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[Bike N Gear]

Jesus dude. I missed the post where you told us how you f'ed yourself up? I hope I'm wrong, but with fractured patella, you can't bend the knee until the fracture calcifies. That means you're in a full immobilizer for a few weeks. 😟

Didn't your mother ever teach you not to say anything if you have nothing nice to say?

 

[iman29]

We should change this thread to: Reasons why everyone should wear knee pads.

yup I agree - still consider myself lucky after my crash 2 years ago where I had a minor fracture of patella and the top of my tibia and I WAS wearing knee pads. spent a week non weight bearing/crutches in the immobilizer, then 2 weeks no crutches with the immobilizer, but I was allowed to take it off at night. I was back on the trainer after about 3.5 weeks for self PT and back on the road 4 weeks later.

Im sure its somewhere in this thread but long story short, the doc said if I had that damage and I had the knee pads on, he was 100% sure I would have shattered my knee on whatever I crashed on - which was probably a rock.

 

[SmooveP]

Yikes! Reminds me of when I caught a pedal to my left shin during a high-speed crash in mud at Mt Snow back in 2000. The result was 30 min of scrubbing by the nurse at the mtn care center and 14 stitches along with a bottle of antibiotics with the warning, "I'm pretty sure I got all of the mud out, but it's hard to know for sure, so take these for a week."

While I was in the care center Pro practice had started and before I left I was joined by Steve Peat (separated shoulder, I think) and a very young Mick Hannah (broken collarbone).

I think I witnessed that Steve Peat crash. IIRC, it happened above the rock garden where most of the spectators hang out. Not a particularly gnarly section. We were close enough to hear the sickening sound of him hitting a tree and my buddy and I were the ones that got him situated and retrieved his bike.

 

[SmooveP]

Posted the "how" over in the Lifetime Injuries" thread. Here's the inside and outside of the fractured patella. No fun photos of the rotator cuff.

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Ouch. I'm immune to patella fractures. I smashed both of them to smithereens in a motorcycle crash when I was 20 and they removed them. Turns out you don't really need them.

 

[stb222]

Wow, I had a very similar injury from a few year ago. This was at nica practice riding stuff that would not be nica approved. The kids got a good in person first aid session. It could have used stitches that i didnt get and there is a feel-able divot. I definitely dogged a bullet on this one.
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Better view

 

[SmooveP]

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Better view

That doesn't look "better".

 

[a.s.]

Didn't your mother ever teach you not to say anything if you have nothing nice to say?

My bad. Don't worry, you'll be back on the trails in no time!