A poll about your worst horse-related injury

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Numerous injuries from being on the ground, nothing serious, but none from falling off touch wood. Worst one was bringing in a couple of horses and 1 decided to bolt towards the yard, my hands were burnt to shreds
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I have had a couple but nothing too bad. Years ago just before xmas i fell off after horse flipped over a jump, put my hands out to stop me breaking my neck and broke both hands!! Couldn't wrap pressies!! Next was out hunting. Someone cut me off over a sizeable post and rail fence. Got the fence post between my leg and saddle and got flipped off on to the road. My back and backside we black for weeks. Next was a couple of years ago. Having a fab lesson. Horse really using himself in canter then from now where leapt about 6 foot in air and bucked, landed bucked again, at which point we were nearly on the arena fence. He went left, I carried straight on and hit my arm on the top rail of the fence. By the time I hit the ground (0.00001 secs) my arm was black with a huge lump on it!! I still have the lump now!!
 
Broken pelvis, crushed knee, so much so that the carltidge popped out and had to have an knee op to remove it (its an arth something or other) - broken ankle, neck damage etc... I was black and blue and the only thing that did not hurt was my little finger. It me 6 months to heel enough for an operation and then 12 months with physio twice a day to learn to walk again.

Oh an you should have seen the "fatal crouch" position when i first got back on the horse that did this - poor thing could not breath let alone move. Took a huge confidence knock, and i still have my moments if i am on slippy ground - i call myself a fair surface rider.

None of this was the horses fault she just got her footing caught and managed to roll on me 3 times..... - best drug in the world is adrenaline - wish you could buy it !
 
being kicked very hard in the thigh.... i still have a lump there, which is a constant reminder to give horses a wide berth, even IF you know and trust them... You can never be too careful handling from the ground, especially round here where there are always idiots shooting pheasants and a shot goes off...need I say more!
 
My horse had a heart attack and rolled over me three times a whilst eventing. Numerous crush injuries including punctured lung. took 6months to walk up stairs again.
15months later I "plopped" off youngster but foot got caught and shattered my ankle joint have had 8 ops and it still is problem
 
Broken arm when 7 yo, concussion when 10 yo and then the "biggie"...fractured spine in two places and head of right femur in seven places. Nearly 6 weeks in hospital and in a wheel chair for several weeks.
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Various other stuff such as broken finger (trying to catch horse), slit open hand between thumb and first finger (trying to catch horse!!). Guess what, I still have her 20 years on but it was her son that inflicted the major injuries!
 
Fractured my vertebrae at the end of Sept by falling off in a jumping lesson. Just happened to be the angle I landed. Still on painkillers now.
 
both lol.

ridden have been: jump cup through leg requiring over 100 stitches, dislocated shoulder, concussion, hair line crack in my lower back.

on the ground: concussion from being kicked, broken fingers, shattered ankle, cracked knee cap, sprains to ankles and wrists, broken foot, fractured eye socked times 2.

think thats it lol
 
Depends on how you define 'worst'.

In terms of pain at the time, then on the ground definitely. Had the crap kicked out of me by a horse, I had no unbruised skin down from my bra line to my knees. Shockingly painful, genuinely wanted to die as I was waiting for an ambulance and wouldn't wish the pain on anyone.

In terms of ongoing problems, then on a horse - or more correctly, falling of a horse
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Upper and lower body went in different directions, I did this in May 07 and am still having treatment for it, as I badly sprained my sacro-iliac and may also have put the funky twist in my spine in too (but that may always have been there).

Ahh horses, I do love them so
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Wow, I feel really lucky. In all my ten years of riding, the worst I can remember is falling off (I was jumping on a curve and the horse had previously ran out at a certain jump, so when it jumped it properly, I was accustomed to going the wrong way and fell off, silly me) and my left hip was sort of numb/the nerves wouldn't work properly for a few days so if I was sitting down and tried to get up, my left leg wouldn't work. I haven't the foggyist what was wrong with it, but at that time I didn't have a horse and rode weekly at a riding school; the next weekend I was perfectly all right and all I had to show for it were a few small bruises.
 
Just to get this into context - I have ridden and been around horses for about 40 years - including mad gymkhana type events, a bit of cross country, some hunting, agricultural college equestrian course and even a stint with Chipperfield's Circus (before the animal cruelty) and apart from some bouncing type tumbles and coming out of the back door when reared with (naughty I know), have only had one injury requiring medical help (am I by no means a brilliant or brave rider); it was this...

