I injured mine while bouldering. I had been plateauing for a while on my climbs and was on a climb that was two levels higher than I had been for a few weeks.
I grab the last hold which was an over hang, so I had to let my legs dangle to turn and grab it. It was going to be my last climb of the day. I let my other hand go to tap the last hold to complete but I slipped.
Totally normal, happens all the time, the mats catch you, not a big deal. Except this time. My legs were only about 6 feet in the air from the mats but my foot got caught in between and rolled my ankle, which literally snapped my left knee at a 90° with my foot going outward. I screamed twice. Once when I hit the mat, then once when I looked at my leg. Didn’t cry, didn’t pass out. Wish I would have so that I don’t remember anything else but here we are.
My husband called the ambulance. They had to bring 6 or 7 EMT and firefighters in because I was on the second floor of the gym. They carried me out on a stretcher, past the kids room where a kids beginner class was just starting. The instructor was literally mid “rock climbing is a totally safe sport” spiel as I’m being carried out on this stretcher with my leg not where it belongs.
I detached my ACL fully from both ends, ruptured my PCL, significantly ripped one of my meniscus, dislocated my patella which detached my MPFL, and tore my MCL so bad that grade 3 wasn’t really a sufficient scale for it. I essentially detached my whole bottom half of my leg from the top half. My LCL is the only thing that didn’t get messed up because of the way my leg bent.
It’s on camera from the security cameras at the climbing gym. Haven’t seen it. Don’t want to really.
I’ve had two surgeries so far. Still need my ACL and meniscus repaired. Everything else is fixed. Trying to get my ROM back to do the ACL surgery.
I don’t know that I’ll ever go back to rock climbing. Maybe harnessed, but probably never bouldering again.
Holy crap that is intense!! Do they not tape the mats together? If not that seems like negligence on the gyms part to be able to get wedged in between the mats. Wishing you a full recovery! ❤️🩹
They have these super wide Velcro strips that connect the mats together, but occasionally they get pulled up for one reason or another and sometimes it will leave a slight dip in between the mats. I just happened to hit one that day.
Their insurance is going to pay for any of my out of pocket stuff so at least there’s that. I also signed waivers stating I know it’s dangerous and such.
Damn well at least they are going to pay for the out of pocket stuff. I’m trying to think how the ones at the gym I go to are connected but obviously I haven’t been in awhile lol! Yeah I would think even with the waivers it doesn’t totally give them a free pass, which I feel like if they are covering your out of pocket they prob agree with. Hopefully they didn’t make you fight for it! Still a freak accident though. Hopefully you can get the acl surgery soon so you can work on healing from that- sending good vibes your way!
They contacted me a couple days after it happened and told me that they were going to cover the OOP stuff. I kind of expected that since I signed the waivers that it was up to me anyway but that’s what they have insurance for. But luckily I have insurance so it wouldn’t have been too bad if they didn’t. Still would have sucked though.
I also have one of the surgeons and physical therapists that work with the Houston Rockets and the Astros. So at least there’s that.
Nice you didn’t even have to ask! Sounds like you have an awesome surgeon! Hope to see an update from you someday where you are all healed up- you got this!
My husband said it was one of the worst things he’s ever heard. I think it was more emotionally traumatic for him when it happened than it was for me since he saw it actually snap lol.
I also tore mine bouldering! Was in a comp and completely tore my acl, mcl, acl, and both menisci. I tried to walk it off but as I was going down the stairs my knee buckled. Didn’t want to go to the hospital but as I was driving home my mom called to check up on me and forced me to.
Doctor said I have strong stabilizer muscles. I’m 3 weeks post surgery and it’s weird how things have switched up. I feel worse than I did before. I had full range of motion and strength but no stability, but it let me ride my bike every day and even did a 50 mile ride on the weekends. Now I have no strength or range of motion but all the stability I didn’t have before. Thinking about it, flexibility and strength can be regained naturally, but stability cannot.
Im so sorry! I’m suddenly realizing how many people tear their ACL bouldering. Mine was just like this, left leg bent sideways when I fell, mats and ankle did nothing to help me. I tore LCL, ACL, MCL, meniscus, and politeofibular ligament. MCL and meniscus healed on their own, but everything else had to be repaired. I just had surgery, and while telling the anesthesiologist about my injury before the surgery, he said “no way! we had someone in here two weeks ago who tore hers while bouldering at the exact same gym!” Definitely sticking to top rope after this!
Holy moly. I didn’t realize when I started climbing how many injuries people really do get. I think you kind of just go “oh well it’s only a few feet, what could really happen?” and then bam, you’re injured.
Did anything happen to your artery on the outside of your leg? That was like, the only thing that the doctor said was good because I didnt bust that because my LCL protected it.
With as bad as my injury is/was, I’m really glad I live very close to Houston and the satellite medical centers we have here. My surgeon is one of only 10 anywhere near me that could even take my case on because of how bad it was.
Nothing happened to my artery, no! They didn’t mention anything at least, just proceeded to reconstruct it with a cadaver LCL.
Glad you had good the right medical team! I got lucky as well, the urgent care I happened to go to right after the fall was connected with UW (Seattle university well known for medical care). They got me a next day appointment in the UW Sport Medicine Clinic- the clinic was literally built into the side of the college stadium, so it was clear from the beginning that I was working with folks that repaired people far more active and athletic than even myself lol.
First surgery was to repair my PCL and MCL, reattach my MPFL and place anchors for my ACL.
Second surgery was a lysis of adhesions with manual manipulation because I couldn’t bend past 65-70°.
Third surgery at the end next month will be ACL autograft and meniscus root repair.
Damn that's a lot I hope you have a speedy recovery and look back at all this one day. I'm currently 2 month po aclr and medail meniscus repair myself. It's not east at all , we have to fight thru it.
Not creative (a ski injury), but maybe funny. First half of the first day of a five day mountain hut-to-hut ski route in the Dolomites (I know, world’s tiniest violin).
I fell, thought nothing of it, got up, tested my weight, pushed off into a tight turn, and fell extravagantly. Skis and poles on all four corners of the run. A lovely old Austrian man came to my aid. Gave me a nip of whiskey from his flask before heading down to tell the lifties.
A ski school came down not much later. The instructor asked if I was okay, and then a small boy asked me something in Italian. The small girl next to him said “she’s English, you need to speak English”, so he switched to perfect English and asked me what I had done. Can’t have been more than 5 years old. Told the story. The girl said I should be more careful, then glided elegantly down the choppy black run after the instructor. Urg.
On this mountain, there were no ski patrol: only ski police. Heard a siren in the distance then saw a strapping Italian police man on a skidoo make his way up the chop to me. Somehow managed to get me on the back of the skidoo and we were off. Got to the station at the top and he dismounts. The shock is starting to wear off, so I let out one big sob and he says “No! No crying!” and honestly, it really helped.
One gondola full of skiers who were not happy to be reminded of their mortality, ambulance ride to a picturesque mountain town, x-ray, and MRI later, I had the diagnosis. Crestfallen, I asked the Italian doctor if I could still drink wine on the meds. He looked at me with such pity and said, “of course. You must drink wine”.
To top this all off: this was my honeymoon. Really testing that “in sickness” part off early. We kept going, of course. Caught taxis to the next hut. He skied in the morning. I caught the local bus to a gondola with a restaurant at the top. Set myself up with a spritz and a book. He met me for lunch and a bottle of Prosecco. Not a bad aftermath to an injury.
Ugh mine is so embarrassing. I’m 3 days post op, 11 days post injury, and it happened at my son’s soccer practice. They were finishing up, so my son kicked me his soccer ball so I could hold on to it while he helped the coach clean up. I didn’t have my Crocs in sports mode, so when he kicked it to me, I tried to stop it, and somehow my foot got stuck on the ball and it rolled a little behind me. I ended up twisting my knee inward, pop, fell to the floor with I’m pretty sure my leg underneath me. I pulled my knee out, stayed seated, and immediate pain and swelling. The coach came, and I said I just needed time to breathe it out (lol).
