Ali Ahmed.

[morty]

Talking about when he did his ACL. I did mine twice, it doesn't tickle lol.

Although surgical procedures get better and better, players don't always come back as the same player they were.

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[isbadiz]

I was sat at the other end of the pitch in the corner infill between River and City Stands. As soon as he did it I heard the scream from all that distance and I leaned over to my uncle and said I think he's done his ACL. You knew straight away he was probably going to be out a while.

 

[Ricardo]

Not nice to witness serious injuries. I well remember when Phil Mulryne broke his leg in front of me down at the River End. Horrible to watch. Also back in my playing days I recall something similar. None of us wanted to play on after that but I think we did although it did become very much like a non contact game.

 

[Lazza]

My achilles snapped while playing 5-a-side. At the time, I was just standing on my own. I thought someone had kicked me in the back of the leg - I swore loudly, and turned - and there was nobody there! It was onl when I tried to step forward I realised what had happened. Everyone else all stopped when it went as they all heard the loud snap (and my shout).
Of course I had driven there, and I couldn't drive home, so someone had to drive me home in my own car, with someone following to give them a lift back. I then had dinner before heading to the hospital as, while I knew it meant I would probably need an operation, I knew it meant I was in for a long wait at the hospital!

 

[morty]

My achilles snapped while playing 5-a-side. At the time, I was just standing on my own. I thought someone had kicked me in the back of the leg - I swore loudly, and turned - and there was nobody there! It was onl when I tried to step forward I realised what had happened. Everyone else all stopped when it went as they all heard the loud snap (and my shout).
Of course I had driven there, and I couldn't drive home, so someone had to drive me home in my own car, with someone following to give them a lift back. I then had dinner before heading to the hospital as, while I knew it meant I would probably need an operation, I knew it meant I was in for a long wait at the hospital!

That is a horrible, horrible injury.

I tore my ACL in my left knee, the first time, when playing football on a dusty pitch while working in Kuwait. I went in for a tackle and clashed knees with a player, and there was a massive crack, people on the sidelines thought I had broken my leg. After attempts at rehab (You can actually do without your ACL if you build up the quad and hammy enough) the surgeon replaced my ACL using a third of my hamstring. Turns out he made an absolute arse of it as a year later I was playing volleyball and jumped at the net to block a shot, and landed and crumpled. I went into Peterborough hospital to have it reconstructed again, woke up from the anaesthetic with the knee feeling great, and an incredible pain in my hip. They use steel screws to screw the donor ligament into your leg bones and when they got in there the holes had become enlarged, and would take a screw, so they took out two bone plugs from my hip, plugged the holes, then sent me home for 4 months while they grafted in. After that they reconstructed again using a patellar tendon graft this time, and that has been fine since 2005.

I won't tell you about my other knee lol...

 

[isbadiz]

Never torn a ligament. However they have become stretched in my shoulder after dislocating it 5 times. After doing it the 3rd time the consultant suggested surgery, which seemed a good idea at the time as it kept happening. Now if it pops out I am unable to relocate it myself as I could before surgery and it's a trip to A and E. The worst time was the 4th dislocation. It popped out and the joint got stuck between my rib cage and scapula. After 3 hours of looking like I was attending a Nuremberg rally, it took 4 doctors and something called super-morphine (which I have since learned was probably fentanyl) to relocate it. Good times.

The consultant has said if it happens again they can graft a piece of my hip on to it to try and stabalise it. However the thought does not appeal as I already have sciatica.

 

[morty]

Never torn a ligament. However they have become stretched in my shoulder after dislocating it 5 times. After doing it the 3rd time the consultant suggested surgery, which seemed a good idea at the time as it kept happening. Now if it pops out I am unable to relocate it myself as I could before surgery and it's a trip to A and E. The worst time was the 4th dislocation. It popped out and the joint got stuck between my rib cage and scapula. After 3 hours of looking like I was attending a Nuremberg rally, it took 4 doctors and something called super-morphine (which I have since learned was probably fentanyl) to relocate it. Good times.

The consultant has said if it happens again they can graft a piece of my hip on to it to try and stabalise it. However the thought does not appeal as I already have sciatica.

