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boneheaded/freak accidents that sidelined you

I once herniated a disc by running through a forest path and stepping on a root.

Pretty much sidelined me for a summer.
 
I've got two golf related accidents that probably should never have happened.

When I was a junior in high school playing in a golf tournament, I was walking to a tee box and stepped on a rock, rolled my ankle, and had to be carted off and rushed to a hospital. I tore ligaments in my ankle and I was out for the rest of the high school season.

Second one I was in Myrtle Beach and my drive went left over a creek, but still in play. Walking up to this creek, I was sizing it up like I'm a long jump superstar. I took the trip over safely, hit my shot, and decided to throw my club to the other side of the creek and jump it. I'm sure you all can imagine how this ended; I came up just short, my feet sunk into the bank of the creek and I cracked my knee cap on a rock that was buried. I couldn't walk for days. Made the rest of vacation very relaxing. Ha.
 
A few years ago when my son was just starting to better me at skiing we were going down a bump run and I lost an edge and landed on my uphill hip, tried to bounce up quickly before my son could give me grief and caught an edge and ended up driving my right ski tip straight down into the snow. Binder didn't release quick enough and I tore my right calf muscle, I was demoing a very heavy crud ski at the time called The Pocket Rocket and I think the weight of the ski had something to do with my injury. This was on the 3rd day of a 7 day ski trip. Thought I was done but with ice and plenty of ibuprofen I gutted out the next 4 days.
 
Playing beach volleyball, I had an opponent come down on the top of my foot. Huge bruise/swelling on it, about the size of a golfball, right on the top of the foot. Couldn't put on a sock/shoe for a week.
 
I had no idea beach volleyball was so dangerous! Maybe its why they play teams of two not five.

Last Friday in Destin, last afternoon after a week at the beach, we're in a 5 v. 5 match and from a center position I call, "I got it". My brother in-law decided he could spike it from the back corner and came with an elbow across the back of my head as I settled under the ball to set it. His follow-thru clobbered my right hand, dislocating my pinkie as well... Drove home Saturday with a pinkie taped to the ring finger and lump on my head...
 
I had two ribs subluxated at work in 2014 that kept me away from golf for roughly 2 months. It took around 6 months for the pain/discomfort to completely go away.

At the Hogan event this year (April 30th/May 1st) I must have hit into an uphill lie too steeply and irritated something in my hand. There wasn't a specific moment that I can contribute to the injury. The following Tuesday I hit a ton of balls of the mats at my club and by that night my hand felt like it was broken. This weekend will be 10 weeks and my hand/wrist still hurts at maybe an 8 out of a scale of 10 at times. I've had x-rays and a CT scan and was told none of the bones are broken. I see an orthopedic specialist next week. I've been in a splint for the past 2+ weeks after getting a cortisone shot in my wrist which didn't seem to help at all. I'm afraid I've torn something and should have been in a splint or soft cast this entire time.
 
IMG_0182.jpgIMG_0177.jpg Let me start by saying this... never try to teach somebody to golf on a golf course... Tried to teach the ex to play... she hit into trees and I was teaching her how to punch out.... I remember saying "do NOT take a full swing" I couldn't even get the words out to say DON'T SWING yet... when the next thing I know I'm face down on the ground... she took a full swing... backswing caught me in the side of the head... blood everywhere... the club shattered my sunglasses and cut the side of me head up giving me a black eye and a concussion.. she did replace the sunglasses, but my ego has not been replaced yet... for the 3 weeks I had a black eye I was to embarrassed to tell the truth and just said I got hit with an errant golf shot... probably the first time I've told the truth on what happened... best part... I met her parents 3 days later.
 
I cant say that I can remember any injuries that I didnt completely earn and that I didnt know the risk before I did what I did to hurt myself.
 
Jumping from one boat to another slipped and took a transom to the chest. Result...a few fractured ribs which are still sore from memorial day. Not sore enough to stop me golfing anymore, but it did sideline me for a while.

Edit: Not a freak accident, but it still sidelined me :sad:
 
Getting ready to go to dinner with my family in high school at our annual charity golf event in Dayton, I was walking into the bathroom without a shirt on as my mother was getting ready to iron some of her clothes. We both had our heads down and met at the bathroom entrance. The iron met my right nipple. Contacted so well that I had steam holes visible where it didn't singe the nip/surrounding area. That hurt. While it didn't sideline me, it definitely impacted my golfing the next day. Luckily that was the day they let me start drinking margaritas!
 
Chopping up some firewood several years ago, my son and I got to screwing around trying to split pieces with one blow. Needless to say, while swinging really hard with the axe, I got a glancing blow, and yanked something in my back. Didn't seem like much at first, and I kept playing even though I had some soreness in my back. I ended up with costochondritis (slipping rib) which took me out completely for the rest of that season. Hitting golf balls was out of the question, even getting up from a sitting position felt like someone stabbing me in the chest. I still have issues with it to this day if I overdo it.
 
Lesson learned last year, was replacing the blade on my mower the morning before leaving on a weekend golf trip with friends. Several things learned actually. First, a sturdy pair of leather gloves should be worn. Second, use the correct tool, a socket and wratchet, a box wrench, not an adjustable crecent wrench... and apparently use a block of wood to secure the blade in place.