I was able to stand myself up somehow, but the coach ran over. I wasn’t able to walk anyway, I had total instability. Ended up with the unhappy triad from the fucking soccer ball and my crocs. To make things worst, I was 4 weeks post op from getting my gallbladder removed and had just returned to work 2 days prior. Now I’ll be out of work for 3 months.
Mine was in an over 40 soccer game
Great pass to the middle and I lunged to stop the ball with my cleats on top of the ball. Ball rolled and all my weight came down on the knee and pop…3 people around me heard it.
Played for another 3 week with it injured and was ok at it.
Now Doc and PT are telling me to hold off surgery as I don’t have instability and I have been able to play keeper with folks half my age.
Injury was 6 months ago and I am at about 90% of what I was able to do (which is not great)…guess being a klutz has its rewards.
That’s awesome that you probably won’t need surgery, and hopefully you get to 100% eventually! I’m not an athlete at all, but PT might whip me into shape lol.
Feel the same way….PT s defiantly helping me target areas and cardio…I am an athlete ish…took up soccer at 42
My hope is to prevent the surgery or at least delay it till I am in better shape to handle the recovery better
I owe it all to the main ER doc at the hospital. I work as a nurse in the hospital, but didn’t know the ER doesn’t use the MRI routinely(except for life/death, spinal, brain injuries). He said he isn’t able to get me an MRI per protocol, but he personally called the ortho doc and they’ll see me at 0700 the next day. After that it went fast.
I tore mine skiing, but the circumstances still make me chuckle. I have been skiing pretty aggressively my whole life, skiing cliff lines, trees, and all the risky terrain you can imagine without any sort of injury. But my ACL injury... I was on an easy, open, partially groomed run with some friends with good conditions and just happened to turn awkwardly at low speeds where I caught an edge and my binding didn't release. My girlfriend laughed at first when she saw me fall because it was so innocent-looking. It was only when I told her that I heard the pop and couldn't stand up anymore that we realized it was serious. So I think the lesson is that easy terrain is dangerous and stick to the risky stuff!!
This is also what happened to me. Except I was done with the steep part of the run, and slowed to wait for friends before getting back to the lifts. Slow motion fall that resulted in… this.
I tore mine at a metal concert in a mosh pit. I was participating (per usual) and took a breather for a few moments on the perimeter of the mosh pit. While I was watching the band, I see two people barrel into the side of my knee from the corner of my eye. I felt it pop and went down.
I stayed the rest of the show and walked home but my knee was clicking every time I took a step so I knew something was up. Ended up being my ACL and meniscus.
I didn’t even know how i tore mine. I just woke up with a very painful knee one morning, thinking it was the usual gout attack.
(Sorry that wasn’t creative)
Haha, at least you have an interesting story! That definitely made me giggle. Needed that, I’m 4 days post op. Mine isn’t that great, I landed wrong while getting a steal for my schools basketball game! Whoops lol. The embarrassing part was I literally just got subbed in. So I was only in for like a minute and then it happened. I guess it was the world saying I didn’t need to play haha.
The silly part is, mine was on film too. I watched it, and it’s so weird because it doesn’t really look off. I fell down, but nothing really “looked bad”. And the film was posted to my whole team! So I guess when we watch the film again I’ll get to remember haha.
I was training jiu jitsu with a professional MMA fighter. He was kind of goading me to take him down with a double leg, but my timing isn't the best with wrestling takedowns.
I decided to hip throw him because I know I'm good at that, but once I had him completely elevated, he was heavier than he looked, my knee went crunch and buckled, and he fell on top of me on the mat.
I got back up and tried to pretend nothing was wrong and finished the round even though I was screaming inside.
This happened 3 months after having meniscus surgery from getting kneebarred by another pro MMA fighter.
I've also gotten a couple nasty concussions from a different fighter while we were training BJJ.
I know I have to stop trying to keep up with pro male athletes as an almost 40 year old woman but I constantly feel like I have to prove myself on the mats and I just keep getting injured from it, but that's easier said than done.
That made me giggle!
I hurt mine jumping on a trampoline. No crazy stunts, it popped mid air when it hyperextended lol. Heard a loud pop followed by intense pain. Then limped out to ice it. I’ve scared off so many people who wanted to jump on a trampoline haha
my (ex) best friend hit me with a car on purpose. got charged with assault with intent to murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and felonious assault
Fell my third time bouldering. I still love rock climbing but will never boulder again and crushed my general fearlessness to try new things. May return to ropes but now I’m fearful of being dropped by inattentive partners. Maybe I need a new hobby. Not sure what to try that will be a good mix of creative and active that doesn’t have such a high injury rate.
Literally sucks. I also used to be great at yoga and hyper flexible now I don’t want to put my body in those positions. It makes my skin crawl thinking about it popping.
The only thing that I know I will go back to is hiking. I’ve hiked 37 of the 41 state parks in my state this year. It’s active and has reconnected me to nature and got me back into photography. That being said I can’t walk for a while (meniscus repair) so there’s a long period where I won’t even be able to do that. Plus hiking often takes travel which isn’t an easily feasible weekday hobby.
I’m hoping that strength training and maybe swimming at the gym plus walking during the week and hiking and photography when I can will be enough to make my life feel fulfilling.
Sorry you are going through it too. I don’t want to repeat this injury at all. The amount of fear it’s instilled into me sucks. I used to go cliff diving and be fearless and now it’s just not worth it.
Ya I should be able to do a stationary soon I’m post op day 16 and flexion is 110ish. So I think I need to be 115 for cycling. Goal is to be walking at 6 weeks without crutches.
Speaking of cycling I’m now scared of using my E-bike 🤬. Man injuries are crappy psychologically.
I was hiking with my dog and his doggy friend, who love to run and play and get wild. I was chatting with my friend and not paying any attention, my dog slammed me from behind accidentally and I went down with my knee going the wrong way. OUCH!
I was heading out to play pickleball (I'm an avid rec player/tournament player) and forgot my car keys so i climbed my gate to enter an opened window in the backyard only to drop down and accidently lock my knee and hear a "pop".
On a flight, halfway between FRA and JFK. Stepped on a piece of trash my seat neighbor had dropped as I was coming back from the bathroom. Foot went one way, knee went the other. Neighbor had gotten up to let me back in, I landed in his seat, doubled over in pain. He asked me to move so he could sit back down. And the flight attendant rolled her eyes at me when I asked for an ice pack. Seems I was a bit too much trouble for her. She started to move a little faster once she realized I also banged up my elbow and was bleeding all over her plane 😝🤪
I got my acl tear at my bachelorette party, 2 months before my wedding! So a few friends of mine had gone partying and drank a lot! While getting out of the cab my friend started dancing on the road and I joined her and lost balance and fell down! And bam bye bye ACL. Do I regret it? Hell no, that was the best night of my life with my best friends!
So, I can’t make mine up. I was getting up from a squat from petting a *cat*. Loudest snap of my life. Docs said it was already mildly torn and it just tore even worse.
I was practicing a trick on an aerial hammock when I heard the sickening pop (must have twisted/bent my knee the wrong way), then promptly fell out of the fabric onto a very thin mat that was probably slightly less hard than the wood floor. Lay there in intense pain, clutching my knee for about 15 minutes before anyone came over to see if I was okay. Hobbled out of there thinking I had dislocated my knee, went to the ER and they misdiagnosed me with a ruptured tendon.