I winced reading that

 

[AmericanCanary]

I tore my ACL playing football(American football mind haha) when I was at Ohio University. Unfortunately, it was during my freshman season and I never really got back to the levels I was at before which still upsets me. However, OU honored my scholarship and I will be forever grateful to them and forever proud to be an alumni.

 

[Ricardo]

The silly things we do when we are young and enjoying sport. I used to play in goal and recall playing on after I broke a finger in the warm up. Wrapped some tape round it and on we go and never thought much of it. Many decades later I have three bent fingers on one hand and two on the other plus the inevitable arthritis.

I also got clattered more than a few times by big centre forwards and now have back problems to show for it.

My mother said I would pay for it in later life and as in many things she was proved right. Mind you, it was great fun at the time.

 

[morty]

Just from the evidence of this thread, basically, sport is bad for you.

 

[Fenway Frank]

I'm very fortunate as the worst thing that's happened to me is a nosebleed

I play walking football every week and absolutely love it. It's not just the football though, we do social stuff together which is great

 

[morty]

I'm very fortunate as the worst thing that's happened to me is a nosebleed

I play walking football every week and absolutely love it. It's not just the football though, we do social stuff together which is great

Yep, tried walking football and managed to biff my "good" knee.

I have officially retired from football

 

[isbadiz]

The silly things we do when we are young and enjoying sport. I used to play in goal and recall playing on after I broke a finger in the warm up. Wrapped some tape round it and on we go and never thought much of it. Many decades later I have three bent fingers on one hand and two on the other plus the inevitable arthritis.

I also got clattered more than a few times by big centre forwards and now have back problems to show for it.

My mother said I would pay for it in later life and as in many things she was proved right. Mind you, it was great fun at the time.

I am rapidly learning that getting old is not for the weak.

 

[AmericanCanary]

I am rapidly learning that getting old is not for the weak.

I will be 40 here in a couple of weeks and though wouldn't say am dreading it persay, not going to exactly celebrate it either. At this point in my life I have accomplished some things that I wanted too but also a lot I have not!

 

[Lazza]

I tore my ACL in my left knee...

During lockdown, I was doing exercises in the local park, including shuttle-sprints. I had to stop as both knees were hurting. It got bad enough that I had to use sticks for a few months. I had them assessed and it seems both the tendons in both knees are still there, but both stretched, allowing the knee to "wobble" a bit too much in the joint, which is what was causing the pain. No doubt caused by years of playing football as a left-back and putting in tackles on guys much bigger that me - I was tall but a skinny lad. All good now as I have spent a lot of time building the muscles in my legs to compensate.

Never torn a ligament. However they have become stretched in my shoulder after dislocating it 5 times.

My manager a few years back was a rugby player, and he had the same. He regularly popped his shoulder out and had to pop it back in, sometimes doing fairly innocuous things at work. I know he was lined up for an op, but i left before he had it so no idea how it went.

I used to play in goal and recall playing on after I broke a finger in the warm up. Wrapped some tape round it and on we go and never thought much of it

I was goalkeeper for our school team (Hewitt). In one match, I dived for the ball (I'm told I saved it) and head-butted the post, knocking myself clean out. They just leaned me against the post and played on of course - it was around 1980 after all. As I was starting to wake up, someone took a shot which hit me on the head, smacking my head against the post again, and that was it for me for the rest of the match
The PE teacher (Mr Wren) carried me back to the changing rooms after the match and put me in the shower to wake me up, then I was sent to walk the 4 miles home

I will be 40 here in a couple of weeks and though wouldn't say am dreading it persay, not going to exactly celebrate it either. At this point in my life I have accomplished some things that I wanted too but also a lot I have not!

40 is nothing. I'm 59 and I still go to the gym 3 to 5 times a week, still run, cycle, paddle-board. I take it a bit easier now, but last night I ran 8k in 45 minutes on a running machine. I have no plans to give it up for a while yet! In fact I'm looking for a local veterans football team - though I'm not sure my knees would appreciate it!

 

[morty]

I have to say, that is some pretty impressive multi quoting

 

[Lazza]

I have to say, that is some pretty impressive multi quoting

I thought I'd give it a try

 

[Ricardo]

Its certainly true that when you are young its amazing the injuries that you just brush off. Now in my ninth decade I can trace lots of my aches and pains back to some of those moments.

Lots of things are beginning to fall apart but the good news is I can still ride my bike.

Without that I would never be able to get to CR.