Unicycle injuries and busted wrists

kington99 said:

Badly twisted and sprained ankles is common, dismounting at speed or on
steep ground causes you to fall on them awkwardly. Also cuts on your
shins and the back of your legs is a given unless you wear leg armour,
particularly if you use metal pedals.

I'm so used to cut shins from my bike I didn't notice when I did it on
my Uni a few times.

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lol i fell badly for the first time the day i got my wellgo metal
pedals, i did a 80cm drop or sommit, landed wrong, hurt my ankle and
gave myself 4 lovely gashes.... yeah i'd recommend some leg armour...
for the ankles... i've only ever hurt mine on that particular
instant... get some cycling shorts though, and dont ask why, you dont
have to be a genius to workt aht one out !

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yeah, i was practicin' and tryin' to learn on my 20 incher last night
(i've logged all of about an hour total on (or mainly off) the uni) and
i got me some good gashes on my left ankle. where ya get these vaunted
ankle guards?

and a related question--how long til i can ride???🙂 :eek: 😄 😎 🙂

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climbingkid said:

Here my inexperience showed, and in what seemed like a nano second it
all went pair shapped as I went flying off backwards.

Same. I went super fast and hit a bump backwards, and broke my arm. It
was the dumbest and only serious fall I have had so far. I think why
people are hurting their ankle is because they have their foot on the
wrong part of the pedal.

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Scrobo said:

but what would I expect from someone who has Marajuana as their avatar?

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*gasp!* your avatar is truly offensive, remove it asap!

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I remember when I learned to rides years ago as a kid I would get going
and my feet would adjust to the inside of the pedals and next thing I
knew SLAM ankle right into the fork tube.

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when you have problems with your ankles -> 661 RaceBrace

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amanda.gallacher said:

i thought you couldnt even unicycle 🙄

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2000 parachute jumps without a fracture and then I went and broke my
hand falling off my uni. That was 2 years ago and I'm still annoyed
that I did it. My hand landed directly on the pavement and broke a
bone at the base of the hand. It required the insertion of 3 lateral
pins the width of the hand. Needless to say I only ride with
rollerblade-type wrist guards now.

Oddly enough, I quit wearing wrist guards while snowboarding. Maybe I
need to rethink that.

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be careful not to land wrong off stair sets...... do a few
searches....... you'll figure it out.... shins, ankles, wrists, hands,
feet, HEAD, back..... ect.......

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ankles - 'Swede-O' (http://tinyurl.com/y3hkvw) or '661'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=720)
shin/knee - '661'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=404)
wrist - 'Rollerblade 3D'
(http://speedskaterwear.tripod.com/supclothes.html)
forearm/elpow - '661'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=399)
head - 'Giro Xen' (http://www.argear.com/gear/grgiroxenhelmet.html)
seat - cycling shorts
but - '661 bomber' (http://unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=704)

patmoore said:

Oddly enough, I quit wearing wrist guards while snowboarding. Maybe I
need to rethink that.

I don't think so, snow is softer than concreet😄 . Unless you ride a
lot of boilerplate.

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My injuries include
cracked rip
sprained thumb
sprained ankle
broken crank 🙂 Nothing major, considering its an extreme sport.

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uhm i managed to break a tendant in my finger...

otherwise just shins and metal pedals = owww

and a rather nasty fall which jumping off a curb (that was really
tupid) and i fell on my elbow and it bled a lot but was just cosmetic
really...

apart from that a sprained ankle once falling off a stair case but i
felt lucky that was all cause that fall was impressive...

jsut dont worry about it and wear as much protection as possible...

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Smilymarco said:

when you have problems with your ankles -> 661 RaceBrace

I have those.
they are very very difficult to place properly (there is no right or
left brace) so most of the time one is constantly chaffing one of my
ankles.
But I won't muni without those!

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brendan said:

jsut dont worry about it and wear as much protection as possible...

I was about to make a joke that had to do with a prostitute, but, ill
hold back.😄

Anyways, lets see, I have sprained my ankle, broken some toes, jammed
fingers, bruised rib and thigh, cut my inner thigh, some pedal bites,
and falling on my butt a few times.

Nothing too serious. =p

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I fractured my schaphoid sailing, its not hard to do. the real damage
was when i continued to sail on into the afternoon untill my hand would
no longer work. I did not actually realise it was a fracture and i was
pretty cold so probably didnt notice the pain. luckily there was no
lasting damage.

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Is it tomorrow in Australia already???

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i broke a bone in my wrist once, well sort of. i fell on it pretty hard
skating then after about a day or so in pain i decided to go to the
doctor. they said it broken after taking x-rays. then 2 weeks later i
went to get a better cast fitted, when they took more x-rays and my
wrist seemed fine. it took about 2 months or so though for the pain to
fully go away.

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skilewis74 said:

I don't think so, snow is softer than concreet😄 . Unless you ride a
lot of boilerplate.

The "Ice Coast" is replete with boilerplate. I frequently switch from a
race board to race skis the same day and the wrist guards don't work
with ski poles. Thumb and wrist injuries are among the most common for
knuckledraggers.

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Sprained ankles, like the one i got last saturday, 🙁 other than that
the only injuries ive had were pedal bites, one of which required
stiches.

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Well i'm out of the cast - on the grounds that I need to write code, and
on the assurance I would not be climbing, unicycling, snowboarding,
mountain biking... Yeah whatever!

Thanks for the replies, looks like I was just unlucky - now balancing
on top of a picnic table is the next challenge.....

CK

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Busted scaphoid here, still in cast.... and still shopping for decent
adult sized wrist guards.

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