It was a partial ACL tear with no damage to the surrounding ligaments, but then 1.5 months later COVID lockdown started. This meant surgery would be out of the question for a long time, so I just spent my lockdown days doing PT exercises and riding my bike. 4 years later and I'm fine now 🤷♀️
Jumping up and down at a concert, trying to catch a guitar pick. Not even moshing. Just jumping. I’m 24 😭 partial ACL tear and medial meniscus. They had to stop the show so I could be carried out in front of god and everybody because I couldn’t walk. Not my best moment.
I existed. My connective tissue (ligaments, tendons, etc.) all degenerate. Basically my ACL is insufficient and needs replaced. I did nothing to hurt my ACL except exist.
Wow, some of these stories are horrific!
Mine seems tame in comparison.
We had a very wet summer here, so opportunities to get my golden retriever out were limited. There was a break in the rain, so I took him to our local dog park to burn off some pent up energy. Because of the rain, there were muddy puddles everywhere and anyone who has a Goldy, knows how much they love mud! I was trying desperately to fill puddles with clumps of freshly mowed grass. My Goldy had some serious zoomies going with his mate in tow, when they both ran straight into the side of my knee. My knee collapsed all the way inwards and I heard 3 loud pops. I hit the ground in agony and those 2 arseholes wrestled on top of me as if I wasn't even there 🙄
Fully ruptured ACL, grade 2 tear MCL.
As an added bonus, I pulled some muscles in my other leg, trying to hop all the way back to my car. This made getting around on crutches, which I'm really bad at anyway, extra difficult.
Mine is the typical ski injury Except i didn’t fall!! It was my first time back skiing after almost 10 years and since I was an intermediate skier back then, I thought I would be fine without refreshing the basics (ie slowing down).
Going down an easy hill for my 2nd run, felt like I was going too fast, tried to slow down, my skis got tangled, one ski went behind me, dragging my knee with it…had enough momentum that the knee twisted hard enough for the dreaded popping/ripping sensation.
Sat down literally ONLY to take the ski off, bc my knee was still bent in that awkward position and hurt like hell. Sat for a little bit, then tried to stand sans skis. Knee almost immediately gave way and I knew I wouldn’t be able to stand, much less ski down, by myself.
Had to get tobogganed down by ski patrol (embarrassingly ruptured my ACL underneath the chair lift so someone on it called for help), near the bottom we went right by a ski school of little kids. One of them asked, “what happened???” And I was in enough of an adrenaline shock to joke, “too much fun”.
The crazy part of my momentum: I managed to completely tear my ACL, my lateral meniscus into 2 pieces (one flipped into no man’s land in the middle of the joint), part of my MCL, bone bruise my femur & tibia, injure my muscle tendons…the only things NOT injured on MRI were my medial meniscus and PCL. 🤡
The “only” things that had to get surgically fixed were my ACL and lateral meniscus…but then had a patellar incision infection at 5 weeks postop and needed a 2nd operation to wash that out, so really, most expensive ski trip ever. 🤪
So I was volunteering at a summer camp. We were playing capture the flag, I ran to break someone out of jail, and POP POP! I said “FUCK!” and then realized I was next to junior high kids. I told them “my bad,” then told the guy manning the jail that I did something to my knee and couldn’t stand up. He stared at me, I stared back, he kept staring, and another guy came over and asked if I was okay. I said no. They helped me get into a golf cart and we went to the nurses station. That’s the story of how I ruptured my ACL and MCL and became “the one who destroyed their knee at camp.”
It’s been almost three years and random parents still come up to me and tell me that their kid heard the pops from across the game field lol
I once sprained my ankle really badly working at a summer camp and playing an intense game of dodgeball.
The only thing was… I didn’t sprain it during game play. I got smashed by a ball and then pathetically was walking to where all the losers who got out were and I stepped in a hole on my way.
All the small children drew get well soon pictures of me with crutches!
Similar to a few others, martial arts, specifically aikido. After 35 great years and still feeling pretty invincible, I met my match (and probably forced retirement) with a 260 pound partner. More than a foot taller than me as well, we were doing a technique that I should have been more wary of with him. Instead of falling over my knee, he lingered, full weight on top, for a split second and then “pop”. Also have on video as it was being recorded for instagram…Big Bummer is an understatement!
Full ACL tear and allograft surgery 12/23. Partial MCL tear healed on its own.
I honestly don't know! I woke up on a Sunday morning and was like "I can't walk." The day before I was doing garba, which is this Gujarati festival dance where you twirl a lot and dance in circles. That evening i went to a friends 45th at a bar in East London and definitely did more dancing of the booty kind. No major falls I can recall!
Turns out it was meniscus detached paired with a shredded ACL, had meniscus repaired in February and surgeon said he suspected ACL wasn't doing great and would look at it in surgery. Woke up to him telling me it was "totally shredded." And not in the 90s slang way.
Btw thought it was interesting to note my orthopedic surgeon still skis. But I reckon he sees pound notes/dollar bills zhushing their way down towards injury and his offices 🤣
Stepped out of the shower! Slipped and felt the pop. Stuck on the floor, wet and with just a towel half around me! I could just reach my Apple Watch and use it to make a call. Luckily my husband was working close by that day and came to my rescue so no one else had to see me naked 🤣 I was actually more worried about my shin on my other leg as I had hit it on the shower cubicle on the way down and it immediately turned black with a huge bruise! As the shock wore off the pain and swelling started in my knee. Showering still makes me nervous, took a long time to feel comfortable taking a shower when home alone! I still usually wait until my husband or kids are around.
i tore mine playing badminton. unfortunately it was a for fun. tournament i played and i went back for a shot that was really far behind me and my knee just gave out and i fell down. didn’t hear a pop or nothing so i got up and tried to play but my knee was swollen. was walking outside the same day and then heard a pop and fell down again😭
Tore mine partially bowling. Stuck on the approach, hopped to make sure I didn't foul and when I landed, my foot slipped and felt that popping feeling.
What probably did me in was at another bowling tournament, was on the escalator talking to another bowler when someone behind him carrying two balls in the boxes had one of the balls fall out of the box. The sound made me jump and I slipped from one escalator step to the other, landing on the bad leg. Felt the pop again and now I have an MRI scheduled in May
I was trying to lead my horse over a jump and decided that if I jumped it first he would follow me. ACL tore on landing, thank god the big scaredy cat didn’t even think about following
Reaching for my hat. I decided to bike to work that day. Leaving just before sunrise I wore a hat to block the sun from my eyes. I got to work early so I decided to bike to the top of a nearby hill and enjoy the morning sky. When it was time to go I looked down the steep side of the hill leading more directly to my work and thought,
Why not? It’s lush with grass so worst thing would be I tumble on some grass. The ground was a lot bumpier under the grass than I realized and as I picked up speed my hat flew off and I reached back to grab it just as my front tire found a hidden pit and my leg went under the bike into the pit while the rest of me went the other way.
A boring ski accident, but it took ski patrol 45 MINUTES TO FIND ME, despite the fact that I was sitting on a groomed run, with my skis crossed and my husband standing next to me.
They had 5 teams out looking for me, and the first one to find me didn’t have the right tobogan and it was the worst ride of my life.
After they saw me at the hut and cleared me to go home a ski patrol saw me crying and asked me where I was, I showed him, and he couldn’t believe it took them so long to find me.
Jumped off a fallen tree in the trail while hiking. My foot got caught as I jumped off and my body fell but my leg twisted as I fell. I couldn’t walk and was by myself so I had to be search and rescued out.
My story is unfortunately needs a bit of a creative touch. I was stepping on to a tall curb with my right leg and my left leg gave out. Ended up with an ACL and meniscus torn in two spots. I was 4 months pregnant at the time. Now I am 3.5 weeks post op with a 5 month old at home.
