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Having managed to dislocate my little finger on Friday night by getting it caught in Archie's mane as we went over a jump, it got me thinking about what is the freakiest horse related injury you've had or come across?
I've seen a few - one friend damaged her ankle ligaments falling off the ramp of the trailer - no horse anywhere near and another knocked herself out with a leadrope! I know that sounds impossible but she was leading her horse with a rope around his neck, he pulled away and the clip end flew off his neck up into the air and hit her on the head! She was fine within a couple of seconds.
Anybody got anything to beat these?
 
Leading my little 32" mini in from the field. Geese made a noise in the allotment next door, Inky shot to the side and so did my knee leaving my lower leg behind
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One dislocated knee and completley torn cruciate ligament as a result 6 days before my wedding
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I knocked myself out on a stable door. Twice. First time, putting hay in - hay blew into my eye, couldn't see where I was going, and walked straight into the door. Second time, I was sweeping and not watching where I was going, and walked into the top half of a stable door.

There's no hope for me really, is there??
 
chipping my foor bone when two horses managed to jump on it in exactly the same place coz they tried to eat some hay out the wheel barrow which had got stuck under the eletric fence... i think they got an electric shock!
and then when my little 13.2hh fell over some grass out hunting at full gallop. i double flipped, he flipped, landed on his back, bruised his eye, got up fine. i was left lying on the ground screaming.. i thought id broken my back, but i hadnt.. but who falls over grass? i mean it was long but really! we even inspected to see if any holes.. but no!
 
I got knee'd in the face by a very enthusiastic mare when I tried to pick her feet. She nearly broke my nose.
She actually did break someone else's nose a few months earlier.
 
Crushed the bridge of my foot when my 17.1hh monster stomped on it.

Um, smashed my hip and cracked ribs when my pony took off with me on the road when I was 13 and slipped and fell going around a corner. I have only found out how bad the hip was damaged recently as it has been giving me real pain - I am 29 this year!!!!

Oh and slipped whilst climbing a metal gate as I was going to count cattle for mum and broke my coxyx - it bends sharply to the left now - that REALLY hurt!!!!
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Horse spooked at person walking the other side of a hedge while I was leading him - I tried to hold on to him but he pulled me over and I landed on my knee on a big lump of hardcore and fractured my kneecap...ouch!
 
oh and very funny, well not at the time but was putting horses out into new field, with LOADS of grass, and they were spooking at the eletric fence, they both charged across the feild, me on the end of the ropes. i was dragged all the way across. i let go. and it took me about 2 hours to catch them to get the headcollars off! was so painful. i was covered in blood and mud as had been dragged through thistles and nettles and sticks!
 
Gave myself a black eye with the buckle end of a stirrup leather. Was cleaning my saddle (miracle) and pulled the leather off to clean it, wallop, one black eye!
 
I was once bringing 3 horses in from the field, all were calm one minute however the next minute one of them decided to bolt for the stables. I ended up with rope burns along all of the palm of my hand and up my fingers, my whole hand was blistered. I spent 5 hours that night running my hand under water and it took months to heal
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I got picked up by the boob by a horse who was very handy with his teeth - I had teeth marks and bruises, but not many got to see them!
 
^^^ I was bitten on the boob too! Was fitting a flash. At that moment I realised why he was meant to be wearing it.

You should have heard what I shouted across the yard....
 
I broke my hand putting up a practise fence at a show, it was a stiff cup and as it released it caught and a bone in my hand snapped i carried on working though and even unstudded a couple horses, then went to a&e and had a massive plaster all up my arm for a couple weeks. I've never broken anything else so i'm not weak boned or anything.
 
I've been bitten on the boob as well - I'm not so coy though, everybody saw my bruise. Even showed the doctor (I know her as well) when I went for something else - she'd never seen anything like it!
 
sissor jumping over a barb wire fence, left my left leg behind on the wire ended up flipped over on my back with my leg still on the fence.............................sob................had to get cut out of my favorite pair of jeans......................sob

also got concussed moving show jumps at a show, me and my friend where taking to poles into the arena i was at the back, we both went under the ring rope and then she stood up before i was out the other side, two black eyes later (managed to head butt both poles)
 
Oh yes, my language was foul both when it happened, and when my boss tried to heckle me out of the caravan to teach a lead rein lesson when I was icing my boob! You **** do the **** lesson your ***** self because that ***** horse I told you not to ***** buy has bitten my ***** boob and I am in **** agony. I did feel rather sorry for the poor lead rein child who instead of lovely emma, sweetness and light, got my boss who hadn't taught a child in years, and couldn't quite understand what it was he was supposed to be doing with them! He actually picked me up by the boob, both feet off the floor, so as well as the acual teeth, it pulled the skin and muscles as it lifted me up - it was sheer agony for weeks!

