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Old Tue Feb 27, 2007, 08:06am
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The worst injury I have seen happened in a summer camp game. A player was trying to save a ball in the corner and his momentum took him into a post about 8ft off the court. He hit his head on the corner of the post and cut one his arteries in his head. blood was everywhere. Luckily there was a paramedic nearby and he was able to control the bleeding until the ambulance got there.
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Old Tue Feb 27, 2007, 08:32am
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Guard driving for an uncontested dunk. He decides to finish with a flourish, but the tension on the rim pulls his hand up as his body descends. I saw his arm stretch weirdly at the elbow -- dislocation. When he hit the ground, his ulna was clearly beside the humerus.

I still shiver when I recall it.
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Old Tue Feb 27, 2007, 08:57am
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I had a Grade 8 Boys game where a kid was running in on a 2 on 1, goes for the layup and gets blocked, clean as a whistle. The force of the block knocks the kid off balance and he fell awkwardly on his hand and arm, SNAP. His arm was bent at 90 degrees right in the middle of his forearm. It was the classic fracture I was taught in Paramedic classes. He had no pain at all, it just looked UGLY. Luckily it was not a compound fracture so no Blood to clean. Delayed the game long enough for someone to get me a splint and by the time I immobed his arm an ambulance was there and took the kid to the hospital to set the break. Talked to the Coaches about continuing the game, the teammates were more disturbed then the young man who was injured. 35 minutes later off we went to finish the game. The kids team lost by 2 points in OT.
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Old Tue Feb 27, 2007, 09:09am
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Back when I was playing in a mens league, a teammate goes up for a layup and was pushed from behind. He landed awkwardly on one leg, and "pop" goes his Achilles tendon. His calf rolled up like a window shade behind his knee, leaving him screaming in pain on the floor.
He was one of the best players I've ever seen, but he never played again.
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Old Tue Feb 27, 2007, 09:14am
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This one is football but nothing I've seen has ever topped it. Not even Joe Theisman's leg looked as bad as this, In practice an Iowa State running back in about 1975 or so was running down field and slightly left and then cut back off his left foot and turned back towards the right. When he planted his right foot it happened to be against the grain of the astro-turf and got caught up and it got stuck in the turf. His momentum then took his upper body over the top of his stuck foot and his upper body then sort of rolled over the top of his own leg. His knee then hyper extended a complete 90 degrees the opposite direction that it should be before the foot became unstuck. In other words if he had been sitting normally in a chair his foot and toes would be staring back at him in the face. The doctors thought for awhile to just go ahead and amputate but they didn't.

The trainer had the film and also made four still pictures from the negatives which is how you can see the full 90 degrees. It was brutal.
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Old Tue Feb 27, 2007, 09:33am
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The worst I've witnessed was a girl dislocating her kneecap.
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Old Tue Feb 27, 2007, 09:46am
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I was in college and we had a 7 footer on our team who wasn't very coordinated.

He went up for a dunk, dunked the ball but got his front two teeth tangled in the net (You couldn't make this one up). You can imagine what happened on the way down.....Crack....two teeth go flying and blood all over.

Recovered the teeth but were broken at the root so they had to be removed and new, artificial teeth put back in......
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