Anyone here end their season to a broken hip?

YoungWookiee

YoungWookiee

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Hi newschoolers, in currently in the hospital recovering from breaking my hip on Sunday up at Stevens pass. It was pretty windy up there and I decided to sit on my skis to get some speed to clear waterfall I had a couple beers in me and I wasn't thinking. I couldn't get back up from sitting and over shot waterfall and was in the air backseat and landed right on my hip and it shot up and I'm not particularly sure exactly what happened but my hip joint went up and shattered in the pocket also. I'm being told I can't walk without a walker for 3 months minimum. I'm also considering possibly giving up on skiing for a couple seasons maybe. The ambulance ripped all my sweet clothes off too. Will update with pictures as soon as I'm out of the hospital.
 
geez dude. I can't offer much advice about hip injuries but I hope you heal up quick. Sounds super painful and like a not fun way to end your season):
 
Vibes man. I'm wishing you a successful and speedy recovery.

It's up to you if you want to keep going hard on the skis, post recovery. It's a super personal thing, but my advice is to seriously consider your long term health. In my opinion, having a decent hip when you're older will serve you much better than messing around in a terrain park again. I know that it sucks - I had to make that call for myself a few winters ago (my knees). But it is what it is.
 
13774591:Mingg said:
geez dude. I can't offer much advice about hip injuries but I hope you heal up quick. Sounds super painful and like a not fun way to end your season):
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Yeah I've been at harborview in Seattle since Sunday :( couldn't get up today during pt cause I didn't have any meds but tomorrow morning I should be able to with the help of some medication. Pretty bummed out right now.
 
13774594:Park_Ranger said:
Vibes man. I'm wishing you a successful and speedy recovery.

It's up to you if you want to keep going hard on the skis, post recovery. It's a super personal thing, but my advice is to seriously consider your long term health. In my opinion, having a decent hip when you're older will serve you much better than messing around in a terrain park again. I know that it sucks - I had to make that call for myself a few winters ago (my knees). But it is what it is.
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That's exactly why I'm considering ending skiing. This injury was very very painful I was awake the whole way down to the hospital and i never want to get injured like this again. I can't walk at the moment it's sad, sadly skiing is my favorite hobby to and if I have to ski groomers from now on to avoid injury again I don't know if I would even want to risk that
 
Holy shit man sending all the vibes! I don't know anything about hip injuries but I think that you should wait till you're a little further along in recovery before you call it quits on skiing. Maybe for a season or two but not forever, so hold onto those ON3Ps for now haha! .
 
13774608:TheDoughAbides said:
Holy shit man sending all the vibes! I don't know anything about hip injuries but I think that you should wait till you're a little further along in recovery before you call it quits on skiing. Maybe for a season or two but not forever, so hold onto those ON3Ps for now haha! .
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I got up today during pt and walked around and stuff so that was a sigh of relief. I have yet to go to the bathroom on my own yet though so still bummed about that.
 
13774869:YoungWookiee said:
I got up today during pt and walked around and stuff so that was a sigh of relief. I have yet to go to the bathroom on my own yet though so still bummed about that.
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are you crutching or walking? i got stuck on crutches for 2.5 months last year and it was truly awful that fucking sucks about the bathroom though.
 
I broke my hip in a similar way when I was 16.

Had laid out a few backflips over a hip jump at Wisp the day before, then, idiotically I did not adjust for the freezing rain that happened overnight. Needless to say the icy run-in sent me about 20 feet past the landing onto my ass, and my thigh bone cracked my acetabulum (hip socket)

The good news:

I still rip and it generally doesn't affect my skiing, as long as I properly warm it up. Watch what you eat while you're recovering so you don't get fat and you will be back 100%

The bad news:

I totally lied about the 100% part.

In general it doesn't affect my athletic performance, but it does hurt sometimes, especially (I shit you not) when a storm is coming. The humidity affects it. You and I both will probably need hip replacements in our early 50s. That's no fun.

Happy bedpan pissing!
 
Wow really sorry to hear that, take it easy. I wouldn't make any decisions about skiing yet. Just focus on recovery right now.
 
Wow I feel your pain. I just broke my hip skiing on Friday, January 6th, 2017 in icy Quebec, Canada. I hit a huge ice patch on my last run & boom I fell on my left hip. The pain was unbearable! I was lucky to have surgery 6 hrs post break but those 6 hours were hell. I fastracked out of the hospital after 2 days post surgery because I wanted to get home - I was a 7hr drive from home. I am set up at home in a rented hospital bed on the main floor of my house & I use a walker to get to the bathroom. I can't wait bear on my left leg for 4 weeks at which point I get an X-ray & can start 50% weight bearing if X-ray is good. You have youth on your side so I am sure you will heal well. As for skiing I imagine you getting back on you skis. Being older I am not sure I should ever ski again BUT it was a family activity we enjoyed. All the best on your rehab journey!
 
thats crazy man, i can relate but, one of my friends snaped his tibia in half a few days ago trying a huge backflip. he over rotated a little bit and he was done for. feel better soon!
 
I feel your pain man.. I have had 6 surgeries since I had a femoral neck fracture skiing in dec of 2005. I still ski harder than I did before, but with caution and the mindset that I CANNOT FALL. It blows. I just got back from a whistler trip and ripped. I'll tell you though, I got unlucky and lost the bloodflow to the head of my fwmur after the initial accident. Being 16-18 at the time doctors wanted me to get a free vascularized fibular graft which I did.(no longer have a connected fibula in my lower left leg.) That surgery did not work. It lead to the developement of clawtoe, which lead to getting my tendons cut and my big toe fused, and then a total hip replacement in dec 2014. It feels pretty solid, but is always a constant reminder not to send it too big :D only in 3ft+pow. Just keep up on the PT and hopefully you don't develope avascular necrosis like I did.
 