A very amsuing one was when one of the other instructors was making up the numbers for my sychronized jumping that my camp kids were doing (there were 7 of them, needed 8 so she stood in) We gave her the cutest little piebald pony, universally loved by all the children, but not the best athelete in the world, because a big horse would have looked out of place, and the striding would have been wrong, and you had to work hard to get a decent tune out of him jumping, he was mainly used for basic WT lessons, and she didn't quite ride enthusiastically enough for his tastes, so he stopped on the approach, dipped his shoulder and she flew off. I know we should have been concerned but we were in tears of laughter collapsed on the floor - her pride was injured but nothing else. Took about 20 mintues for us to compose ourselves to get going again!
 
My pony tail tickled a horses belly while I was reaching for a cross surcingle adn he fly kicked me right in the face!
Also cut my leg and have a permenant dent from tripping over the ramp on the trailer (we had no lights)
 
REading these has reminded of all the random injuries I'd forgotten about (or probably blocked out to avoid mental scarring and total confidence loss!) When I was 16 my old boy and I were warming up away from the others at a pony club show - he was a little excitable so I was trying to keep him calm. We were cantering through long grass (Yes stupid I know!) and somebody had dumped a pallet there - he tried to dodge the pallet, lost his footing, I landed on pallet, he landed on me and as he got up stood on my arm and kicked me in the face. DO NOT READ ON IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH. Somehow I managed to tear one of my nostrils away from where it joins your face and it was just flapping back and fore. My DC fainted, and when one of the others took me home to my mum, she fainted! Although it hurt I didn't feel at all wobbly! I had to have it stitched back on.
 
I degloved my forearm to my elbow on a manege fence. getting dragged along it by a pissing off pony.

I've got pics if anyone wants to see them lol!

Also got kneed in the eye by Star as I tried to hose her leg. I had a beautiful black eye! That was just plain stupid and my fault though. I really shouldn't have had my head in front of her knee!
 
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Somehow I managed to tear one of my nostrils away from where it joins your face and it was just flapping back and fore. My DC fainted, and when one of the others took me home to my mum, she fainted!

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Sorry that made me laugh!!!! Can jsut see the DC hitting the deck!!!
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Have only read a few as am now getting sympathy pains!

I tweaked my shoulder putting on a body pro that was a bit too small for me and stretched the ligaments..... for the last 3 years it now dislocates at the drop of a hat, playing pool, reaching in a cuboard..... should really have the op to shorten it again but can't be bothered.... killed enough nerve endings now for it now too hurt too much.

Rich was leading in the 20yr old 3/4 shire, who's normally a saint, when he pulled back. Normally not a problem but some retard had put a knot in the rope which pulled through his hand breaking two fingers. Londitudinal fractures, took 2 months to heal, que me working solidly for the whole summer covering for him!
 
Walked into the feet picking bucket in the dark and have dented my shin.

The buckle of a shetlands headcollar got embedded in my chin when said shetland reared, I also have a lump on my foot from when the same shetland reared up and landed on me.

Lots of stitches in my hand from falling off onto a barbwire fence.

Broken tooth from being given an overly enthusiastic leg up.

Ripped all my nails on one hand off when my horse tripped over his own feet whilst hacking, still not sure how I managed that.

Cutting my face open when riding into a branch.
 
Does me being double barreled in the face and breaking pretty much all the bones in it count?
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yikes.....

My old horse managed to boot me in the face between my eye and eyebrow when I was picking out her back foot very soon after I got her. I was like 'I'm fine and fine' then touched it and got a handful of blood! Nice black eye too. Made me a lot more careful about what I'm doing with back legs now though....!
 
1st Appaloosa mare spooked at a bus, as I was leading her down the road, swung me round and broke my right thumb against a drystone wall within the first month of having her. Same mare 24 years later, after she had retired, refused to come out of her stable after breakfast, I went to get a rope, slipped and broke my ankle, mare eventually came out to see why I was shouting for sister, walked past me, waited for me to open gate (with great difficulty) and disappeared off to graze. I needed 2 plates, 9 screws and 6 weeks in a pot!
 
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