Update on broken humans (anyone)

[Pebbles]

Lol hun. It's ironic, but vie only come off twice in more years than I can remember (back into horses for five years now, but rode for many years before that time break). I just do it in style!

Yes me too - 30 yeas of nothing out of the oridinary just usual falls, 10 years off and a very excited return to horse owning/riding and then these 2 horrid falls. Onwards and upwards heh!! Maybe with a good saddle with big knee rolls thrown in for me as someone above suggested!!!

 

[vikkiandmonica]

No where near as bad as any of you, but 2 months, maybe a little more ago, I fell of Wings, hitting a fence, and him standing just to the right of my spine. Doctors thought I may have broken my back/pelvis, but luckily it was just bad bruising. It got very swollen to the point I could barely sit or lie down, and definitely couldn't ride.

Now: The area that was stood on, I can't feel. Like, if I prod it, I can't feel it, unless I really press down, and then it is only a very faint feeling. Can't feel pain in it though, as in, I can nip myself really hard, and not feel it. I think I may have killed all the nerves around that area. The cuts have all healed, and there is still some swelling, but not too bad. I get shooting pains down my right leg, but again, that's not too bad, and is probably due to nerve damage.

Luckily, my back, pelvis and kidneys were all left unharmed, and it was very close, considering where the injury occured. I've been riding again for a few weeks now, and it doesn't cause me any great discomfort.

Hope the rest of you, who are looking at much longer recovery times, recover well and speedily!

 

[MrsHutt]

All of these tales put my minor injuries into perspective:

thrown off by determined moo cow October last year; bu**ered knee and ankle, undiscovered broken leg (despite numerous x-rays and various consultants looking at them! ) for 9 weeks (until I had MRI)! So I was walking around on it and riding after about 3 weeks. However, left with limited movement in my knee (trying to get it better with pilates - seems to be improving??)

On a brighter note, you may remember my friend whose lovely mare died and fell on her crushing her leg and ankle? After many months of treatment (and worry - threatened with amputation, etc!), she finally seems to be improving and had a little ride on a (very lovely) horse last week! You should have seen her face!

 

[ggray1502]

My injury pales in comparison to some of these.
Fell off nearly 2 weeks ago she shied one way I lost stirrup she paniced and I continued to fall she reared the opposite way and shattered two bones in my hand. |Currently in a cast after having the bones manipulated back to the right place. Back to surgeon on Thurs to see if it will need the op to pin it. Very frustrating that it was such a silly fall but consultant said have been worse if I had no had gloves on it would have went through the skin

Hopefully just another 4 weeks then I can get back on only my fourth fall from her in the 5 years I have ridden her

 

[Pinkatc]

Pinkatc I don't envy you having 2 of these pilon fractures!! How did you cope?! I can just about cope with the one.

I seem to have good weeks then bad weeks. I think I try to do too much. I'm at 9 months post op and have nearly recovered my ROM in the ankle but the tendons and ligaments are the hardest. I have been under physio since started under NHS and private but been told to layoff the exercises to whatever is happening in my achillies settles.

What is this vibrating plate?! How does it work? I have used the wobble boards but now at full stretch they don't do much for me now.

Just waiting for the ultrasound scan on my achillies to see what next. I also am thinking of asking for the plate taking out to reduce this pain but they said it would stay in due to where its placed as near major artery and all my tendons as my plate is down the front of my shin (tibia) rather than the side.

Where were your plates and pins? Was it the NHS you were under and they removed them no problems?

Sorry for the millions of questions!!

No worries CarmaandFlin! I broke my tib and fib in the left ankle and my fib in the right. My right foot was stabilised in a gigantic ski boot contraption, they plated the left tib and mine was done down the front as well. 22 pins in one leg, made for a very impressive X ray! It was done privately (thanks to my jobs employee benefits!) going in and coming out; they did say the plate could be left in but might well need to be removed a few years down the line as sometimes they can become unstable. I elected to have it out a year after the op as I could actually feel it through my skin just above the bend where the foot meets the ankle (if you know what I mean) and it hurt like hell if it got knocked at all.

I was in hospital for 3 weeks, then bed bound for 4 months back home before being allowed into a wheelchair. Its very very boring living in the lounge, I can tell you! Luckily my lovely husband and Mum looked after me and the menagerie, they were amazing. My physio was NHS and very good, has yours given you a list of exercises?

This is a powerplate - http://www.powerplate.com/uk/products - a lot of gyms have them now, I'm lucky that my friend is a personal trainer so I got to use hers. The vibration somehow lets you stretch out tendons and muscles more quickly and less painfully, something to do with the intense vibrations I believe. Some doctors actually write a 'prescription' for the gym if its needed on medical grounds, mine did for me so I could go swimming. Worth a try!

Good luck, you'll get there in the end xx

 

[soulfull]

Pilon fracture to distal tibia (ankle!) August 2010 from a silly fall over a tiny jump!! Tried landing on my feet. Big mistake! Thank you Soulfull for all the ankle tips over the past months!

Started back riding building up time in the saddle from Dec 2010.

Was coming on in leaps and bounds till achillies started playing up, shin splint pain where plate is and my back went from compensating for my bad leg!!

Gone back under physio and having ultrasound scan on achillies to see what is going on. So not sure how next stage of healing going to pan out now

Lots of healing vibes coming all to you broken peeps

your welcome hun finger crossed for you

Cracked arm a couple of years ago - Dizz slipped on the road and we both hit the deck.

A bleed on the brain eighteen months ago - at speed, she went left, I didn't.

A broken back at L2 (compression fracture) nine months ago - don't ride when ill. Jumping a grid. Lost the plot at the second one and came off over the third. Landed on both feet.

ouch yeah landing on feet is SO BAD!!! hugs and glad your back riding

Oh dear. I'm another one who thinks it may just be kinder to shoot you.

I broke my shoulder and rode after ten days, I was so bored. And then I broke my arm and managed to stay off a horse for two weeks. I really feel for you!

Anything any of us who live close enough can do to help??


ps my goodness what the rest of you have been through! Puts my tiny problems in the shade that's for sure. I hope you are all well again soon.

Thanks yeah shoot me

That is very kind I'm lucky enough to have some good friends and a fbby sister and son who I don't know what I would do without!