TKD injures

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Well as my mom said once to me, son you really love TKD, no mather the good things or the bad things you always get back for more.

Over the years doing TKD I have had some injures and I want to share with you:

1.-Broken front theet.
2.-Broken nose.
3.-Broken toe (foot).
4.-Broken tendon (foot).
5.-Fisurate hand.
6.-Concusion (knock out).
7.-Several groin kicks.


What injures do you have afther so many years of TKD?

Manny
 

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Lets see from the normal ones

Knock out a few times
ACL
MCL
Broken fingers
Broken toe
Cracked ribs
Broken arm
fractured leg
avulsion fracture of foot


Way to many bruise and bumps oh yea a fracture jaw in the eighties. That about end it for me.
 

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Cracked ribs from taking a punch in sparring.
Broken finger from a misaligned spear hand into a bucket of sand.
Concussion from a roundhouse kick to head.
A pinched nerve in the arm from some experimentation with tuite - this was more serious than it sounds - I had a useless numb arm for half a week.

A few bloody noses and busted lips.
Countless bruises & cuts.

If you aren't taking a beating occasionally, you need to rev up the intensity a bit. Just my humble opinion.
 

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Once again, I'm not a TKDer, but Manny's threads are so much fun...

Torn ligaments in both sides of my right ankle
Jammed thumbs (right one 2x; left one 1x)
Sprained finger (this one looked really gruesome; I punched a metal face mask)
Pulled hamstring (?x)
Scores of bruises, including visible toe prints
Near knockout from a kick to the body (horseshoers have STRONG legs)
Wounded pride
Bruised ego
Separated ribs (3 of them pulled loose from the cartilage near the sternum)
Broken nose (2x)
Split lip
And my most recent, acquired at a tournament on June 5th, cuts to my forehead, lip, and side of my mouth. The one next to my mouth looks like it's going to leave a permanent scar. That's okay, though, because my husband thinks facial scars are hot. :ultracool
 

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Broken toe (same one 3 times)
Little finger left hand dislocated in 3 places & broken in 2 (in one shot)
Three stitches under my lower lip
Many bruised ribs
Many pulled muscles
Hip dislocation
Low back issues for many years

I think I've actually done pretty well.:ultracool
 
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Ohhhh also forgot:

8.-Cut lips.
9.-Dented pride.
10.-Bruised ego too.
11.-a lot of blood blisters in my feet soles (from woden floor and old days).

Jesus I remeber when was a teen and cutting and cleaning the blood blisters on my feet and walking in pain my mom almost crying saying to me we were barbarian people in the dojan. Can you imagine wearing tigh cowboy boots in a high school play scene and having both feet soles without skin (because the blood blisters)??? Ohh boy it hurts to remember, nowdays we have the padiing floor for practicing but in the good old days we had only wood floor like the bascket ball curts.

Manny
 

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Ohh boy it hurts to remember, nowdays we have the padiing floor for practicing but in the good old days we had only wood floor like the bascket ball curts.

I prefer wooden floors and had them installed in my dojo. They are traditional, practical, and pleasing to look at. You can always pull out the mats if you need a soft surface to practice falls on. Can't say that any of my students have had blood blisters from the wooden floors either, and we run kata countless times across the floors.
 

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I prefer wooden floors and had them installed in my dojo. They are traditional, practical, and pleasing to look at. You can always pull out the mats if you need a soft surface to practice falls on. Can't say that any of my students have had blood blisters from the wooden floors either, and we run kata countless times across the floors.

I'm sure your floor is not like those of old. All wooden floors are not created equally.
 
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In my old dojang (Ji Do Kwan) we got blood blisters from the friction of our feet against the wood floor, with time and afther several months we developed callouses in our feet that protect us from the blisters, however there were the times wehen the session were harder than ususal and yes the blisters emerged again.

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1. pulled MCL Left knee
2. sprained foot right side
3. sprained ankles (?x) both feet
4. pulled hamstrings both sides 3-4x
5. sprained writs right side
6. pulled thigh muscle...femural something or other left side
many bumps n bruises!
 

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- 2 broken noses
- a few broken ribs
-a few cracked ribs
-cracked sternum
-dislocated elbow
- knocked out once
- anterior compartment syndrome
- 3 torn groin muscles
-plenty of bruises, but that's just a part of normal training!

all in all, not too bad.. . most of them were when I was a teenager.
 

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Iceman,

WOW, hip dislocation, that's a rough one! I dislocated my elbow once, and it was one of the most painful things ever.. . Other than the removal of my thoracotomy tube (collapsed lung from car accident)
 

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Iceman,

WOW, hip dislocation, that's a rough one! I dislocated my elbow once, and it was one of the most painful things ever.. . Other than the removal of my thoracotomy tube (collapsed lung from car accident)

I was stretching (splits) at the time. It was something I was quite able to do, then one day, Pop! I haven't been as flexible since. That was 20 years ago.
 

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In my old dojang (Ji Do Kwan) we got blood blisters from the friction of our feet against the wood floor, with time and afther several months we developed callouses in our feet that protect us from the blisters, however there were the times wehen the session were harder than ususal and yes the blisters emerged again.

Manny

We work out on wood floors, tile floors, concrete--the only one that bothers me is carpet. I hate working out on carpet; it gives me rug burns on my feet. Once, though, the air conditioning system went out in the wood-floored gym. Apparently, that caused the wood to swell or something, so we all had huge blisters after sparring.
 

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Compared to others I have been fortunate
Several broken toes.
A broken finger.
Torn calf muscle x2
Bruises
A slight groin pull a time or two
Shin splints
Plantar faciaitis (sp)
Shoulder tweak that ended up in surgery.
Sore muscles
Wounded pride
Busted ego
 

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