13774869:YoungWookiee said:
I got up today during pt and walked around and stuff so that was a sigh of relief. I have yet to go to the bathroom on my own yet though so still bummed about that.
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When I broke my back skiing, I was on bed rest for 2 or 3 days, and refused to shit in a bedpan. As soon as they gave me the brace I booked it to the bathroom and shit standing up.
 
Sucks to hear dude. Talking about hips, I dislocated mine on Feb 7th 2017. I came in too fast onto a flat-down-flat, got a bit of air from the end of the first flat part and did a disaster onto the second flat part, my skis slipped and i basically nutted the rail but managed to hit it with my right leg. The rail was tall enough for me to be able to nut it so i couldn't slow the fall with my other leg at all.

The weird thing was that I didn't realize I had dislocated my hip cause the impact didn't hurt too bad. I laid on the ground and took a breath before trying to get up and that's when I realized something wasn't right, it hurt like hell and I couldn't move my leg almost at all.

Luckily some snowboarders rode by me and stopped to ask if I was ok, clearly I wasn't and then came in the snowmobiles and later also the ambulance and I was taken to the hospital. At first they thought i had snapped my femur cause when they tried lifting my knee it hurt the most. But after some xrays they realized it was my hip, not the femur.

They told me I was lucky and unlucky at the same time. Apparently dislocation of the hip is very rare (like one case per 10 years or something) but it's even more rare to not brake anything when it happens. Now i'm on crutches for a few weeks and I'm supposed to avoid sports for 2 months. So I don't think I'm going to have time to get back on skis this season. This is the first real injury for me and it was a scary one for sure. I added a pic of the xray pic of my hip. I felt like sharing my experience since this thread was about hip injuries. But best of luck on recovery for everyone else too! Stay positive :)

[img=]http://i.imgur.com/BTiiiR8.jpg[/img]

**This post was edited on Feb 22nd 2017 at 12:25:08pm
 
13789708:Kahkonen said:
I added a pic of the xray pic of my hip.)
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The pic doesn't show for some reason so here's a link if you wanna see it:
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I'm going to upload my X-rays soon I just really don't want to look at them tbh I got some fucked up pictures I can throw up like some bones or something like that all bloody and shit it's messed up and personally I don't want to see it but I do want to post it up.
 
I just got some great news from the hospital! I got a letter explaining my injury and what was done at the hospital and they also shortened my time on crutches to two weeks, which means I can get rid of them tomorrow! I'm still going to take it easy for a couple of weeks before getting back to sports just to make sure i'm fully recovered. I thought my season was 100% over but I think i might be able to get back on skis before the spring comes. Speedy recovery for you all!
 
13789711:Kahkonen said:
The pic doesn't show for some reason so here's a link if you wanna see it:
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That is a crazy x-ray!!!! Obviously I haven't had an x-ray done in a long time cause my last one looked like the old school kind.
 
Yeah I think that's actually a ct scan picture which combines multiple xrays and creates a 3D model from it. That's that movie-type machine where the bed goes trough a ring :D
 
13789708:Kahkonen said:
Sucks to hear dude. Talking about hips, I dislocated mine on Feb 7th 2017. I came in too fast onto a flat-down-flat, got a bit of air from the end of the first flat part and did a disaster onto the second flat part, my skis slipped and i basically nutted the rail but managed to hit it with my right leg. The rail was tall enough for me to be able to nut it so i couldn't slow the fall with my other leg at all.

The weird thing was that I didn't realize I had dislocated my hip cause the impact didn't hurt too bad. I laid on the ground and took a breath before trying to get up and that's when I realized something wasn't right, it hurt like hell and I couldn't move my leg almost at all.

Luckily some snowboarders rode by me and stopped to ask if I was ok, clearly I wasn't and then came in the snowmobiles and later also the ambulance and I was taken to the hospital. At first they thought i had snapped my femur cause when they tried lifting my knee it hurt the most. But after some xrays they realized it was my hip, not the femur.

They told me I was lucky and unlucky at the same time. Apparently dislocation of the hip is very rare (like one case per 10 years or something) but it's even more rare to not brake anything when it happens. Now i'm on crutches for a few weeks and I'm supposed to avoid sports for 2 months. So I don't think I'm going to have time to get back on skis this season. This is the first real injury for me and it was a scary one for sure. I added a pic of the xray pic of my hip. I felt like sharing my experience since this thread was about hip injuries. But best of luck on recovery for everyone else too! Stay positive :)

[img=]http://i.imgur.com/BTiiiR8.jpg[/img]

**This post was edited on Feb 22nd 2017 at 12:25:08pm
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Fixed your post for ya.

And geeze.... I can't even process breaking a hip. Sounds absolutely awful.
 
13931313:YoungWookiee said:
Looking back, this was a gnarly/ eye opening time for me and I appreciate everyone that posted in here.
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Glad to see ya made it out the other side, sort of. Be careful when you get back on them sticks
 
I have also greatly improved my health since my accident and i've been living a lot healthier ever since. Accidents like this are a good wake-up call. Now i feel better than ever. Looking back on it, im kinda glad that it happened, for my own good. Stoked for the upcoming season.
 
13941903:Swizzer said:
I have also greatly improved my health since my accident and i've been living a lot healthier ever since. Accidents like this are a good wake-up call. Now i feel better than ever. Looking back on it, im kinda glad that it happened, for my own good. Stoked for the upcoming season.
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Wow, that's awesome. thanks for the update, i was super curious as i read the OP
 
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