Injured during a pickup game? Commiserate with me.

[GreenFaith1819]

Wow - I thank God for this thread...TP to OP.

I am looking at a partially torn Achilles right now...I am tentatively scheduled for surgery on Thur. Please keep me in your prayers.

I did it while playing ball, of all things...I was doing pretty well, too...most of the kids were roughly half my age. We were actually winning 9-6 and then this happened. One of the youngsters jokingly called me Tim Duncan - I told him, "Naw young fella - more like PJ Brown."

I went up to deflect this guard's shot - came down - and a few secs later it felt as if David Ortiz had popped me in the lower leg with one of his homerun swings.
 
I've never had surgery before in my life, so of course I'm concerned. But I know I'll be fine.

[Timdawgg]

I have sprained my ankles, pulled my calves about 30 times and hurt my back after getting undercut. Still have pain all the time in my lower back. The worst injury I ever had was when I was on my way into to play a pickup game in a gym. I tripped on a little pebble in the road and rolled my ankle so bad my tendons were balled up on the top of my foot. I couldn't play for 2 months. The most annoying part was being excited to play, practically crawling into the gym taking my shoe off and realizing I didn't even get to play for one second that day...

[mgent]

My left knee has been a little messed up a year or two going.  Hurts in the morning and my leg shakes if I try to lift it straight up by itself.  Anyone know if that's gonna get worse?  I just assumed it's typical damage from going so hard on it.

[BigDanz2000]

Playing basketball at the YMCA here in Hartford, I destroyed my left knee after I blocked a shot.  I blocked this kids shot, and when I was coming down he made contact with my knee, causing it to be unstable on landing, dislocating the knee and tearing the ACL. Never felt such pain in my life.  The worst part of the story is that after getting it checked out by an orthopedic and without health insurance at the time, I opted against the surgery.  He warned me of the struggles that I would encounter further down the road.  It took me 6 months to be able to get about 75% full range of motion back in my knee and 2 years for me to be able to have a normal stride that would allow me to run, in a straight line of course, being that I have zero lateral movement in my left knee and that it shifts out of place with quick turns and locks up with quad stretching. 

After a few years of dealing with it and working out my quads to strengthen the quad muscles for added support, I felt, what seemed at the time 100%, knowing my limitations, but feeling I could do almost everything I used to.  Went to Jim Evans professional umpiring school and while I was down there, felt the knee buckle, twist oddly, and lock up out of place. Again, dislocated.

it has been 7 years since my last dislocation, but I do still have a great deal of maintenance to do with it.  I do still umpire and luckily have not suffered anything to bad with that knee. 

I feel all your pain! We are quite the M.A.S.H. unit.

[Rondo9dunx]

When I was 19 I had these big plans to move out to california. Two days before I left I was playing some tackle football with like 20 friends and I completely blew my knee out. Doc told me all the cartilidge behind my knee cap was shattered and needed to be surgically removed. Didn't have health insurance at the time so I never got the surgery. Took me about 2-3 years to be able to walk without pain and I still can't run.

Worst day ever.

[Rondo9dunx]

And you would think oh it must suck to have a good knee and a bad knee. But when you're recovering on your own with no medical attention it's easy to just start favoring the other leg and eventually mess that one up which is what happened to me. Same thing happened when I broke my wrist, over-compensated with the other one now they are both jacked up.

I'm 29 with 2 bum knees all thanks to a game of tackle football

[ballin]

Well I got my MRI yesterday, and it doesn't look good. I don't see a doctor until May 2nd, but I've already looked at the scans and I spent about a half hour comparing them to what I've found on google images.

The diagnosis? I'm 95% sure it's a fully torn ACL. The thing looks like it went through a blender. Of course I'll have the doctor tell me what I already know next Monday, and then it's time for surgery.

On the plus side, when it's all over I'll now have TWO cadaver ligaments plus a dead man's artery (long story) so I'll have absolutely NOTHING to fear from zombies. They'll think I'm one of their own

[j804]

Dang good luck with that, I've got a bad shoulder from ball pretty sure it needs to be scoped clean 

[manl_lui]

wow i hope you feel better, I only sprained my ankles while playing pickup ball,

most of my knee injuries came from volleyball, doctors think that i might have tendinitis =\

[Prof. Clutch]

Oh the things we do for the game we love...