Guest blog by Linteria Taking advantage of the relatively nice (for winter) weather last night, some friends and I took to the park to play basketball. Since I would get there first, I decided to take my tennis equipment to hit some balls on the backboard while I waited for them.
For about an hour, I was hitting against the wall, looking quite Federer-esque, mind you. But near the end of my backboard session, the default rubberized grip of my racket ripped off about half of a right fingertip.
It didn't hurt that much, but it made tennis a little difficult. (Not to mention blogging...) Then within two minutes of starting the first b-ball game, the hard ball bounced into my right thumb and took off almost half an inch of my nail.
Throughout several games, both injuries bled pretty constantly, and I'm sure the dude I was playing defense on probably took a few blood stains home on his blindingly white hoodie.
Needless to say, I felt pretty fragile, but in a way felt tough for getting two separate injuries from two different sports on the same day. The inconvenience of being essentially disabled on my main hand is what bothers me more than anything else.
Have you ever been injured playing a sport? What about multiple injuries from two or more sports on the same day? Did it make you feel tougher after surviving them?
Comments (10)
I am not that into sports but my sister is. She broke her back playing vollyball once and it is never going to completely heal. It was really painful and now she can't do a lot of stuff, but she still dances.
Wasn't this already posted here a while back?
i've had so many sprains from football, swimming, gymnastics, softball/baseball, ballet, tap, jazz, and israeli folk dancing that my knees (esp the right) are shot now. like totally, to the point where surgery has a less then 70% chance of fixing the problem T_T
i love sports, so i tried taking up tennis, but my shoulder has a bad repetitive use injury from 10+years of year round sports that i can only play for limited amounts of time
quite frankly, it sucks...whenever i do anything i'm always dealing with 2+ chronic injuries :(
I'm a professional tennis player and I've had injuries since I've been 12. Stress fracture on my foot ( played with it for about 3 years, with the pain on and off ), broken cartilage on my left wrist. Lower back sprain, hurt rib, pulled muscles. I've had about EVERYTHING an athlete can have. I think I won't get injured anymore just because I've killed every body part I have :p
It's anything BUT fun but if you love what you do and you enjoy sports, well you know it comes with it. Everything heals and when it does then it's back to the starting line :)
yea i strain my left calf alot in ballet....if thats considered a sport....
~Allie
The summer prior, I developed a condition called Osgood Schlatters, which affects the knees.I am still battling both -- long rallies, strenuous workouts at the gym, what have you, I start aching, pulling out the tapes and braces, and taking longer pauses between points, between sets, between matches. I never completely took a break from tennis, though. I sit out more, I warm the bench, I watch as others do the sprints that I can't. Of course it isn't fun. But as I slowly heal, I know that I'm going to use this as fuel to get me even further with my game.
well...i jus got some cuts on my knees and palms last nite from soccer when i was all the way racing for the ball and fell to the concrete ground on my knees and palms..wat makes it worse is the weather has been esp freezing and dry these days so its like the cuts should hv been deeper and ive2 wear long pants tht the cuts(though w/ plaster on it still) keep rubing against the pants constantly when moving n bleed sumtimes!!!.....hwever theres no way the actual wounds can bring me as much pain as my sucky performance last nite did:((
i jog and play soccer myself.its hamstring pull which annoys me the most.the injuries nvr make me feel tough but jinxed and annoyed.....
I played goalie for my soccer team.
It was my senior year, and the first scrimmage of the season... I dove for the ball and a girl kicked me in the face.
It didn't really hurt... it just felt I'd hit my head on a cabinet really hard. I stayed down for a second to regain sight and applied pressure to it so I could just go on, but when I stood up to throw the ball back into the game... the girl started screaming, "OH MY GOD SHE'S BLEEDING." And I put my hand down and my gloves were entirely bloody.
The first thing that ran through my mind was, "Oh shit, these are my brother's gloves."
But then when the blood got in my eyes and I couldn't see, I started crying... because I seriously thought I was going blind. But then after that was wiped away, while the rest of the team was horrified, I was laughing and making jokes about how I looked like Harry Potter and that this was great for me.
28 stitches, and 2 weeks later, I was back in. :( Except... I'd missed several games.
And then 2 years prior, I hit knees with another girl on the field. My knee got progressively worse to the point I couldn't go up or down stairs. I couldn't bend it. Seriously, it
hurts soooo much. and it swells so much. It seriously looked like I had
a small honeydew melon on my knee sometimes.When my friend John tried to bend it back playfully, thinking I wasn't really hurting so much, he bent it all the way back so that it touched my back.. and I cried so hard it hurt so bad. At that point I saw a doctor. Haha... a bit too late, because now my knee is screwed for life. Chondromalacia patellae, aka "Runner's Knee", is RIDICULOUS.
The other one is on the verge, but I wear an ACE bandage on that one, too, even though it's not as bad as the right one.
And then this past Monday! I was lifting... and because I'm a genius, I didn't stretch.. and could -not- extend my arm. My bicep and elbow screamed in pain. But some hot water and 4 days later, it was fine.
I was about to freak out, because I'm goalie for my indoor soccer team... and we have 2 games tonight. You can't have a goalie with a bad arm :(.
While running for my high school's cross country team, i got a horrible case of shin splints. it lasted for several months. it was the worst pain ive ever felt! just imagine having a needle drilled into your shins each time you take a step to walk or run :(
haha, injuries....let's see I have jammed all my fingers on both hands to the point that neither look like the other finger on the other hand (supposed to be symmetrical) too many still swollen or curved funny. that's mostly from basketball. I've twisted both ankles so much, the right side is permanently swollen thanks mainly to vball and some bball. complete tear of acl and two meniscus tears on left knee from volleyball, year and half later from surgery I'm still wearing my brace cause my knee is still not the same. oh and you gotta love blisters from golf clubs...but yeah, so many injuries from sports - tennis, golf, basketball, volleyball....