rebeccad
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 10, 2015 16:12:20 GMT -8
For me, wearing long pants (as I always do) only serves to hide the damage until I bother to take a closer look. I find it greatly reduces the minor scrapes--the stuff from branches and such--and plant reactions. I still get some great bruises, and drew blood at least once on our most recent trip, despite the long pants.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 11, 2015 4:03:33 GMT -8
I'm a walking injury... multiple fractures, minor dislocations, etc.
But the worst injury happened during high school football. Someone was wrapped around my lower leg, and another guy hit me up high and sideways. Knee was the giving point. Took a year of rehab. Don't know the exact injury because it was before we had ACLs, MCLs, etc. The rehab is what got me into weightlifting... and ended up being a competitive powerlifter, olympic (style)weightlifter, and strongman. Very, very rarely will it ever act up.
Another bad one was in the high school weight room. I was on one of those "old fashioned" leg press stations where you're sitting vertically in a seat and you push straight out (parallel to the ground) on foot "pedals", which raises the weight stack on the other side of the machine. I asked someone to put the entire rack on. They thought they'd be funny and only put 1/4 on. I pushed out with a lot of force, and the weight went flying up. The momentum carried the foot pedals past my feet, my feet hit the floor, and then the weight stack dropped pushing the foot pedals back towards me, gouging my right shin on the way. Literally gouged a section of bone out. That #$%&er still hurts to the touch to this day.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 13:30:34 GMT -8
I fractured my fibula coming down from a backpacking trip to Minaret Lake. I had to be litter carried out by a the Mono SAR. Great bunch of people and I appreciated their help.
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