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Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:47 am

Surgical steel that is...

I broke my Tibia/Fibula back in 2001 at the skatepark.
They installed a steel rod inside my tibia (shin bone) running down the length of the bone and held in with 3 screws.

So, anybody else got any metal stories?
Any plates in the head, etc.?

Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:08 am

Summer Skating 2000 - Compound fracture of right radius/ulna = 12 screws/two plates

Summer Skating 2001 - Compound fracture of left radius/ulna, dislocated elbow, dislocated shoulder = 12 screws/two plates

Summer Skating 2002 - Partial Oblique fracture of left radius/ulna

Never stepped on a skateboard again. Still miss it every day, but too much pain. Fun to watch the punk kids do it though.... Damn kids, ruining my park benches.

p.s. With the last fracture, my left arm curves an extra couple degrees inward

Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:20 am

Forgot to mention that when I broke it I simultaneously dislocated both shoulders at the same time... :shock:

Yeah, I haven't stepped back on a board since that day.
My son just turned 3 and there is a new concrete public skatepark being built outside of downtown houston.
Soooo, maybe I'll have to go buy another one.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:16 am

Horse riding "incident" some years back. Right heel has 11 screws, a bone graft and a plate, all in the heel bone not much bigger than a golf ball.
Shit still hurts on cold mornings.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:29 am

I bet it does...

That's the worst part about a broken bone; the after pain.
I started taking high doses of fish oil about a year ago and the pain has gone away for the most part.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:35 am

I MUST have metal...there's rust in my underwear.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:38 am

Mr. Electric Wizard wrote: I bet it does...

That's the worst part about a broken bone; the after pain.
I started taking high doses of fish oil about a year ago and the pain has gone away for the most part.

the wet weather pain?

Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:43 am

wet/cold.
Yup.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:09 am

I luckily have Metal, but broke my tib/fib in a spiral fracture skiing two years ago.

Broke my thumb/wrist playing dodgeball 3 years ago.

Broke all five bones in my foot street luging 3 years ago.

Dislocated my shoulder doing a hand-plant on my skis out of a half pipe, hurt a ton, my arm went weak I dropped onto my collarbone and broke it. Last year

Last year I hit a guardrail on my bike doing about 30km/h resulted in a broken patella, a deep black tissue bruise across 80% of my back, and a chipped hip. Last year.

Numerous concussion from biking/skiing/golfing (was in a golf cart rollover)

I am going to hurt when I get old. But I love being 17 and not feeling it yet.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:59 am

shouldn't this thread be in this thread?..
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=285238

:lol:

Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:32 am

bonfire wrote: I luckily have Metal, but broke my tib/fib in a spiral fracture skiing two years ago.

Broke my thumb/wrist playing dodgeball 3 years ago.

Broke all five bones in my foot street luging 3 years ago.

Dislocated my shoulder doing a hand-plant on my skis out of a half pipe, hurt a ton, my arm went weak I dropped onto my collarbone and broke it. Last year

Last year I hit a guardrail on my bike doing about 30km/h resulted in a broken patella, a deep black tissue bruise across 80% of my back, and a chipped hip. Last year.

Numerous concussion from biking/skiing/golfing (was in a golf cart rollover)

I am going to hurt when I get old. But I love being 17 and not feeling it yet.

Damn man!
You one crazy son-of-a-bitch!

Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:51 am

Two large staples holding down my lateral collateral ligament & my biceps femoris tendon in my left knee. Soccer injury. Two crews holding my ACL graft right knee. Work injury.

My wife has something REALLY cool & new. Artificial disc in her lower back L5/S1. It's been nearly two yrs. So far it's working great and her pain is GONE.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:17 am

localboy wrote: Two large staples holding down my lateral collateral ligament & my biceps femoris tendon in my left knee. Soccer injury. Two crews holding my ACL graft right knee. Work injury.