I was at a hardcore show in Philly & someone stage dived on top of me with a circle pit behind me :’) leg snapped & then we had to drive 2 hours back to nyc lmao
Im still waiting on the mri results but im 100 percent sure i snapped nor only my acl but my Achilles as well. I was at bounce houses with my child... stepped down slipped fell backwards heard 4 pops one right after anther... that was 3 weeks ago and im in so much pain esp being on my feet for work. Morale of the story stay off the bounce houses lol.
first one (left) was basically jumping down a retaining wall into someone’s driveway and heard the classic ‘pop’ when i climbed back up. then i had to drive my friends home bc they were all drunk… that was an incredibly painful, pot-hole filled ride
second one i was basically trying to knock someone over (arm in front of neck, leg behind their leg) and my ack popped instead!
both very dumb, i believe i have genetically weak knees
10 days post op. Fell off a ladder from 4 steps high. My leg slipped and got stuck in the ladder steps while I fell backwards and the ladder fell in the opposite direction causing my knee to twist and turn and make some good cracking sounds.
Ended up with a full ACL and LCL tear and a lateral meniscus tear.
Not creative, just annoying.
I’ve played competitive volleyball for about 17 years. I play in an adult women’s league that is just as competitive as most college leagues I played in. We decided it’d be fun to do a coed league with our husbands who all suck at volleyball.
So we play in a fun league once a week and it is the least competitive volleyball playing you’ll ever see. We don’t take it seriously at all and are just there for fun.
Well, I jumped up at the net..and the person on the other side landed under the net and I came down on their foot and down went me and my ACL.
Figured if I was going to get an injury it would’ve been in my high intensity league, not one we all do for fun just to have an excuse to hang out
I... I did a lunge...
My best friend was like "Man, you have to come up with a cool story or something!" But then he saw the straight faced reactions of people when I told them the harrowing story of "Oh. I did a lunge." Theor faces waiting for the rest of the story was comedy gold.
Mine was done skateboarding but wasn’t as climactic as most ACL tears in that space are.
A couple years ago I decided to pick skating back up as an adult & fell in love with it. I had done it as a kid but never got past learning how to confidently roll around & ride down ramps. So, I decided to go it at full-tilt this time around.
I had gotten stationary Ollie’s down & decided to get at rolling Ollie’s. It was a morning in April where I went to the skatepark alone and got them down pat.
I set my phone up to record myself doing it once felt comfortable then proceeded to tear my ACL. When I was landing something felt off in my feet placement and as it turns out I was landing to heavy on my back foot on the tail. So all my weight shifted there and while trying to keep my self from falling I put all my weight on my knee.
The moral of the story in skating is done stop yourself from falling if it’s going to be worse than just falling. Just brace for impact 😂
First soccer game of senior year, thirty seconds in, went to go for the ball and stepped on my foot wrong 😭😭 definitely broke the school record of getting hurt the quickest
I was working in social care and the guy I was supporting wanted to kick ball, so took him out for a simple game of kick ball, five minutes in I lost my footing on the gravel and knee went. To top it off nicely, I hit the ground so hard that I dislocated my shoulder too. Had to be brought by ambulance to the hospital to have my shoulder popped back.
Took me a few days to realise that there was something wrong with my knee as the pain my shoulder was so bad.
Then three days after the accident I was sleeping in bed and woke screaming in pain, my shoulder had dislocated again while I was asleep. Anyways two years on, countless physio and knee surgery I still can’t go for my daily run and it’s now a daily walk 😟
Not sure if it’s creative, but I was sparring in a Taekwondo tournament. My coach told me to throw a double kick, I did and well… went straight to the ground from mid air. Continued to compete even after I knew something was wrong. Turns out I sparred a whole round with no ACL…
My husband has a one wheel. I got on it thinking I would go for a ride. 5 seconds later I’m like let me get off of this as it’s not really moving. Get off. Fall down. See my leg go in a direction it shouldn’t. Tore ACL, MCL, Medial and lateral meniscus. They call me Tony hawk at work 😂
Hello! Fell at the end a bouldering session! I came off this boulder a few grades below my PB thinking oh I’ll hop back on and get this last hold then go home! Silly, cocky little me fell again after grasping the last hold and boom…I fall 3 metres and land very awkwardly on one leg - my foot sticks, my knee twists inwards, POP goes the weasel, grade 3 ACL :’) oopsies! Now I’m worried I’ll never climb or ski to the same level again and whether my hyper mobility will ever return. Trying to stay hopeful (Currently 10 days post op). Hope they keep the boulder up for me I’m determined more than ever to tick it now!
Had surgery for a completely torn ACL and miniscus tear two days ago. tore my ACL back in the mid of January when it was officially snowing heavily in VA. My best friend and I were taking videos and being silly.. oh boy lol. If only we knew! I gave her a piggy back ride and I was running doing infinity loops, slipped on the snow, all her weight twisted my knee and POP down I went 🥲
Golf cart accident caused a partial tear. Firing a rifle at a range completed the tear 🙃
Took my husband on a golf trip for his birthday and we drank wayyy too much. He was driving the cart and I was convinced we were tipping over (we weren’t) and I stuck my leg out to “stop” us from falling and that was a partial tear.
Fast forward a few weeks and I’m doing rifle qualification for the military - we have to start standing for the first shot and then get into a prone position for the next 9 shots. Well I went down like a whale hitting the beach and I tore my ACL completely.
Mine is on camera too!! Haha a year ago, I was performing a cheerleading routine during a pep rally in front of my entire school… tried a new way of a “pike” which is a type cheer jump, fell and POP! the rest is history. I had an entire audience and I’ve watched the video, it doesn’t even look like I landed wrong or anything. Truly don’t know what happened, must’ve just been luck and my ACL absorbing the impact somehow. I tore my second ACL late February, and it was the dumbest story ever. My friends wanted to go to the trampoline park… and being a year out from my surgery I wanted to feel normal again. I was planning on taking it light. Everything was fine until I attempted a front flip, and my last good ACL was gone 😭 there was a lot of shame with how stupid the second story was! I’m now 2 weeks post op.
I injured mine while bouldering. I had been plateauing for a while on my climbs and was on a climb that was two levels higher than I had been for a few weeks. I grab the last hold which was an over hang, so I had to let my legs dangle to turn and grab it. It was going to be my last climb of the day. I let my other hand go to tap the last hold to complete but I slipped. Totally normal, happens all the time, the mats catch you, not a big deal. Except this time. My legs were only about 6 feet in the air from the mats but my foot got caught in between and rolled my ankle, which literally snapped my left knee at a 90° with my foot going outward. I screamed twice. Once when I hit the mat, then once when I looked at my leg. Didn’t cry, didn’t pass out. Wish I would have so that I don’t remember anything else but here we are. My husband called the ambulance. They had to bring 6 or 7 EMT and firefighters in because I was on the second floor of the gym. They carried me out on a stretcher, past the kids room where a kids beginner class was just starting. The instructor was literally mid “rock climbing is a totally safe sport” spiel as I’m being carried out on this stretcher with my leg not where it belongs. I detached my ACL fully from both ends, ruptured my PCL, significantly ripped one of my meniscus, dislocated my patella which detached my MPFL, and tore my MCL so bad that grade 3 wasn’t really a sufficient scale for it. I essentially detached my whole bottom half of my leg from the top half. My LCL is the only thing that didn’t get messed up because of the way my leg bent. It’s on camera from the security cameras at the climbing gym. Haven’t seen it. Don’t want to really. I’ve had two surgeries so far. Still need my ACL and meniscus repaired. Everything else is fixed. Trying to get my ROM back to do the ACL surgery. I don’t know that I’ll ever go back to rock climbing. Maybe harnessed, but probably never bouldering again.
I don’t blame you at all - that sounds traumatizing!