I didn't do any of the above and as I thought, "get your gloves and a better fitting wrench, I slipped off the tightening bolt and slid my middle finger onto the newly sharpened blade. Luckily just a flesh wound, it could have been much worse as it did just scrape the finger bone. Cleaned it up, taped it up and still played golf the next two days.
 
War Eagle, myself and another THP member kind of dropped a tow bar on my leg, when we made the trek to Ohio for a THP Tour Van Event in the old big one. It was nobody's fault but mine, but I had a rather large softball sticking out of my shin.
 
I wonder if I still have the picture of that?
 
Broke my wrist skimboarding on spring break in college. Sidelined me from golf for a few months.
 
Dislocated toe last Summer had me out of golf for a month, and a very unstable swing for a couple months afterwards. Was doing some light sparring when my pinky toe got caught up in my sparring partner's shorts when I threw a kick and turnt that thing sideways.
 
War Eagle said:
I wonder if I still have the picture of that?
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I hope so. Man was that nasty. And I didnt even notice it until you said "Whats wrong with your leg".
 
I cut half my thumb off with a mandolin slicer back in 2010. Didnt play golf for a bit after that.
 
JB said:
I hope so. Man was that nasty. And I didnt even notice it until you said "Whats wrong with your leg".
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Here ya go...

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Easy solution, avoid manual labor
 
The latest for me was this last weekend. I did a road trip to Montana to play The Old Works GC. It rained a little bit on the third hole, about two minutes worth. Instead of taking the stairs down to the green I thought it would be a good idea to walk along the railroad tie. I made one step and fell hard on my arse. The next hole my drive went 50 yards from the immediate back pain. Thankfully I had plenty of Vitamin I to get me through.
 
I won't go into all the details but I had 3 ski related surgeries between October 2011 and April of 2012, all of them the result doing something stupid and preventable. I followed those up 7 months later by needing surgery on my arm after trying to move a 300 lb piece of furniture up some stairs with just my 13 year old son and nephew.

Last Thursday I was out paddle boarding on Lake Tahoe and went jumping off some large shoreline rocks with no shoes, slipped and bruised a couple ribs. No golf for me until August.

Here are the rocks that got me.

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Went over the handlebars on my road bike trying to get a KOM on a Strava segment. According to my Garmin was doing 32 mph when the chain snapped. Head straight to the pavement. Hit so hard it split my helmet in two. Ended up with a concussion, road rash that got infected, and a broken hand.

Worst part was I had just started a new job the week prior and had to call my boss to tell him I crashed my bicycle. That the Dr wrote me off for a week and more than likely I was going to be off work for surgery to fix my hand. My boss had a pretty good sense of humor about it and had training wheels waiting for me when I got back.
 
war eagle! ouch! "I... have... 3 knees, I... have... 3 knees"


hold my beer: Was playing RTJ courses in 'bama. I think this was right before dinner after day 1 of 2. Day 1 was warm up day, day 2 was when the competition got real. Buddy slammed my left thumb in his truck door with it LOCKED. thinking, this is gonna take forever, i put my right foot beside the still-stuck-in-door thumb... and pulled. it came out, then turned blue. Had to lance it the next morning. I could BARELY swing a club on day 2.

Freak: 3rd degree separated shoulder from snowboarding. then 6 months later learned I have 3 bulging discs in my back from the same fall. I was out most of the following season and hurt like hell when I did play. all of it still bothers me when I play a lot, like I will this weekend. 72 holes in 2 days. 2 1/2 years out and still "recovering"

about 3 months ago, I felt a sneeze coming and trying to avoid gravity's affect on my own airborne snot, I sat up on the couch. sneezed and aggravated aforementioned back probs

Stay safe THP!! We're not 12 anymore!!
 
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-CRW- said:
I had two ribs subluxated at work in 2014 that kept me away from golf for roughly 2 months. It took around 6 months for the pain/discomfort to completely go away.

At the Hogan event this year (April 30th/May 1st) I must have hit into an uphill lie too steeply and irritated something in my hand. There wasn't a specific moment that I can contribute to the injury. The following Tuesday I hit a ton of balls of the mats at my club and by that night my hand felt like it was broken. This weekend will be 10 weeks and my hand/wrist still hurts at maybe an 8 out of a scale of 10 at times. I've had x-rays and a CT scan and was told none of the bones are broken. I see an orthopedic specialist next week. I've been in a splint for the past 2+ weeks after getting a cortisone shot in my wrist which didn't seem to help at all. I'm afraid I've torn something and should have been in a splint or soft cast this entire time.
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You my friend have a deep bone bruise. I did something similar falling at ice hockey. Thought I broke my wrist. X-rays negative. Took a good 8-10 weeks to fully heal. Bone bruises won't show up on X-rays or often times CT scans. Usually seen on an MRI. It's basically breakdown of the bone am most common in joints - knees, wrists, from impacts that cause the ends of two bones to bang together. It softens the bone but doesn't crack or break it.

The only cure really is rest. I played through it because that's what I do. Dumb as it may be.


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