My wife has something REALLY cool & new. Artificial disc in her lower back L5/S1. It's been nearly two yrs. So far it's working great and her pain is GONE.
NICE!! I have one disc that is having issues, so I love to hear that the technology is progressing. For a long time back surgery has been considered a last resort.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:03 pm

typesoneandtwo wrote: localboy wrote: Two large staples holding down my lateral collateral ligament & my biceps femoris tendon in my left knee. Soccer injury. Two crews holding my ACL graft right knee. Work injury.

My wife has something REALLY cool & new. Artificial disc in her lower back L5/S1. It's been nearly two yrs. So far it's working great and her pain is GONE.
NICE!! I have one disc that is having issues, so I love to hear that the technology is progressing. For a long time back surgery has been considered a last resort.

She suffered for many yrs and tried everything else w/ no permanent solution. She finally got referred to a surgeon participating in an FDA study and was a perfect candidate. Got the implant in June 2006 and is now in RN school and 100% pain free! It truly was a life-altering decision and she is so happy to have made the decision.

http://www.spinalmotion.com/

Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:44 pm

My grandfather got 2 possibly three discs removed, the replaced them with Coral. Apparently the bone grows through the Coral. He went from laying in his bed unable to move in extreme pain to play golf everyday in the course of 2 months.

I am not that crazy, I have just had some bad luck. IE, on the street luge one of the front wheels fell off, therefor I was unable to make the left turn and could only go right- into a tree. The hitting a guard rail was due to my chain snapping on my fixie and it being a fixie you have no brakes.

I look at it like this, I haven't really broke any big bones yet...

A friend of mine compound fractured both arms and broke both wrists at the same time 4 seasons ago snowboarding. He has plates in both humerus', and a plate in Cranium, he was even wearing a helmet and he still fractured his skull, thats how hard he hit.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:53 pm

When I was 19 I was ejected through the windshield of a Dodge Ramcharger as it rolled off a cliff. It then crushed me between the truck and the ground as it rolled 200' down the embankment.
The funny part is I only broke my right femur directly inside my knee. Busted off about 1-1/2" of the bone inside and luckily the surgeon was able to pin it together. If he couldn't it would have been almost a year in a waist-to-toe cast.
I ended up with a pin in the hip, pin in the knee, and an 18" long rod the length of my femur. And constant pain ever since....

BTW, I still have one pin and the rod, I asked to keep it when they removed them!!!

Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:57 pm

Mr. Electric Wizard wrote: Soooo, maybe I'll have to go buy another one.

I just bought an old school deck and am waiting for the trucks/wheels. Now that my mind is back in that direction, its all I can think about. So be careful. The rush comes flooding back like it was yesterday since you have been on a board - and for me it is probably almost 20 years.

I hope not to have an injury to report back to this thread now that I have probably jinxed myself.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:03 pm

damitboy wrote: Horse riding "incident" some years back. Right heel has 11 screws, a bone graft and a plate, all in the heel bone not much bigger than a golf ball.
Shit still hurts on cold mornings.

you essentially have a metal heel at this point. :) thinking of breaking my heel makes me writhe in my seat.

Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:00 pm

Live Fast, Die Young. Life is cheap. Etc.
I'm 51 and think I'm still bulletproof and tougher than the Devil himself. But all it took was one slip on some ice 3 weeks ago to screw up my knee and I dont have health insurance presently. So I just "Walked it off".
I still have my "Murray" wooden skateboard with clay composite wheels, and fixed trucks, from 1966 and I loved riding that thing!
I dig where Skating has become to, and wish I could do that, but in your case, you are going to be feeling those aches and pains later on in your life, bro. Buy some stock in Advil or Opiates. Seriously, I wish you Luck, man!

Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:09 am

A titanium plate fusing C5-6-7 together, my neck was to the point that a hard hit could have paralyzed me, like Christopher Reeves!

Has any one had problems going thru Airports with any Body Metal, we get to fly in June, the first time since I had this surgery?