When you have a nasty fall..... What do you do?

[EquestrianFairy]

Just interested really...

Obv if your arm is hanging off i'm assuming A&E

 

[Lill]

See i just take painkillers and ignore it!

I know a few people however who go and see every Dr Physio etc they can and seem to make a right fuss!

 

[Baileyhoss]

i'm a pain killers and get on with it one as well.

 

[k9h]

I get back on!!
Then later pain killers!

 

[zozo]

well last time i had a nasty fall the first thing i did was get back on with blood dripping down my arm! ( i got carted off with within a indoor school and was deposited into the wall!!) jumped again then went out into a field! got carted off with again and fell off again! then got on a different horse and rode that!!

then i went home, had a gd cry, a hot bath and pain killers. could not move my arm for days after! and had the biggest bruise and graze ive ever seen! just wish i had taken a pic!!

 

[checkmate1]

painkillers and ignore. Though when I slipped my disk I couldn't ignore it, I couldnt walk. So it depends on how serious the fall was really dosent it?

 

[pinktiger]

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I get back on!!
Then later pain killers!

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i take the pain killers so i can get back on!!!lol

 

[ISHmad]

Go to hospital, do not pass go and have lots of metal plates and pins put in you... And no, I'm not joking!

 

[Flibble]

Hot Bath painkillers and Chiropractor generally do the Chiro thing as my pelvis was very twisted for several years and I had bad back pain.

In an ideal world I would fall off on alterante sides just to keep balanced hee hee!

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Get back on...........bath and pain killers later!!!!!

The exceptions being when I broke my hip, pelvis & knee (stood up then relised I really was broken), so called ambalance!!!

 

[Beanyowner]

I get back on...then pain killers when I get home (sometimes) and a hot bath with radox. Only see a doctor or physio or something if an ambulance or A&E are involved!!! lol!!

 

[Maisy]

It depends how bad the fall is really...........I broke my collar bone out hacking once and couldnt possibly have got back on, but with broken ribs/cocyx/nose I have got back on and sorted myself out later!

 

[Smash]

Get back on if at all possible. Other than that, take a few painkillers and carry on, unless my brains had spilt out etc. in which case I would go to A&E and stit there for 6 hours reading Bella issues from 1998.

 

[frannieuk]

The last bad fall I had I got back on, carried on and finally went to the doc 5 weeks later, only to find out I had broken my collarbone. It didn't hurt that much tbh, but I have probs with that shoulder anyway. After I'd been to the doctor I saw a physio who also diagnosed quite a few damaged muscles from the same fall. Generally I only go to the docs when it hurts for too long, but I do see a physio fairly regularly for an ongoing problem.

 

[piebaldsparkle]

God how could I have forgotten my collar bone (that REALLY hurt).................another hospital job!!!

 

[muffinino]

Last time I fell off was out hunting (horse peaked on landing, fell on his face - see left hand of sig) Once I'd seen that T was ok (he got up and carried on jumping - he was fine!

) I got back on and carried on jumping. Used a lot of deep heat that night then went out for a friend's 21st! The alcohol consumed that night was, of course, entirely medicinal.

I was bloomin' sore in the morning though!

 

[Accy]

Last big fall, I carried on as normal for the next two weeks till the OH made me go and get checked out, turned out I had two broken ribs

 

[Ezme]

Any fall throws my back out so i'm down the chrio as soon as he can fit me in. At the time I get back on tho, then at home its baths and ibuprophen/similar anti-inflamatory

 

[SDH]

I'm a "Bath & painkillers"

Altho last time I had a really impressive bruising from a fall (landed on my bum on the XC fence, that beastie had refused, grrrr) my OH photographed the damage and emailed it to my suitably horrifed mother!

 

[emmmmmma]

I aways get to the phsio. Riding a horse with discomfort simply transfers to them causing them back problems and affecting their way of going.

 

[Zoobie]

Got back on, stupidly didn't go to A & E ( OH thought I was OK ) couldn't walk and 2 weeks later found out I had fracture to my knee, lots of nausea and dizziness for a while later. Year of weekly physio on leg and had a severely bruised collar bone. OH was in dog house for months. Emotionally screwed me up for months.

 

[RachelFerd]

I used to have the convenience of a mother who is a doctor on hand - always opted for the hot bath and painkillers, apart from the one time she insisted I go to A&E - swore nothing was broken, but I had actually broken my arm, so she was right.

now she's 150 miles away, so I have to ring her up when I come off and feel a bit dodgy

 

[Persephone]

My arm WAS hanging off!

I got a blue light ambulance to A & E. V. exciting!!

J0ojo x

 

[ajn1610]

Heard about an fall in Ireland were the St Johns Ambulance, in their haste to get to a casualty, skidded and ran him over - whoops! Apparently he wasn't badly hurt but talk about kicking someone when they are down!

 

[Evadiva1514]

The last nasty fall i had, i was carted off to A&E with a broken wrist, but usually i just take painkillers and relax/rest etc.

 

[kerilli]

i won't take painkillers, i don't want any pain masked as i might make it worse without realising.
hot bath, ice on whatever's hurt if necessary, big meal and lots of sleep. chiro a few days later if i feel out of line.

 

[only_me]

Get back on

in 2002 my pony slipped and fell on me, and i ended up with broken collarbone and concussion but i got back on

and then went to AE before skool next morning

but usually i try to ignore it as "what ever dosent kill you makes you stronger"

 

[Gentle_Warrior]

hot bath pain killers and see how it is in 2 days

 

[Acolyte]

Never really had a nasty fall! I came off at an event once and was studded - I didnt realise I had a big (3") hole in my leg until they made me take my breeches off in the St John Ambulance

So I refused to go to Bridgewater A&E (was at Stockland Lovell) and instead took the horse back to the yard, unpacked and cleaned out the trailer, then went to Gloucester A&E at about 8pm that evening for 13 stitches

 

[PapaFrita]

Get back on. Then get off and refuse to get on that/those particular horse(s) again. After being bucked off the 4th of my YOs horses (FTR I didn't get bucked off at least as many times as I did), I told him very nicely that I was very sorry but I didn't want to ride them any more.
Life is too short, I'm too easily broken and I've got my own horses to ride that don't try to bury me.