The village where my Riding School was based (19coughcough) would have a Summer Gala - including a Donkey Derby. The donkeys were about 10hh and I was not a dainty 10 year old, my feet nearly touched the floor; the "man" slapped it's behind and it set off like Buckaroo. I stayed sort of on for a few strides and then simply bounced off the back.

Broken coccyx and many cushions needed for quite some time.
 
Broke the top of my humerous (the ball bit) when I was 11 falling off.

Had my foot stood on twice in twenty minutes and spent 6 weeks with no shoes on due to crush injury.

Broken thumb when my horse spooked, knocked me over and kicked my thumb as she fell over the top of me.

What a fun post this is!
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Very lucky never to have had an injury that needed medical help but through numerous tumbles I have at some put mucked my back up. My coccyx is really weird. It is sort of like to one side so I can only sit up (right angled to the floor) on my left side because its sort of all bony on the right.??! Like I cant do sit ups for example when you roll up off the floor. I am not sure why but every time I fall off it seems to be my back that takes the brunt of the fall. Fell of hacking and badly grazed, bruised lower back/coccyx. Could sit down properly for a couple of weeks. I remember ripping my jodphurs and knee when pony cantered past metal gate post, caught my knee on it but that was barely anything compared to most posters here!
 
Got bolted with by a pony years ago, he turned the corner in a ploughed field, I went straight on and landed face first in a pile of flints. I was about 8 at the time. A couple of years ago, I was turning my boy out and one of the others barged the gate, my boy panicked, and the others all charged over the top of me. One of them kicked my head BUT I was still wearing my crash hat from riding..... thank God!!
Only last week a pony I was doing for a friend trod on my foot, knocked me off balance and onto the concrete floor of the opposite stable. Not wearing a crash hat this time and I think I was momentarily knocked out.
 
Had accident when on horse tho don't really think of it as serious but had sort of serious results.Was jumping welsh cob who first stopped at a jump then changed his mind and jumped it from a standstill.I really wasn't ready for it fell off and landed on my hip on wooden jump poles kept at side.Thought was ok,had a bum at that side like max wall,bruise was whole side and black!!week later fluid built up got it drained and got an infection through my system.Was in hospital on drip apparently was grey(OH said looked dead) and babbling sh**e,not that remember any of it.
Nurse kept telling me had been seriously ill I just kept saying its just like flu but didn't realise had been in there a week
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On the ground probably being knocked on head by horse's head and then smashing it on the wall also [resulted in seeing stars and waking up on the floor!]

Ridden not had any serious ones but ones that come to mind are when I couldn't walk on my ankle for 2 weeks when my horse landed on me on the road and when I fell face first onto the metal jump cup and nicely sliced my face!
Though, that said typing this now, I came off jumping this morning and my chest is killing me everytime I breathe in, not felt that much pain in a long time! :s I might start wearing my body protector again jumping from now.
 
i was out with a lady who purchased my friends 2 horses she one one me on other we met up with some friends and off to hack ,the lady hade only been out on 5 quiet hacks before on this horse we went down a woody canal path and my other friends asked do u want to walk trot or canter down here i sugested trot the lady wanted to canter so off went when the lady shouted for us to stop ,imediatly we all stoped as i turned round she also stoped ,,,in a standstill now she lost her ballance and came off the horses sholder takeing the reins with her that pulled to the mares mouth and she stampped about she stamped on the ladly arm and when i looked the hoof slit down the inside of her arm and peeled it like a banana inside of elbo to the hand it also severd a atery on the inside of the elbo.the horse was unshode luckily and its a good job my friends were nurses as she nearly bleed to death ,its still not healed properly after 18 months ,,,the moral of this story always wear long sleevs even on the hottest day and dont hold on to the reins if you come off
 
I've ridden for well over 40 years and had some spectacular falls with very little injury *touches wood* But I broke my ankle on the ground almost 3 years ago and it's not right yet.
I invited elderly Appy mare to walk the 5 yards from her stable to the field gate after she'd finished her breakfast, without a rope, as usual. She refused. I went to get the halter I had left over the gate and as I reached forwards for it, I slipped down the shallow slope, sitting down on my foot/ankle. Heard a snap and couldn't bear any weight on it. To add insult to injury, the mare strolled past me, looked curiously at me and waited for me to open the gate for her!
 
I'm quite surprised by the results so far - I would've thought we'd be more 50/50, rather than so many falling-off accidents. Most of the people I know have had their worst accidents due to being kicked or trodden on or, in one case, bitten. I'm also starting to regret making this post, because it may be seriously impeding my road to braveness!
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Ah, we are all mad really aren't we?
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