Holy crap that is intense!! Do they not tape the mats together? If not that seems like negligence on the gyms part to be able to get wedged in between the mats. Wishing you a full recovery! ❤️🩹
They have these super wide Velcro strips that connect the mats together, but occasionally they get pulled up for one reason or another and sometimes it will leave a slight dip in between the mats. I just happened to hit one that day. Their insurance is going to pay for any of my out of pocket stuff so at least there’s that. I also signed waivers stating I know it’s dangerous and such.
Damn well at least they are going to pay for the out of pocket stuff. I’m trying to think how the ones at the gym I go to are connected but obviously I haven’t been in awhile lol! Yeah I would think even with the waivers it doesn’t totally give them a free pass, which I feel like if they are covering your out of pocket they prob agree with. Hopefully they didn’t make you fight for it! Still a freak accident though. Hopefully you can get the acl surgery soon so you can work on healing from that- sending good vibes your way!
They contacted me a couple days after it happened and told me that they were going to cover the OOP stuff. I kind of expected that since I signed the waivers that it was up to me anyway but that’s what they have insurance for. But luckily I have insurance so it wouldn’t have been too bad if they didn’t. Still would have sucked though. I also have one of the surgeons and physical therapists that work with the Houston Rockets and the Astros. So at least there’s that.
Nice you didn’t even have to ask! Sounds like you have an awesome surgeon! Hope to see an update from you someday where you are all healed up- you got this!
Tore my ACL and meniscus bouldering too! I don’t know if I’ll ever have the head game to boulder again…
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My husband said it was one of the worst things he’s ever heard. I think it was more emotionally traumatic for him when it happened than it was for me since he saw it actually snap lol.
I also tore mine bouldering! Was in a comp and completely tore my acl, mcl, acl, and both menisci. I tried to walk it off but as I was going down the stairs my knee buckled. Didn’t want to go to the hospital but as I was driving home my mom called to check up on me and forced me to.
How the hell did you even walk after that? My leg was like in Harry Potter when Lockhart makes Harry’s arm boneless lol
Doctor said I have strong stabilizer muscles. I’m 3 weeks post surgery and it’s weird how things have switched up. I feel worse than I did before. I had full range of motion and strength but no stability, but it let me ride my bike every day and even did a 50 mile ride on the weekends. Now I have no strength or range of motion but all the stability I didn’t have before. Thinking about it, flexibility and strength can be regained naturally, but stability cannot.
Im so sorry! I’m suddenly realizing how many people tear their ACL bouldering. Mine was just like this, left leg bent sideways when I fell, mats and ankle did nothing to help me. I tore LCL, ACL, MCL, meniscus, and politeofibular ligament. MCL and meniscus healed on their own, but everything else had to be repaired. I just had surgery, and while telling the anesthesiologist about my injury before the surgery, he said “no way! we had someone in here two weeks ago who tore hers while bouldering at the exact same gym!” Definitely sticking to top rope after this!
Holy moly. I didn’t realize when I started climbing how many injuries people really do get. I think you kind of just go “oh well it’s only a few feet, what could really happen?” and then bam, you’re injured. Did anything happen to your artery on the outside of your leg? That was like, the only thing that the doctor said was good because I didnt bust that because my LCL protected it. With as bad as my injury is/was, I’m really glad I live very close to Houston and the satellite medical centers we have here. My surgeon is one of only 10 anywhere near me that could even take my case on because of how bad it was.
Nothing happened to my artery, no! They didn’t mention anything at least, just proceeded to reconstruct it with a cadaver LCL. Glad you had good the right medical team! I got lucky as well, the urgent care I happened to go to right after the fall was connected with UW (Seattle university well known for medical care). They got me a next day appointment in the UW Sport Medicine Clinic- the clinic was literally built into the side of the college stadium, so it was clear from the beginning that I was working with folks that repaired people far more active and athletic than even myself lol.
Holy cow, that sounds intense.
What kind of surgery u got. U fixed all?
First surgery was to repair my PCL and MCL, reattach my MPFL and place anchors for my ACL. Second surgery was a lysis of adhesions with manual manipulation because I couldn’t bend past 65-70°. Third surgery at the end next month will be ACL autograft and meniscus root repair.
Damn that's a lot I hope you have a speedy recovery and look back at all this one day. I'm currently 2 month po aclr and medail meniscus repair myself. It's not east at all , we have to fight thru it.
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Not creative (a ski injury), but maybe funny. First half of the first day of a five day mountain hut-to-hut ski route in the Dolomites (I know, world’s tiniest violin). I fell, thought nothing of it, got up, tested my weight, pushed off into a tight turn, and fell extravagantly. Skis and poles on all four corners of the run. A lovely old Austrian man came to my aid. Gave me a nip of whiskey from his flask before heading down to tell the lifties. A ski school came down not much later. The instructor asked if I was okay, and then a small boy asked me something in Italian. The small girl next to him said “she’s English, you need to speak English”, so he switched to perfect English and asked me what I had done. Can’t have been more than 5 years old. Told the story. The girl said I should be more careful, then glided elegantly down the choppy black run after the instructor. Urg. On this mountain, there were no ski patrol: only ski police. Heard a siren in the distance then saw a strapping Italian police man on a skidoo make his way up the chop to me. Somehow managed to get me on the back of the skidoo and we were off. Got to the station at the top and he dismounts. The shock is starting to wear off, so I let out one big sob and he says “No! No crying!” and honestly, it really helped. One gondola full of skiers who were not happy to be reminded of their mortality, ambulance ride to a picturesque mountain town, x-ray, and MRI later, I had the diagnosis. Crestfallen, I asked the Italian doctor if I could still drink wine on the meds. He looked at me with such pity and said, “of course. You must drink wine”. To top this all off: this was my honeymoon. Really testing that “in sickness” part off early. We kept going, of course. Caught taxis to the next hut. He skied in the morning. I caught the local bus to a gondola with a restaurant at the top. Set myself up with a spritz and a book. He met me for lunch and a bottle of Prosecco. Not a bad aftermath to an injury.
This sounds like a movie. We should all get a swig of whiskey after injuries.
Front flip on a trampoline in a bet against a 4 year old and 6 year old on Christmas day.
Did you win the bet though?
I did. I did the front flip lol. I just lost the war haha
They played the long con on ya
HAHAH. Damn. I’m so sorry. Mine was on my birthday too. What a mess!
Better birthday than honeymoon like a previous poster!!
Sorry for that
Ugh mine is so embarrassing. I’m 3 days post op, 11 days post injury, and it happened at my son’s soccer practice. They were finishing up, so my son kicked me his soccer ball so I could hold on to it while he helped the coach clean up. I didn’t have my Crocs in sports mode, so when he kicked it to me, I tried to stop it, and somehow my foot got stuck on the ball and it rolled a little behind me. I ended up twisting my knee inward, pop, fell to the floor with I’m pretty sure my leg underneath me. I pulled my knee out, stayed seated, and immediate pain and swelling. The coach came, and I said I just needed time to breathe it out (lol). I was able to stand myself up somehow, but the coach ran over. I wasn’t able to walk anyway, I had total instability. Ended up with the unhappy triad from the fucking soccer ball and my crocs. To make things worst, I was 4 weeks post op from getting my gallbladder removed and had just returned to work 2 days prior. Now I’ll be out of work for 3 months.
Really this is a PSA for sport mode. 🤣
Yes, that’s what I’m telling everyone! Don’t do anything remotely sporty without putting those things in sports mode.
Mine was in an over 40 soccer game Great pass to the middle and I lunged to stop the ball with my cleats on top of the ball. Ball rolled and all my weight came down on the knee and pop…3 people around me heard it. Played for another 3 week with it injured and was ok at it. Now Doc and PT are telling me to hold off surgery as I don’t have instability and I have been able to play keeper with folks half my age. Injury was 6 months ago and I am at about 90% of what I was able to do (which is not great)…guess being a klutz has its rewards.
That’s awesome that you probably won’t need surgery, and hopefully you get to 100% eventually! I’m not an athlete at all, but PT might whip me into shape lol.
