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Chris
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I guess this thread is childish in a few respects, but out of sheer curiosity, what is the worst injury you have sustained in your lifetime? Lol.
For me, it'd have to be when i tore the muscles in my left shoulder.
I used to go to the gym a lot (4+ times per week), I might have been slightly obsessed, but one of the exercises in one of my routines was bench press. At peak (one rep max), i could bench 85kg (Pretty good considering i only weighed 64kg at the time). One evening after work with a friend, i was at the gym working through my routine, until my second set of bench presses, when half way through the set on the way back up to complete the repetition, it felt like a warm knife sliced through my left shoulder and it collapsed. It was absolutely excruciating. I shouted and my friend that was spotting me tried to lift the bar off me but it was too heavy for him, so i was lying there trying to lift the f**king thing off myself with a busted shoulder. Not fun. I got the right side back up by myself, then another guy finally came over to help with the other side. The extra time the weight was on my shoulder did a lot of damage. I suffered from shock for about 15 minutes (i suffer from shock fairly often :/ ), i went a ghostly white and i can't remember well, but i think i went unconscious for a few seconds right after it was over.
After a trip to A&E they said it was just muscle damage in my chest and shoulder and I was told i'd be back to normal after about two months... Two months later, it's nowhere near better, so i go back to my GP and he arranges some physiotherapy sessions for me. I attended these for 2 months~ with no result, it didn't help at all. The only thing i gained from that is the physiotherapist suspecting there is infact tendon damage rather than muscle damage, which takes considerably longer to heal due to the lack of blood that goes to tendons in comparrison to muscles. So here I am, 7 months down the line and it's still a great discomfort. I started swimming again recently and that seems to be helping it though, so i'll keep that up for the time being.
Lets hear your stories then.
For me, it'd have to be when i tore the muscles in my left shoulder.
I used to go to the gym a lot (4+ times per week), I might have been slightly obsessed, but one of the exercises in one of my routines was bench press. At peak (one rep max), i could bench 85kg (Pretty good considering i only weighed 64kg at the time). One evening after work with a friend, i was at the gym working through my routine, until my second set of bench presses, when half way through the set on the way back up to complete the repetition, it felt like a warm knife sliced through my left shoulder and it collapsed. It was absolutely excruciating. I shouted and my friend that was spotting me tried to lift the bar off me but it was too heavy for him, so i was lying there trying to lift the f**king thing off myself with a busted shoulder. Not fun. I got the right side back up by myself, then another guy finally came over to help with the other side. The extra time the weight was on my shoulder did a lot of damage. I suffered from shock for about 15 minutes (i suffer from shock fairly often :/ ), i went a ghostly white and i can't remember well, but i think i went unconscious for a few seconds right after it was over.
After a trip to A&E they said it was just muscle damage in my chest and shoulder and I was told i'd be back to normal after about two months... Two months later, it's nowhere near better, so i go back to my GP and he arranges some physiotherapy sessions for me. I attended these for 2 months~ with no result, it didn't help at all. The only thing i gained from that is the physiotherapist suspecting there is infact tendon damage rather than muscle damage, which takes considerably longer to heal due to the lack of blood that goes to tendons in comparrison to muscles. So here I am, 7 months down the line and it's still a great discomfort. I started swimming again recently and that seems to be helping it though, so i'll keep that up for the time being.
Lets hear your stories then.
