Ridiculous horse related injuries…

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Unfortunately I went to the urgent care centre in a more urban area who went on the principle if you made your own way in it wasn't bad.

I caught my stirrup going through a narrow gate and jumped off too quickly before horse could panic. I landed hard with my leg straight and heard a crack.

Urgent care diagnosed mild sprain however Dr said if it's not improving in X time you'll have to come back in for MRI. When I did they got annoyed as they couldn't refer me, not my fault Dr had given wrong information. Said they now had to x-ray and did so, confirmed mild sprain and made me an appointment with my GP.

One MRI later torn meniscus, major damage to the ACL and an impact hairline fracture to the tibia which has been missed on the x-ray.

The only time I've done any real damage and done dismounting at a standstill.
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Almost exactly what I did. Completely destroyed my ACL. Bruised meniscus, ripped every other ligament in my knee. Broke the tibia (also not noticed on X-ray). Sent home with paracetamol because ‘it’s not swollen, there’s no bruising’ Don’t know why you’re complaining said the nurse practitioner-tbf there wasn’t a mark on me but every time I put my foot on the floor the bottom of my leg went a different way to the top!

Anyhoo I’d like to say I was competing at badminton or doing a black run out skiing.

I fell off the first step of a small step ladder trying to put a bottle of gin on the top shelf of a cupboard. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤣
 
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My first big injury with horses, years ago. Allow me to set the scene...
Being a young groom and a doormat, I would get on with whatever I was told... At Brooms showground, I was asked to warm up a horse I had a soft spot for and he was usually a dope on a rope albeit a huge one at 18.2hh (unbeknown to me having had the week off prior to this event, his rider had kept him in and given him lots of heating things, to "pep" him up as he usually lolloped along, I know know why she wasn't doing the warm up herself!). He exploded, did a massive Spanish riding school style bronc, which unseated me and the mid air buck he gave meant he effectively drop kicked me 10ft forward! He promptly fell over roly polyed and buggered off, I landed on my head and heard a snap. Came to in hospital with my collar bone sticking out through skin and one end touching my cheek. Massive concussion, bruised vertebrae and bust discs, and bruised kidneys. Wasn't right in the head before, so no change there, but have wonky shoulder with a nice bump on my collarbone now, muscular and nerve pain from incorrect setting, and after years of pushing on I've had to admit defeat from the pain of the disc damage and the affected vertebrae crumbling and stop riding (and mountain biking, but that's another injury thread!)
 
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Parrotperson said:
Almost exactly what I did. Completely destroyed my ACL. Bruised meniscus, ripped every other ligament in my knee. Broke the tibia (also not noticed on X-ray). Sent home with paracetamol because ‘it’s not swollen, there’s no bruising’ Don’t know why you’re complaining said the nurse practitioner-tbf there wasn’t a mark on me but every time I put my foot on the floor the bottom of my leg went a different way to the top!

Anyhoo I’d like to say I was competing at badminton or doing a black run out skiing.

I fell off the first step of a small step ladder trying to put a bottle of gin on the top shelf of a cupboard. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤣
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Was the gin ok?!
 
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My worst injury came when dislodging a recalcitrant stirrup from my share mare's saddle. The saddle rack was in the corner of the tack room and I was wedged in the corner so tight and tugging so fiercely that when the stirrup leather suddenly came free, my elbow tugging it descended at speed and into my lower ribs.
 
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criso said:
Unfortunately I went to the urgent care centre in a more urban area who went on the principle if you made your own way in it wasn't bad.
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Work, many years ago, completely underestimated how injured I actually was, because all I asked for was permission to wear trainers because my foot was so swollen I could not get it into a normal shoe (horse fell on me). Carried on walking on it gently, in the theory that bruising heals better if you keep moving…

Then they asked me to carry 30 chairs outside. Nope. Just nope. Was hauled into boss’s office for not being a team player. Removed sock and shoe…rolled up trousers to show black and blue, massively swollen foot/lower leg. Complete silence. 180 degree turn in attitude, shocked I had even come into work, did I need a lift home, how had I even been walking on that? 🤣🤣🤣
 
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Older generation (I'm talking 25+) horse people just get on with things.

A lass on the yard fell off today. Again. On a straight line. Again. In trot. Again. Onto a soft landing. Again. And now has a sore knee and needed to sit down for an hour or so before deciding she could indeed hobble about a little bit.

There has only been 1 time I have fallen off and not got straight back on either that horse or another one in the next lot. And that 1 time was because it was my last lot of the day, didn't have any others to ride after that (probably a good thing as I was KO'd for about a minute, totally sparkoed on the ground) still got up and led the horse home though 😂 rode the next day, probably shouldn't have but hey ho!

I've not done any daft ones for a while *touches wood*.

I've had plenty of clipping injuries - stabbing the clippers whilst on down into the joint of my finger, duct taped it straight for a day or so to make sure the skin was knitting, looked like I was flipping people off as it was my middle finger 😂 carried on riding, you have 4 other fingers on the hand to hold the reins with.

Got smacked on the head by a hoof on the way down from a rear, got stitches and a nice wee dent in my head from that one. I wouldnt have bothered going to hospital at all if my head had stopped bleeding. As it was 10mins later blood was still trickling down my head and off of my chin. When the dr scrubbed it he said he could see bone 😂 wouldnt let me take a pic though!.

Probably cracked ribs (never bothered going to hosp so unconfirmed) a couple of times from being slammed into the wall. Probably broke toe (again didn't bother going to get it confirmed by xray, no point, to wasn't wonky and was happy sitting next to its neighbour) being stood on. Probably cracked a metacarpal bone flicking my hand at a horse to shoo it from biting me and accidentally smackied it off of the bone at the top of its neck.

