Injuries - hores related - what have you done?

Gingerwitch said:
Oberon -as my hubby often says "where these no sense their is no feeling"
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Took my, then boyfriend now hubby, to see me ride for the first time in 1996.

After witnessing me fall off at speed (no tack or hat :rolleyes:) and land on neck, flip over in mid air and then lie still......he was horrified.

He ran to come and help me - the Arab galloping madly around and at him - which terrified him.......

I couldn't walk or see and he couldn't believe I insisted on turning the horse back out into the field before crawling home (there was no hay or water in the stable as it was the middle of summer).

After that he has always refused to watch me ride or visit the yard unless under duress :D.

Hubbys do worry about us - we suffer domestic abuse at the hands of the horses on a scale that hubbys would never dream of :eek:.
 
I gave up riding age 14 in favour of powerboat racing cos I thought I was less likely to hurt myself. Instead I broke my back so when I met my husband I got back into riding (4 years ago) I was still having physio as the broken back was only 6 years ago. First outing on his hunter it threw in the biggest buck and I flew, landed on my head and re-fractured the same vertebrae as well as breaking collar bone and 5 ribs!!
So that Christmas he bought me my first horse :) my darling plod in my sig pic and he is as good as gold- just wish I had the confidence to so more than trot. Does it knock anyone else's confidence or am I just a wus? Can't help thinking its 3 strikes and you are out?!?!
 
Of course it knocks your confidance - but you soon forget, you just become a little bit more mindful of what can go wrong - lol !

I dont belive in any of the rubbish of that's the 3 now, or other superstition counting - you can always make the numbers add up to some pattern.

Well thats the logic i use
 
Starting from the top down!
* short term memory problems from various concussions
*snapped off the last few mm of my right collarbone from being rodeoed off a 12.2 (as an adult!):o
*neck, middle back and pelvic/s.i issues from a XC accident as a teenager
*slipped disc and sciatica from being thrown through a post and rail fence
*undiagnosed knee problems, drs think It's from riding for so many years


this does cover about 20 years riding though!
 
Hmm....
Getting a bit of a fence post throught my shoulder after being catapulted onto it!
Ripping the muscle in the arm.. (Hurts as much as a broken bone,promise!)

Being thrown into a jumpwing, massive wound above my eyebrow,huge scar there now,needed stitches :L I thought I was crying when it happened, felt some warm liquid by my eye.. opened my eyes and my white gloves were scarlet... :O :O

On an undiagnosed account, I think I've done something to my knees, and defo had the old toes being squished by massive cobs! :)
 
Broke but happy - you've probably done loads more - you just cant remember them !

What is a collar bone fracture like - i dont know but that seams to be one of the worst ones - can you use your arms ok, what's it like to lie down, or sleep with and can you have a bath?

I hate slopping round like a half dead whale in the bath with my plastered leg waving out the bath - and then hubby rushes in - hits leg with door - and giggles cause i am nearly drowned !
 
GW the collarbone actually didn't hurt that much! I think it was a week before I thought to go for an x-ray :o I had limited movement in my right arm for a while but apart from that nothing that paracetamol couldn't fix!

I have various other injuries but they are from kickboxing, rugby and 1 drinking injury!
 
I've not fallen off that much over the years - self preservation very strong!

1960's -
Dislocated left shoulder, from falling off over a jump
Ruptured disc - horse fell at speed on tar seal after bolting from a double decker bus
Concussed when horse got a leg either side of a rail in a high jump class, had a rotational fall, rolled over me and trod on my head when it got up, cut a perfect hoof shape out of my velvet hat

1970's
Cracked rib - horse fell in the arena - I got knocked out too
Severly bruised shin with a dent left behind - horse fell in arena doing a grid and him and pole landed across my leg

However on the ground - that's a different matter!
Kicked just above the right knee dislocating the knee and had to have cartilage pieces removed.

Reared on by horse and right shoulder joint opened by hoof as it came down - not healed properly so have problems with it.

8 stitches in my head when horse I was clipping lost the plot and reared on me - I didn't drop the clippers!