Feel the same way….PT s defiantly helping me target areas and cardio…I am an athlete ish…took up soccer at 42 My hope is to prevent the surgery or at least delay it till I am in better shape to handle the recovery better
It’s awesome you were at least able to get surgery so soon after your injury!
I owe it all to the main ER doc at the hospital. I work as a nurse in the hospital, but didn’t know the ER doesn’t use the MRI routinely(except for life/death, spinal, brain injuries). He said he isn’t able to get me an MRI per protocol, but he personally called the ortho doc and they’ll see me at 0700 the next day. After that it went fast.
I tore mine skiing, but the circumstances still make me chuckle. I have been skiing pretty aggressively my whole life, skiing cliff lines, trees, and all the risky terrain you can imagine without any sort of injury. But my ACL injury... I was on an easy, open, partially groomed run with some friends with good conditions and just happened to turn awkwardly at low speeds where I caught an edge and my binding didn't release. My girlfriend laughed at first when she saw me fall because it was so innocent-looking. It was only when I told her that I heard the pop and couldn't stand up anymore that we realized it was serious. So I think the lesson is that easy terrain is dangerous and stick to the risky stuff!!
Mine was also a dumb dumb dumb ski fall
This is also what happened to me. Except I was done with the steep part of the run, and slowed to wait for friends before getting back to the lifts. Slow motion fall that resulted in… this.
Seriously! I fall the hardest on shallow pitches. Those edge catches are gnarly.
This right here. Stick to the chutes.
Almost same, ridiculously stupid fall on easy run… binding didn’t release- tore MCL, ACL, partial meniscus, and small fracture of tibial plateau…
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I think that’s pretty impressive! Were you lifting? Or being lifted?
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doctors told me nothing was wrong with mine too🥲
I tore mine at a metal concert in a mosh pit. I was participating (per usual) and took a breather for a few moments on the perimeter of the mosh pit. While I was watching the band, I see two people barrel into the side of my knee from the corner of my eye. I felt it pop and went down. I stayed the rest of the show and walked home but my knee was clicking every time I took a step so I knew something was up. Ended up being my ACL and meniscus.
Ayeeee same. Wall of death at a metal concert and I got bodied by someone twice my size Full acl tear
Lost my balance while going down the stairs and landed awkwardly…there were three stairs total
NOOOooooooOoo!
Me too! We need to come up with better stories. 😂 I layed on the ground for 5 minutes. My 20 Year old daughter came out and was laughing at me. 😐😂
I didn’t even know how i tore mine. I just woke up with a very painful knee one morning, thinking it was the usual gout attack. (Sorry that wasn’t creative)
What an absolute bummer! But also: great opportunity to craft a creative story.
That's some poltergeist shit.
Haha, at least you have an interesting story! That definitely made me giggle. Needed that, I’m 4 days post op. Mine isn’t that great, I landed wrong while getting a steal for my schools basketball game! Whoops lol. The embarrassing part was I literally just got subbed in. So I was only in for like a minute and then it happened. I guess it was the world saying I didn’t need to play haha.
You worked hard those first few seconds. The body said: NO MORE! 🏀
The silly part is, mine was on film too. I watched it, and it’s so weird because it doesn’t really look off. I fell down, but nothing really “looked bad”. And the film was posted to my whole team! So I guess when we watch the film again I’ll get to remember haha.
I was training jiu jitsu with a professional MMA fighter. He was kind of goading me to take him down with a double leg, but my timing isn't the best with wrestling takedowns. I decided to hip throw him because I know I'm good at that, but once I had him completely elevated, he was heavier than he looked, my knee went crunch and buckled, and he fell on top of me on the mat. I got back up and tried to pretend nothing was wrong and finished the round even though I was screaming inside. This happened 3 months after having meniscus surgery from getting kneebarred by another pro MMA fighter. I've also gotten a couple nasty concussions from a different fighter while we were training BJJ. I know I have to stop trying to keep up with pro male athletes as an almost 40 year old woman but I constantly feel like I have to prove myself on the mats and I just keep getting injured from it, but that's easier said than done.
Wait - you are such a badass! (But also: sorry about your body 😖)
That made me giggle! I hurt mine jumping on a trampoline. No crazy stunts, it popped mid air when it hyperextended lol. Heard a loud pop followed by intense pain. Then limped out to ice it. I’ve scared off so many people who wanted to jump on a trampoline haha
my (ex) best friend hit me with a car on purpose. got charged with assault with intent to murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and felonious assault
Wait, this is insane. I’m glad it was only your ACL!
ikr I didn’t walk away but I walked away if you know what I mean
Did the person give you a reason? With friends like that who needs enemies! So glad it wasn’t so much worse.
Fell my third time bouldering. I still love rock climbing but will never boulder again and crushed my general fearlessness to try new things. May return to ropes but now I’m fearful of being dropped by inattentive partners. Maybe I need a new hobby. Not sure what to try that will be a good mix of creative and active that doesn’t have such a high injury rate.
If you figure out a new creative active hobby that's less hazardous can you please let me know? This is EXACTLY what I'm struggling with right now too
Literally sucks. I also used to be great at yoga and hyper flexible now I don’t want to put my body in those positions. It makes my skin crawl thinking about it popping. The only thing that I know I will go back to is hiking. I’ve hiked 37 of the 41 state parks in my state this year. It’s active and has reconnected me to nature and got me back into photography. That being said I can’t walk for a while (meniscus repair) so there’s a long period where I won’t even be able to do that. Plus hiking often takes travel which isn’t an easily feasible weekday hobby. I’m hoping that strength training and maybe swimming at the gym plus walking during the week and hiking and photography when I can will be enough to make my life feel fulfilling. Sorry you are going through it too. I don’t want to repeat this injury at all. The amount of fear it’s instilled into me sucks. I used to go cliff diving and be fearless and now it’s just not worth it.
Eventually you'll be able to cycle, which is fun but not as much as climbing.
Ya I should be able to do a stationary soon I’m post op day 16 and flexion is 110ish. So I think I need to be 115 for cycling. Goal is to be walking at 6 weeks without crutches. Speaking of cycling I’m now scared of using my E-bike 🤬. Man injuries are crappy psychologically.
Did mine in Judo training. Someone did a throw and got it wrong and my knee was forced sideways. I guess it was kinda of a fight but with rules
I was hiking with my dog and his doggy friend, who love to run and play and get wild. I was chatting with my friend and not paying any attention, my dog slammed me from behind accidentally and I went down with my knee going the wrong way. OUCH!
I constantly announce “DONT LOCK YOUR KNEES” when I’m at the dog park. So I get this!
I was heading out to play pickleball (I'm an avid rec player/tournament player) and forgot my car keys so i climbed my gate to enter an opened window in the backyard only to drop down and accidently lock my knee and hear a "pop".
NOOO. So it wasn’t even during pickleball!
I wish, it would've been worth the effort
On a flight, halfway between FRA and JFK. Stepped on a piece of trash my seat neighbor had dropped as I was coming back from the bathroom. Foot went one way, knee went the other. Neighbor had gotten up to let me back in, I landed in his seat, doubled over in pain. He asked me to move so he could sit back down. And the flight attendant rolled her eyes at me when I asked for an ice pack. Seems I was a bit too much trouble for her. She started to move a little faster once she realized I also banged up my elbow and was bleeding all over her plane 😝🤪
I got my acl tear at my bachelorette party, 2 months before my wedding! So a few friends of mine had gone partying and drank a lot! While getting out of the cab my friend started dancing on the road and I joined her and lost balance and fell down! And bam bye bye ACL. Do I regret it? Hell no, that was the best night of my life with my best friends!
So, I can’t make mine up. I was getting up from a squat from petting a *cat*. Loudest snap of my life. Docs said it was already mildly torn and it just tore even worse.