Of all the stupid things I've don't I've only been bullied to hospital once and that was for the head wound. No point in going for the trivial stuff.
 
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One of my toes set a bit wonky after being broken- my own fault, by the time I admitted I ought to strap it up it was too late!
Broke the same toe again a few years later, I decided I'd try and strap it up in a way that would hopefully straighten it a little. Didn’t get the improvement I was hoping for, but it felt mostly healed a few weeks later- at which point it got trodden on again. I gave up at that point, it can stay wonky! 🤣
 
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I had the most random and dangerous incident I can remember a couple of days ago. Companion pony (13.1ish, welshish, anxious by default but general sweetie) caught and tied on yard. I walked up to his shoulder, bent down and tapped him on his leg to pick out his front hoof. In less than a split second he spun somehow and lamped me on the head with a cow kick from his back hoof.

Very fortunately 1. He's small with little feet. 2. He isn't shod and 3 (most awesomely) I was wearing my head torch with a thick rubber strap that the impact went smack into. It still rattled my head but if it wasn't for all those things that'd have been the end of me.

So, moral of the story is, remember your BHS sh!t about making sure horse has clocked you're there before running your hand down it's leg to pick it up. You just can't trust horses not to chuck unexpected reactions sometimes.
 
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End of a schooling session and I was just walking to the gate on a long rein when my horse spooked and shot forward. I was totally left behind, by pure chance one of my fingers met the pommel and I clung on momentarily before realising I had no hope of getting back in the saddle and plopped to the floor landing on my hip/buttock.
It flipping hurt and I was hobbling for a week or so, I’m curious to know what I did because there was an interesting bruise / bleed on my bikini line. As I didn’t land on that bit I can only assume something inside was shunted.
Hurt a lot more than when I fell off and broke my wrist.
 
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The only ridiculous one was my pony dumping me right onto a barbed wire fence which literally shredded the back of my t-shirt along with my back. Still have the scars. He must have chucked me just right to get me to slide down the fence so nicely. Same pony also dumped me straight onto the top of a fence post which left the biggest darkest bruise in a lovely square shape to match the shape of the fence post top.
 
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Practicing a few trot up runs for a horse the day before his PPE, just thought I'd tripple check that he'd trot nicely on the lead. Well, horse was flawless but my knee blew and I fell over in absolute agony. Horse yielded his HQs neatly in response to my flailing body language and stood politely while I wailed on the ground.
My OH had to run the horse out for the vet the next day, as I could barely walk!
 
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Many years (50+) ago, was walking a big youngster up a long grassy hill. A wasp stung her on her neck. She reared straight up, lost her balance, fell on top of me, rolled off and galloped back to the yard. I got up, walked back down to the yard, checked her out, walked her round and put her away. Told the YO who said that he'd keep an eye on her Got home and found that I had difficulty getting out of the car (MG Midget). Eventually did so, felt a bit sore but got on with making dinner. Went to GP next day who told me that I had broken bones in my sacroiliac area and to take some aspirin. Did so, and carried on. Still lopsided to this day.
 
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Lyle said:
Practicing a few trot up runs for a horse the day before his PPE, just thought I'd tripple check that he'd trot nicely on the lead. Well, horse was flawless but my knee blew and I fell over in absolute agony. Horse yielded his HQs neatly in response to my flailing body language and stood politely while I wailed on the ground.
My OH had to run the horse out for the vet the next day, as I could barely walk!
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I did a very similar thing. Trotting lame horse up for the vet. Turned to trot back and my knee went. Grabbed horses neck to support myself and did a high speed hobble back to the vet, who was trying very hard to be sympathetic through the laughter (to be fair, I was laughing just as much) and pronounced me lamer than my horse!

Turned out I'd torn my meniscus and horse was eventually found to have a keratoma. What a pair we made 🙄

Edited to add that we both ended up sound after our respective surgeries :)
 
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Many years ago (1997) escorting a couple of very novice riders on a hack. I’m on my own young, green horse and a novice is on a big opinionated mare and has no control. Mare goes for my gelding with teeth, he spins and I fall over his shoulder, landing gentle but wetly in a puddle. Not hurt, yay! Then he tap danced down my right side, on my ribs and hip. It hurt and was grazed and bruised until the next day when I was riding another horse, I sneezed and the bloody rib popped, argh the pain!
 
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Going through a narrow gateway with sturdy metal gateposts, I lifted left leg to get a bit more room. Horse leapt to right, smashed my foot against that gatepost, I heard the ankle bone snap. Got off for lunch, got back on with some difficulty, rode two hours, got off, loaded two horses into 7.5 t lorry, drove hone through Highlands and Inverness for two hours, turned horses out. By this time, it really hurt and daughter took me to a & e . Broken ankle but my long boot had acted as a splint…..
 
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I broke a toe while practicing an in-hand trot before the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. I tripped, flung my whip, scared horse, who I then took off and I fell on my face. Not sure how the toe broke but it did!

Was also kicked by a 3 year old years ago. Was bringing in and knew horse so had quite a bit of slack in the lead rope. He spooked and as part of the spook, turned and kicked out and kicked me in the hip/SI area. Thankfully had my phone on me as I still had a huge 18hh warmblood to bring in who could be a d*ck and the 3 year old running around like an idiot....called a friend who came and rescued me.

Not horse related: I broke a toe from a laptop falling on it at work at the beginning of a meeting. I had my laptop in my arms and reached out to give someone a hug hello but used the same arm that was holding my laptop. It fell straight onto my big toe. I tried to be brave and remain in the meeting but couldn't. Because it was at work, they made me go to the hospital. Sure enough quite a break. The nurse or doctor who tried to wrap it was quite new and was struggling and after a few tries, wrapped it myself. I think to some extent she was embarrassed and I just said to her, "I have a horse...I'm used to bandaging things!"
 
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