Care to share your injuries sustained pursuing your love of horses?

Aside from broken fingers and toes from clumsy horses, both shoulders tender permanently, broken ribs on three occasions, Left radius, right metacarpals (hand), the worst was both heels and right talus 2 years ago at eland lodge ODE. Managed a couple of metatarsals (feet) last year on my youngster, managed to conceal that one from wife and trainer so could continue riding. Been concussed at least once although fairly numb in the head department, so hard to tell the difference. Also managed my nose a couple of times.
'fraid hasn't put me off yet
 
Concussion, stiches in my hip, sprained ligaments in both my knees, cracked ribs, broken toe and the funniest was years ago when when my litttle TB got startled at the top on a hill in the woods. She took off, I literally lay back in the saddle so that I didn't knock my head on the trees and a branch caught my boobs. (they are quite big) Once I got home and undressed, my left boob was cut and very bruised - ouch! Yes I've lost some confidence but it's not the riding that bothers me, it's falling off.
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Not worried enough to stop riding though
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I have got injured discs in my back after being dragged.

Cracked elbow after being kicked.

Trampled after a pony i was leading bolted and i did not let go.

Concussion after jumping my pony with no hat on(my dad went mental)

Broken foot.
 
Split muscle in my left thigh after walking behind a horse which was having it's tea!! My fault. Fractured cheek bone and large cut above right eye after a horse jumped onto a wall i was sitting on and landed on my face with it's front foot. Broken left wrist after being knocked off my horse by a car whilst riding on the road - horse got killed. Concussion after horse stopped at a jumped and then jumped it and I fell off. Lost a finger nail after horse bit my finger. Various cuts and bruises and trodden on toes aswell. But not really done too bad in 32 years of riding compared to some of the stories above!!!
 
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It's a bl@@dy long list with me
1. concussion a few times
2. broken ribs and breast bone
3. dislocated discs and broken vertebrae
4. metatarsal and 2 toes
5. dislocated both shoulders in one go
6. fractured cheek bone
7. broken knee
8. dislocated pelvis

apart from that the usual knocks and bruises here and there.
I used to event as a junior, numbers 1, 3, 5 and 8 were all in one go after misjudging slightly a drop fence. I'm a show jumper now
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Broke my arm from a fall, also ended up with a hideous swollen bruise above my kidney (small of my back had landed on a rock) in the same fall. Very lucky I had no internal bleeding.

In another fall I came off from a horse at speed and landed on tarmac on the small of my back. Ouch. Lower back still gives me pain.
 
The worst was last January. Got kicked in the face leading one of the broodmares, air lifted to hospital, reconstructive surgery to rebuild my upper jaw and plates and screws holding my lower jaw together. Now have dentures and more surgery lined up to take bone from my hip to replace my missing top palate, then I can have implants.

Left me with wobbly confidence with the horses, no income (self employed), and huge self lothing (I had all last summer with no teeth and wanted to die everytime I looked in the mirror)

Other things have been quite minor in comparison, fractured cocyx (sp), broken hand, fractured wrist. But I'm still alive
 
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It's certainly not a good way to spend Christmas, I can vouch for that....
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I never had a nasty fall until I started riding again after 3 and a half years off last summer. I was hacking out a great big 17hh+ show jumper called Beckham who was usually very well behaved if a little dippy. We got caught in a rain storm and the roads were running like rivers. We walked past a drain that was gurgling...and once he went past it he did his best rodeo impression, slipped on the road and scared himself and went even more wappy. It was a slow motion moment....I could see the tarmac coming towards me and just knew it was going to hurt.

Becks pegged it home leaving me staggering around not knowing what was going on. A chap came and rescued me and aparently I refused an ambulance til I knew Becks was home ok. I had a very nasty soft tissue injury to my arm and shoulder which still gives me pain, I had bit right through my bottom lip and was covered in cuts and bruises. I lost my memory for a couple of days and was told my riding hat was cracked right through....doesn't bear thinking about had it not fit properly!

