all of you sports players must have some. so lets share and wallow in our sports-injury-miseries together..and share any ways to help sports injuries. (don't say rest)

i play badminton and volleyball for school and over the years, i've gotten tennis elbow, jammed fingers, a pulled tendon on the back of my knee, shin splints, possibly tedinitis(sp?) in my shoulder and a messed up back.

usually, i either just ice my injuries or go to a physical therapist..but lately, it's not really working. so what are your methods of getting over your sports injuries?

i've always played sports and never gotten anything broken, twisted, fractured, rolled, jammed or sprained.

hmm, well i run, and i sometimes get shin splints. i usually ice them

I played volleyball forever, so I've had anything and everything related injuries...sprained ankle and fingers, knee injuries (meniscus and ligament), and shoulder injuries (bursitis and tendinitis), back injuries...

Best way to recover is rest , but if it's impossible to do so then ice and heat is the best to relax the muscles around the joints. If you play competitively, then always put ice on sore joints after every practice and games. Strenghtening the muscles around the joints will help with support and prevent further injuries later on.

I tried using those ankle braces before, but I think they tend to weaken your ankle even more... Coach told me once that it's because the ankle is depending on the brace for support, which eliminates the need to strengthen it on its own...

Once I ripped my knee and the side of my calf open in softball.
Someone was running to first and I was reaching for the ball.. it was pretty obvious I was going to catch it, and the runner knocked me off.
I still caught it, though. :D
She was out. >:]

Yeah, but I fell and basically ripped my knee and the side of my calf open on the gravel.
Hurt like hell.
That stuff hurts more than you think.

I hope I don't pull anything in track.

ouch, that sounds really bad.


well, i've iced and heated my injuries before...and it doesnt really work for me :\

In gymnastics last year, I got lots of shin splints, but the worst injury was spraining my ankle. I was jumping off the beam, and my ankle went sideways on the mats below. I couldnt compete until the end of the year.

well, i swim, play tennis..yeah i remember 8th grade when i was doing track, i sprained my ankle for hte first time...i just iced it

but after 5 more times in tennis, it didnt really work...sooo i got an ankle protector. same with my wrist. (i sprained that in tennis season too!)

i swim in the summer and i dont swim in the year at HS and stuff so im rusty when i go back in the pool in may or whenever we go back and i usually get alot of battle scars getting out of the pool. lol.. and when there's like 2 or 3 of us swimming in the same lane, we usually hit each other at time or another.

Ummm, someone's scratched me before in basketball... it started bleeding..

and some other kid I knew got like, a black eye cause someone elbowed him in basketball...

And I've gotten hit in the knee with a softball... hurts like HELL. I had a bruise for like, a week, it was so big.

i also gotten bruises paintballing... got some on my thighs and shoulders.. around the shoulder blade and collar bone....

my friend got massacred bad one day.... his whole back was covered with paintball shots... the paint went through like 2-3 shirts he was wearing... there were so huge and we laughed so hard.. i think he still has them and it happened like 3 weeks ago.

I f'ed up my nose high jumping.
5'4 kid jumping over 5'6.
It's weird because, any other given time my knee would never could reach my nose.

- Solipsist

playing football broke pinky and ring finger....umm for softball way too many injuries to mention

My knees started hurting a lot from running too much. All I could do was ice it and not run on it.

i never got hurt playing an actual sport but i ripped open my knee when i was playing tag!

if you got all those injuries playing for SCHOOL volleyball, you must be hardcore. the worst i've ever gotten in volleyball is probably a few jammed fingers on my right hand.

I twisted my ankle playing bball, I got fouled hard, landed on my right ankle alone all funky which caused my injury.

After that I immediately started playing again but I was shoved from behind and I stuck my palms out, injuring both my wrist. Damn, it was hard to eat.

Sometime last year before I joined bball, I was playing softball for PE, batter hits that ball smack dab right in the nuts!

I play on my school's tennis team & one day at practice, I totally wiped out on the ground & skinned my thigh. Could barely sit on anything anywhere.

ive hurt my ankles and knees doing wushu...it really sucks when you land wrong after doing jumps. ive knicked my arms with my sword a few times too. good thing taht hasnt happened in a long time.

i play football and ive broken my collarbone twice, torn my ACL twice along with my MCL, PCL, LCL, knee cartilage and meniscus, and ive torn several tendons in my foot. i had two knee surgeries and went to physical therapy for two years and now im doin great. i got hurt a lot in a short amount of time but hey, i love football and i couldnt just quit playing.

I never broke anything or twisted anything.
I did get hurt f**king badly tho with many sports but especcially beachvolleyball.
I had the ball millions of times hit against my boobs and I can tell you, I hurts so much u wish u were never a girl.

never had an injury playing sports. The closest thing i can think of is getting poked in the eye while playing basketball at PE.

My only injury was a finger jam. Im not very athletic and dont play sports.

since i'm very flexible, i'm able to massage and rattle my fingers to get use to the pain.

8 years swim, 1 year basketball, 3 years tennis =

sprained fingers, three twisted ankles, tennis wrist :T

sprained my ankle once from track
had a big bruise on my nose, pulled a muscle from soccer

i just ice them

my kids died 3x last season in soccer

mostly broken nails and bruses.
but i have sprained by leg/ankle/arm many, many times playing baseball and tennis. mostly arm with pitching. but i'm not sure if it's possible to sprain your arm... maybe it was something else. whatever.

for the most part shin splits ALL THE TIME because of tumbling..i never broken anything from cheerleading usually pretty bad bruises like the one on my foot right now and sprains

I broke my foot playing kickball, does that count?

I also got this HUGE bruise on my calf from this guy who threw a discus at me.

Mine could be counted as a sport injury.
It was during my soccer season last year and I was skating in my front yard on our litle ramps in sandles and fell on my foot in half and tore a ligament(sp?).
I couldn't walk for a week and after that had to take it easy on the field, but my coach watchout for me. ^__^

-Aubrey

I dont even know how many times I've twisted/sprained my ankle. I dont think I want to.

I manage to dislocate my knee at least 3 times a year and I've torn my hamstrings twice.

used to play baseball and i got smacked in the face with a ball once...i had a bloody nose but it wasnt too bad...i quit cuz i started throwing sidearm and we all know how that fucks up ur arm

i swim now and i jammed my finger once during practice but thats about it...

I broke almost every finger on both hands playing football
Jammed all fingers like 500 times from basketball
Got this growth problem in my knees from catching in baseball