Trodden on by naughty pony and developed a 'Morton's Neuroma' (tumour) on the nerve between two toes - my doctor's face lit up when he found it. HAd that surgically removed.

Dent in my cheek bone and some short term memory loss, damage to right eye socket after horse reared and smacked me in the face as I lent forward - the poll hit my eye socket - was just like a cartoon bump - massive and black within seconds, blood red eyeball, plus later all the side of my face went black. Had a trip through the MRI scanner as doc thought that eye was bleeding into my brain!

Crushed pelvis ligament when nasty pony rolled me around a fence post when vet & I were trying to get ointment on it's back.

Horse managed to manipulate my elbow back into alignment, I was leading it back to the paddock and it flung it's head upwards and away from me, rotating & pulling my arm in exactly the right way to correct my elbow - saved me a trip to the chiro

All in all every morning now I'm reminded when I get up that I've been around horses for so many years. I ache in every joint and take a while now to unfold ouot of a chair - but I wouldn't have changed anything. Might have been less stoic and actually gone to the doctor immediately so that lasting damage was avoided.
 
Tnvas

Thats quite a list - glad its not just me.

It is difficult when you get out of bed and you look like gollum out of Harry Potter - and then the more you walk the taller you get !

I just hate the cold and wet these days too !
 
Just a couple of months ago I fell off and fractured my elbow detaching my tricep tendon so had to have surgery to sew it back on...It's nearly better! Was I doing XC? Jumping? Even moving? Not really I was waiting for my friend to go out of the gate and my horse bucked ne over his head onto the floor!

Oh well got off lightly with no injuries until then :-)
 
Touch wood, nothing real serious [yet].

2010, chipped my shin bone from horse standing on it after falling off.

November 2011, broken nose and nice scar between my eyes from getting kicked in the face.

Something going on with my hip....I can't rest it in certain ways...no idea what exactly, but always the hip I land on when I fall off so just multiple crashes over time really!
 
ChristmasSparkles said:
Touch wood, nothing real serious [yet].

2010, chipped my shin bone from horse standing on it after falling off.

November 2011, broken nose and nice scar between my eyes from getting kicked in the face.

Something going on with my hip....I can't rest it in certain ways...no idea what exactly, but always the hip I land on when I fall off so just multiple crashes over time really!
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Be brave and go to the doctor and get it looked at before long term damage sets in - they get more painful as you get older but sometimes chiropractic treatment helps.

Definately stabalised my back once I eventually went - some 15 years after the damage was done.
 
Gingerwitch said:
Broke but happy - you've probably done loads more - you just cant remember them !

What is a collar bone fracture like - i dont know but that seams to be one of the worst ones - can you use your arms ok, what's it like to lie down, or sleep with and can you have a bath?

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It hurts, a lot! I started crying whilst waiting in A&E. Mine is pinned as the break is at the end near my shoulder. also displaced slightly on breast bone end so I've got a nice bump there.
I could not lie down for weeks and still can't sleep on my right side. Mornings were the worst time when it had all seized up.
Could not wash or brush hair.
Getting dressed..very difficult and relied heavily on cardies and baggy t shirts.
Could not drive the car for almost 4 weeks.
No lifting or carrying..this has some advantages where housework is concerned lol.
I'm back riding again after 9 weeks off so am on the mend. :)

So in summary..don't do it it's inconvenient and it's painful.
 
Broken collar bone 8.5 years ago, a while later a hamstring injury, it just went riding up an embankment, took a few weeks to get better, I managed to got to work, tried to ride 2 weeks later at just a walk with painkillers and cream, still agony but fed up not riding, had a problem with 2 dogs on the bridleway, one upset spinning pony, felt like physco knife stabbing me in the groin :(, he walked me back with me leaning over his neck saying steady steady steady, numerous bruises from falls, bashed knee on post's, had all the wind kicked out of me a few weeks ago, think he may have cracked bottom rib, ok now.
 