And in january I was thrown onto a cross coutry fence by a very naughty pony back first. I managed to get back on and get the little bugger over it, but once I got off I coldnt walk...off to hospital again! Fortunately not as serious as first thought, touch of sciatica and bruised vetebrae.
 
Oh boy where do I start

Various broken bones in foot and toes
Whiplash x 2
Pulled shoulders
Broken Ribs
slipped disc
torn thigh muscle
kick and bite cuts and bruises
Dislocated thumb
bruised ribs

Ha - I work in orthopaedics for an upper limb consultant and it sounds like you have a frozen shoulder which takes 18 months-2 years to heal.

Anyway, I am 37 this month and I still ride, but the one thing I cannot face is jumping. Even trotting poles bring me out in a cold sweat. Most of my injuries have been through jumping and I have found that the older I get, the more sensible I have become. I am quite happy not jumping. My horse cant jump anymore either due to bone spavin, side bone, previous split tendon and we are both happy pottering around muttering about our aches and pains.

You will be able to ride with the clavicular plate in. Give yourself and your body time to heal and strengthen and take things slowly. Dont put any pressure on yourself with time scales etc. You will ride and do things again at your own pace as you feel you are able.

The plate may or may not need to be removed at some point, but cross that bridge when you come to it.
 
Dislocated my left shoulder falling off over a jump. V painful took months to heal.
Ruptured a disc in my back - spent 6 weeks in a plaster jacket and 15yrs on maximum Paracetamol until taken to a chiropractor by my boss.
Knocked my self out and got concussed when my horse flipped over a jump, rolled on me and then trod on my head when he got up. He stood off the jump which was very big and came down into the back rail - I now have a subconsious fear of long strides.
Cracked a rib when horses feet went out from under him in the arena. V sore for several weeks.
Dislocated my right knee and chipped the cartilage when a horse kicked me just behind my knee. Made me very nervous around horses for a while - very careful moving around the back end of them.
Dislocated right shoulder when horse I was leading reared up and struck me on the top of my shoulder joint as it came down. Joint is still very slightly out of line - very sore sometimes.
Had my head split open and got 8 stitches when a horse I was clipping reacted to the twitch, reared up and spun round coming down on my head. Didn't drop the clippers though!!! Very careful now to keep an eye on a twitched horses behaviour.

Guess you could say that I'm either stupid to be still involved with horses or totally completely and utterly addicted to them.
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Broken hand
Suspected broken neck - turned out to be whiplash
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Twisted pelvis
Cracked shin bone
Permanent muscle damage to right bicep
Slightly broken nose, though you'd never really notice it!

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Fell off Little Cob when he was standing still - I didn't actually make it on
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. Fell, twisted, lay on back thinking "I'm getting too old for this". Daughter and pony both laughing hard enough to join me
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It was funny, but managed to bu&&er my leg for a couple of weeks and I couldn't ride my motorbike
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On the whole, over a number of years of riding loonies, I've only had concussion and that was once (bucked off and sat on bum on road, hard. Hurt!).

Puppy - I'm forever telling daughter to stay away from the back ends of horses after reading of your accident! Have just shown her your pictures - maybe that'll have an effect!
 
I've been pretty lucky considering how many falls I've had over the years. My worst injury was breaking my collar bone but I had it pinned and plated so I was hacking after 2 weeks and hunting 2 weeks after that.
 
I have had a few mishaps: broken wirst(whilst getting on!)2 ops later its still not right, broken scaphoid, broken ribs and bruised kidney from being trampled, dislocated shoulder and ad to have surgery, sprung collar bone and cracked sternum, dislocated knee from being kicked, nerve damadge in my forearm from being stamped on, broken foot, broken toes, cracked ribs and subluxed a rib(very painfull, you have to wait for it to pop back), whiplash several times.
None of the above has been done by my own horses, I think the worst mine has done is give me a broken baby toe and concussion from the only time he has managed to buck me off!
Why do we do it? cos horses are great fun!
 
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