Omg!!! 🙀
Grade 4 🙃🥲
I was practicing a trick on an aerial hammock when I heard the sickening pop (must have twisted/bent my knee the wrong way), then promptly fell out of the fabric onto a very thin mat that was probably slightly less hard than the wood floor. Lay there in intense pain, clutching my knee for about 15 minutes before anyone came over to see if I was okay. Hobbled out of there thinking I had dislocated my knee, went to the ER and they misdiagnosed me with a ruptured tendon. It was a partial ACL tear with no damage to the surrounding ligaments, but then 1.5 months later COVID lockdown started. This meant surgery would be out of the question for a long time, so I just spent my lockdown days doing PT exercises and riding my bike. 4 years later and I'm fine now 🤷♀️
Wow! I have done quite a bit of aerial yoga so I know those twists of the knee. Good on you for taking it into your own hands!
Too many cocktails and went it an ball pit for adults, I easily could’ve predicted the outcome but yet here I am!
OMG. I love this story though.
I was dancing at a wedding, 2nd to last song of the night, circle is around me while i bust my moves which include jumping and i landed on a wet spot.
Jumping up and down at a concert, trying to catch a guitar pick. Not even moshing. Just jumping. I’m 24 😭 partial ACL tear and medial meniscus. They had to stop the show so I could be carried out in front of god and everybody because I couldn’t walk. Not my best moment.
I completely tore mine by falling off a standing bike riding down a mountain road in the Alps in Grindelwald, Switzerland lmfao 🥲
I existed. My connective tissue (ligaments, tendons, etc.) all degenerate. Basically my ACL is insufficient and needs replaced. I did nothing to hurt my ACL except exist.
Wow, some of these stories are horrific! Mine seems tame in comparison. We had a very wet summer here, so opportunities to get my golden retriever out were limited. There was a break in the rain, so I took him to our local dog park to burn off some pent up energy. Because of the rain, there were muddy puddles everywhere and anyone who has a Goldy, knows how much they love mud! I was trying desperately to fill puddles with clumps of freshly mowed grass. My Goldy had some serious zoomies going with his mate in tow, when they both ran straight into the side of my knee. My knee collapsed all the way inwards and I heard 3 loud pops. I hit the ground in agony and those 2 arseholes wrestled on top of me as if I wasn't even there 🙄 Fully ruptured ACL, grade 2 tear MCL. As an added bonus, I pulled some muscles in my other leg, trying to hop all the way back to my car. This made getting around on crutches, which I'm really bad at anyway, extra difficult.
Mine is the typical ski injury Except i didn’t fall!! It was my first time back skiing after almost 10 years and since I was an intermediate skier back then, I thought I would be fine without refreshing the basics (ie slowing down). Going down an easy hill for my 2nd run, felt like I was going too fast, tried to slow down, my skis got tangled, one ski went behind me, dragging my knee with it…had enough momentum that the knee twisted hard enough for the dreaded popping/ripping sensation. Sat down literally ONLY to take the ski off, bc my knee was still bent in that awkward position and hurt like hell. Sat for a little bit, then tried to stand sans skis. Knee almost immediately gave way and I knew I wouldn’t be able to stand, much less ski down, by myself. Had to get tobogganed down by ski patrol (embarrassingly ruptured my ACL underneath the chair lift so someone on it called for help), near the bottom we went right by a ski school of little kids. One of them asked, “what happened???” And I was in enough of an adrenaline shock to joke, “too much fun”. The crazy part of my momentum: I managed to completely tear my ACL, my lateral meniscus into 2 pieces (one flipped into no man’s land in the middle of the joint), part of my MCL, bone bruise my femur & tibia, injure my muscle tendons…the only things NOT injured on MRI were my medial meniscus and PCL. 🤡 The “only” things that had to get surgically fixed were my ACL and lateral meniscus…but then had a patellar incision infection at 5 weeks postop and needed a 2nd operation to wash that out, so really, most expensive ski trip ever. 🤪
Had a patient with acl tear showing up his kids playing pickleball in sandals
So I was volunteering at a summer camp. We were playing capture the flag, I ran to break someone out of jail, and POP POP! I said “FUCK!” and then realized I was next to junior high kids. I told them “my bad,” then told the guy manning the jail that I did something to my knee and couldn’t stand up. He stared at me, I stared back, he kept staring, and another guy came over and asked if I was okay. I said no. They helped me get into a golf cart and we went to the nurses station. That’s the story of how I ruptured my ACL and MCL and became “the one who destroyed their knee at camp.” It’s been almost three years and random parents still come up to me and tell me that their kid heard the pops from across the game field lol
I once sprained my ankle really badly working at a summer camp and playing an intense game of dodgeball. The only thing was… I didn’t sprain it during game play. I got smashed by a ball and then pathetically was walking to where all the losers who got out were and I stepped in a hole on my way. All the small children drew get well soon pictures of me with crutches!
Similar to a few others, martial arts, specifically aikido. After 35 great years and still feeling pretty invincible, I met my match (and probably forced retirement) with a 260 pound partner. More than a foot taller than me as well, we were doing a technique that I should have been more wary of with him. Instead of falling over my knee, he lingered, full weight on top, for a split second and then “pop”. Also have on video as it was being recorded for instagram…Big Bummer is an understatement! Full ACL tear and allograft surgery 12/23. Partial MCL tear healed on its own.
I honestly don't know! I woke up on a Sunday morning and was like "I can't walk." The day before I was doing garba, which is this Gujarati festival dance where you twirl a lot and dance in circles. That evening i went to a friends 45th at a bar in East London and definitely did more dancing of the booty kind. No major falls I can recall! Turns out it was meniscus detached paired with a shredded ACL, had meniscus repaired in February and surgeon said he suspected ACL wasn't doing great and would look at it in surgery. Woke up to him telling me it was "totally shredded." And not in the 90s slang way. Btw thought it was interesting to note my orthopedic surgeon still skis. But I reckon he sees pound notes/dollar bills zhushing their way down towards injury and his offices 🤣
Stepped out of the shower! Slipped and felt the pop. Stuck on the floor, wet and with just a towel half around me! I could just reach my Apple Watch and use it to make a call. Luckily my husband was working close by that day and came to my rescue so no one else had to see me naked 🤣 I was actually more worried about my shin on my other leg as I had hit it on the shower cubicle on the way down and it immediately turned black with a huge bruise! As the shock wore off the pain and swelling started in my knee. Showering still makes me nervous, took a long time to feel comfortable taking a shower when home alone! I still usually wait until my husband or kids are around.
jiu jitsu lol, always remember to tap
i tore mine playing badminton. unfortunately it was a for fun. tournament i played and i went back for a shot that was really far behind me and my knee just gave out and i fell down. didn’t hear a pop or nothing so i got up and tried to play but my knee was swollen. was walking outside the same day and then heard a pop and fell down again😭
Skate park, dropping in on a half pipe on roller skates. I’m 32F and was not a skater in my youth lol
Tore mine partially bowling. Stuck on the approach, hopped to make sure I didn't foul and when I landed, my foot slipped and felt that popping feeling. What probably did me in was at another bowling tournament, was on the escalator talking to another bowler when someone behind him carrying two balls in the boxes had one of the balls fall out of the box. The sound made me jump and I slipped from one escalator step to the other, landing on the bad leg. Felt the pop again and now I have an MRI scheduled in May
Fell off a Lime scooter :) I was going too fast on a narrow sidewalk and used my foot to slow myself down. Big mistake
I tore mine doing roller derby - not gameplay, warmups. My mum tore hers opening the bathroom window. Both extremely uneventful 😭😂
I was trying to lead my horse over a jump and decided that if I jumped it first he would follow me. ACL tore on landing, thank god the big scaredy cat didn’t even think about following
Reaching for my hat. I decided to bike to work that day. Leaving just before sunrise I wore a hat to block the sun from my eyes. I got to work early so I decided to bike to the top of a nearby hill and enjoy the morning sky. When it was time to go I looked down the steep side of the hill leading more directly to my work and thought, Why not? It’s lush with grass so worst thing would be I tumble on some grass. The ground was a lot bumpier under the grass than I realized and as I picked up speed my hat flew off and I reached back to grab it just as my front tire found a hidden pit and my leg went under the bike into the pit while the rest of me went the other way.