Broke my toes countless times, not always the horses fault though!
Ripped/pulled a tendon/ligament in the arch of my foot (the dr never sent me for scans in the end!) my foot is now flat and cramps up constantly because despite being signed off PE at school I still worked at the yard at the weekend :rolleyes:
I was squished into a metal gate when a huge horse bolted through and badly bruised my ribs but other than that just pulled muscles/sprains and bruises!
 
Accidental kick during in hand spook at a competition venue leading to my entire abdomen turning plum with bruising aged 27..

Dislocated shoulder with simultaneous break of my right humerus from SJ aged 11..

Plastic surgery pinned and fused finger on my right hand with carpal tunnel release (3 ops in 11 weeks) aged 29..

Tip of same finger bitten off aged 6..

Two stress fractures of my meta tarsals aged 31 and 32..

Torn ligaments and tendons in left ankle aged 24.. On crutches +4weeks..

Back, knee, ankle injury requiring physio and a stupid amount of tablets just to get out of bed currently.. Aged 32..

Lung X-rays following a particularly bad fall aged 16..

Inability to walk without agonising pain for a month following a freak pre dismount spook a few years ago when I landed on my right hip..

Nothing exciting.. And many standard doing stuff injuries etc that I won't or can't remember..

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Goodness GW, you have done yourself a lot of injury! I've been riding for over 40 yrs and lost count of the nujber of times/places i've fallen of but the only serious injury i've had was about 3 yrs ago when I was bucked off onto the road, hadn't room to roll and landed with my head on a stone from the rop of the wall. I got up and thought I was ok but the mare had to have time off as the vet diagnosed a bad back. 3 months later, I collapsed at work, my colleagues though I was having a heart attack but it was actually a faint caused by a trapped nerve in my neck.
My other serious injury was also horse related. Silly old fool who normally could be led back to her field after breakfast just by her forelock refused to come out of the box, so I went to get a rope. Unfortunately she wasn't the only silly one. I'd forgotten to put my yard boots on and gone out in my sandals. I slipped and heard my ankle crack. that led to 8 weeks in a pot.
I think passing 50 must mean that I am more fragile than in my younger days!
 
Aged six, was bucked off by norty pony and tore ligament in left leg. Nothing too bad til 18, when fractured pelvis when youngster reared as a wasp stung her, lost her balance and fell on me. In later years, concussion, via a dirty stop, show jumping. Crushed knee, ankle and bruised leg from pony having a temper tantrum and throwing himself on the floor, I got trapped underneath and he trod all over me getting up. Chipped femur, tripping over in dark, uneven yard. Broken ribs about three times. Not too bad for sixtyfour years of riding!
 
I can understand work getting frustrated.

Our company threatens although Im not sure if they have ever inforced that they will not pay sickpy to for a dangerous sports relates injury.
So sky diving.
Horses riding etc!

Obviously you will get statuary sick pay but they is peanuts compared to a normal wage.

You seem very unlucky!
 
Good lord. I galloped horses for 12 years and had a brief stint as a jockey. 7 days a week, 365 days a year, at least 6 a day. I know start babies.

I've had a broken wrist. Continued to pony and gallop while in cast. Broken foot. A couple of days off but kept going. One broken toe. A broken ankle that set itself. Some soft tissue damage to my neck. This is from years 1988-now.

Me thinks TB's ain't so crazy after all.

Terri
 
oooft touch wood i have been very fortunate, I've never had anything serious, i think the worst was when i fell off and cut my back on some stones when i was about 11 ish, the wors fall I've had was when my horse fell on me and then ran off home, if I was injured i didnt feel it i was too busy swearing at the horse whilst standing in the middle of the road! :rolleyes: Im coming up to 21 now and have been riding since i was 2, i out it down to good teaching by the riding school, body protector (when jumping) and good genuine (not plodabouts, but wouldn't intentionally dump you types) horses.
 
I rode from 4 till 34 and was obviously good at bouncing - i rode all the ones that no one else would -my problems started when i should have gained a bit more sense !

My problems started at 34 !
This last one was a total freak accident - i was injured when the vet was treating the horse - but maybe i needed a break lol !
 
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