had a nice movement to it.

 

[Slette]

When I was 5, I ran shin-first into a horseshoe stake an somehow tore my calf muscle completely off the bone. Goofed up any shot I may have ever had at being decent at sports

 

[bricewaynebisel]

Sophomore year of college....complete anterior tear of my labrum in the right shoulder, kept throwing, led to partial rotator cuff tear. Had it all fixed and cleaned up. Blew it out again 12 months later on the mound, complete labral tear, anterior rotator cuff completely torn this time...kept throwing on cortisone to finish teh season and blew it out even worse. Also found out recently (when I broke my right elbow) that at some point my ulnar ligament tore as well, but with all the scar tissue, nerve damage, etc., had never noticed the pain from that.

 

[shayscards79]

Luckily nothing too crazy, just bruised ribs, sprained fingers, back soreness, etc. from boxing. I've got some bruised ribs right now actually, trying to stay healthy for the next golden gloves.

 

[James52411]

Rotator cuff tear and broken bone in my shoulder. Eventually ended my very moderately promising pitching prospects at age 19.