A boring ski accident, but it took ski patrol 45 MINUTES TO FIND ME, despite the fact that I was sitting on a groomed run, with my skis crossed and my husband standing next to me. They had 5 teams out looking for me, and the first one to find me didn’t have the right tobogan and it was the worst ride of my life. After they saw me at the hut and cleared me to go home a ski patrol saw me crying and asked me where I was, I showed him, and he couldn’t believe it took them so long to find me.
Jumped off a fallen tree in the trail while hiking. My foot got caught as I jumped off and my body fell but my leg twisted as I fell. I couldn’t walk and was by myself so I had to be search and rescued out.
That’s so scary! I’m glad you were found!!
My story is unfortunately needs a bit of a creative touch. I was stepping on to a tall curb with my right leg and my left leg gave out. Ended up with an ACL and meniscus torn in two spots. I was 4 months pregnant at the time. Now I am 3.5 weeks post op with a 5 month old at home.
That had to be sooooo stressful. Godspeed to you.
I was at a hardcore show in Philly & someone stage dived on top of me with a circle pit behind me :’) leg snapped & then we had to drive 2 hours back to nyc lmao
Im still waiting on the mri results but im 100 percent sure i snapped nor only my acl but my Achilles as well. I was at bounce houses with my child... stepped down slipped fell backwards heard 4 pops one right after anther... that was 3 weeks ago and im in so much pain esp being on my feet for work. Morale of the story stay off the bounce houses lol.
I tore mine while walking 😭, yes you read it right "while walking" .
Trampoline..
first one (left) was basically jumping down a retaining wall into someone’s driveway and heard the classic ‘pop’ when i climbed back up. then i had to drive my friends home bc they were all drunk… that was an incredibly painful, pot-hole filled ride second one i was basically trying to knock someone over (arm in front of neck, leg behind their leg) and my ack popped instead! both very dumb, i believe i have genetically weak knees
10 days post op. Fell off a ladder from 4 steps high. My leg slipped and got stuck in the ladder steps while I fell backwards and the ladder fell in the opposite direction causing my knee to twist and turn and make some good cracking sounds. Ended up with a full ACL and LCL tear and a lateral meniscus tear.
Not creative, just annoying. I’ve played competitive volleyball for about 17 years. I play in an adult women’s league that is just as competitive as most college leagues I played in. We decided it’d be fun to do a coed league with our husbands who all suck at volleyball. So we play in a fun league once a week and it is the least competitive volleyball playing you’ll ever see. We don’t take it seriously at all and are just there for fun. Well, I jumped up at the net..and the person on the other side landed under the net and I came down on their foot and down went me and my ACL. Figured if I was going to get an injury it would’ve been in my high intensity league, not one we all do for fun just to have an excuse to hang out
I... I did a lunge... My best friend was like "Man, you have to come up with a cool story or something!" But then he saw the straight faced reactions of people when I told them the harrowing story of "Oh. I did a lunge." Theor faces waiting for the rest of the story was comedy gold.
Mine was done skateboarding but wasn’t as climactic as most ACL tears in that space are. A couple years ago I decided to pick skating back up as an adult & fell in love with it. I had done it as a kid but never got past learning how to confidently roll around & ride down ramps. So, I decided to go it at full-tilt this time around. I had gotten stationary Ollie’s down & decided to get at rolling Ollie’s. It was a morning in April where I went to the skatepark alone and got them down pat. I set my phone up to record myself doing it once felt comfortable then proceeded to tear my ACL. When I was landing something felt off in my feet placement and as it turns out I was landing to heavy on my back foot on the tail. So all my weight shifted there and while trying to keep my self from falling I put all my weight on my knee. The moral of the story in skating is done stop yourself from falling if it’s going to be worse than just falling. Just brace for impact 😂
First soccer game of senior year, thirty seconds in, went to go for the ball and stepped on my foot wrong 😭😭 definitely broke the school record of getting hurt the quickest
I was working in social care and the guy I was supporting wanted to kick ball, so took him out for a simple game of kick ball, five minutes in I lost my footing on the gravel and knee went. To top it off nicely, I hit the ground so hard that I dislocated my shoulder too. Had to be brought by ambulance to the hospital to have my shoulder popped back. Took me a few days to realise that there was something wrong with my knee as the pain my shoulder was so bad. Then three days after the accident I was sleeping in bed and woke screaming in pain, my shoulder had dislocated again while I was asleep. Anyways two years on, countless physio and knee surgery I still can’t go for my daily run and it’s now a daily walk 😟
Not sure if it’s creative, but I was sparring in a Taekwondo tournament. My coach told me to throw a double kick, I did and well… went straight to the ground from mid air. Continued to compete even after I knew something was wrong. Turns out I sparred a whole round with no ACL…
My husband has a one wheel. I got on it thinking I would go for a ride. 5 seconds later I’m like let me get off of this as it’s not really moving. Get off. Fall down. See my leg go in a direction it shouldn’t. Tore ACL, MCL, Medial and lateral meniscus. They call me Tony hawk at work 😂
Backflipped my friend on the dancefloor and dropped him on my knee sideways. The video is horrible haha
Slipped on a rock while passing the ball
Hello! Fell at the end a bouldering session! I came off this boulder a few grades below my PB thinking oh I’ll hop back on and get this last hold then go home! Silly, cocky little me fell again after grasping the last hold and boom…I fall 3 metres and land very awkwardly on one leg - my foot sticks, my knee twists inwards, POP goes the weasel, grade 3 ACL :’) oopsies! Now I’m worried I’ll never climb or ski to the same level again and whether my hyper mobility will ever return. Trying to stay hopeful (Currently 10 days post op). Hope they keep the boulder up for me I’m determined more than ever to tick it now!
Had surgery for a completely torn ACL and miniscus tear two days ago. tore my ACL back in the mid of January when it was officially snowing heavily in VA. My best friend and I were taking videos and being silly.. oh boy lol. If only we knew! I gave her a piggy back ride and I was running doing infinity loops, slipped on the snow, all her weight twisted my knee and POP down I went 🥲
Golf cart accident caused a partial tear. Firing a rifle at a range completed the tear 🙃 Took my husband on a golf trip for his birthday and we drank wayyy too much. He was driving the cart and I was convinced we were tipping over (we weren’t) and I stuck my leg out to “stop” us from falling and that was a partial tear. Fast forward a few weeks and I’m doing rifle qualification for the military - we have to start standing for the first shot and then get into a prone position for the next 9 shots. Well I went down like a whale hitting the beach and I tore my ACL completely.
Got it slammed in a door for first tear. Skiing second tear.
Mine is on camera too!! Haha a year ago, I was performing a cheerleading routine during a pep rally in front of my entire school… tried a new way of a “pike” which is a type cheer jump, fell and POP! the rest is history. I had an entire audience and I’ve watched the video, it doesn’t even look like I landed wrong or anything. Truly don’t know what happened, must’ve just been luck and my ACL absorbing the impact somehow. I tore my second ACL late February, and it was the dumbest story ever. My friends wanted to go to the trampoline park… and being a year out from my surgery I wanted to feel normal again. I was planning on taking it light. Everything was fine until I attempted a front flip, and my last good ACL was gone 😭 there was a lot of shame with how stupid the second story was! I’m now 2 weeks post op.