In pain

[Legionary74]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

After that line has been spoken, things usually take a course due south.

Indeed

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

At any rate, I think we've all learned a very valuable lesson from your experience:

GOING OUTSIDE IS BAD.

Hercule Poirot always thought so.

Originally Posted by SteamWake

I slipped and fell on a slippery step the other night, severly brused my outer thigh, my lower back, and cracked the short rib.

Im 50+ years of age.

Last December I slipped on some ice while running for a train. Showing my usual grace and dexterity I did a perfect job of catching myself with my face. My nose wasn't broken, but there was a lot of blood. I also managed to do some damage to my right wrist. After the X-rays the doctor said nothing was broken, but there was damage they couldn't fix, and all he could suggest was pain-killers when it hurt. It only hurts when I put direct pressure on it, so I can't do pushups anymore.

And I'm 50 way +.

[Legionary74]

You dont need to press your face into the floor to do pushups?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Legionary74

You dont need to press your face into the floor to do pushups?

No, but you do need both wrists.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

No, but you do need both wrists.

You mean you can't do one-handed pushups?

Oh Steve... I thought you were so rugged.

[Legionary74]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

No, but you do need both wrists.

Whoops, thought you said nose :P

[CaptainMattJ.]

its really quite ironic. Your bones can take up to a ton of force before snapping, and yet people break bones all the time. maybe not SNAP bones but damage them nonetheless. Your body can do unimaginable things when it comes to survival. there was a hiker who lifted a 1200 pound rock off his body. a cop ran faster then a racehorse to get way from an inferno that suddenly erupted. and a guy who was sucked up in a tornado hits the ground 3/4 of a mile from where he was snatched, flying at 30 miles per hour and didnt break any bone or die. mainly because he was knocked out. And when you jump off and land in a say 4 foot jump, you exert about 3 times your body weight on your legs and feet.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Legionary74

I doubt its age, possibly athletic injury...


But ouch

Aye my knees started to hurt too and as a result I cut back on my jogging routine. I'm not sure whether it was the jogging or the static cycling that injured my knees or even cheap running shoes.

Damn it I really like my jogging routine it is one time I can go without thinking...I consider them my meditating time. Bicycling are for pansies well unless you cycle long distances or at least for 2 hours on fast speed.

I'm taking these also for the knees

[Reece]

Unusual for the knees to go then your back I would have thought!
Hopefully by now you are in the care of a physician!
Good Luck!

An excuse to get some vicoden?

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Making it a slippery hickory dock.

Oh... so bad yet sooo funny.

[antikristuseke]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Hercule Poirot always thought so.


Last December I slipped on some ice while running for a train. Showing my usual grace and dexterity I did a perfect job of catching myself with my face. My nose wasn't broken, but there was a lot of blood. I also managed to do some damage to my right wrist. After the X-rays the doctor said nothing was broken, but there was damage they couldn't fix, and all he could suggest was pain-killers when it hurt. It only hurts when I put direct pressure on it, so I can't do pushups anymore.

And I'm 50 way +.

Iv done similar damage to my right wrist, but the pain isn't too bad, can still do pushups, but it less painful to do it on my knuckes, weirdly enough.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

Iv done similar damage to my right wrist, but the pain isn't too bad, can still do pushups, but it less painful to do it on my knuckes, weirdly enough.

I don't find that weird at all, I've not had a wrist injury and I find that trying to do pushups with my hands flat on the floor is very uncomfortable and "tweaks" my wrists in a way that almost feels like I'm on the verge of spraining them or something. I think it's because in that position the forearms are pointing down towards the ground while the hands are almost bent back towards them and not taking a great deal of the stress... the stress of supporting one's weight is borne by the wrist joint, because that's where the "line" from shoulder to ground really ends.

Doing pushups from the knuckles with the hands in fists tends to keep the hands and forearms aligned in more of a straight line. The stress can travel down that line through the wrist joint and meet the ground at the knuckles and so the hand itself is bearing most of it.

I don't know if I'm explaining this right, I don't know the terms for it. But it's the same principle involved when throwing a punch - you make a fist and do not bend your wrist this way or that, when the arm is extended to deliver the force of the blow, the back of the hand making the fist should form a straight line with the forearm so that the power can travel straight down that line through the arm to the point of contact with the target. You wouldn't bend your fist back at the wrist and try to "push" the force of the blow into the target at the wrist joint, number one it would be a lousy punch and number two you'd be risking a wrist injury.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

At any rate, I think we've all learned a very valuable lesson from your experience:

GOING OUTSIDE IS BAD.

......study shows people who take the time each day to walk or jog around their neighborhood are happier and more confident than those who don't .




Especially true if you walk or jog at night in the Bronx neighborhood
Would be some relief to have made it home again

Studies show that 100% of people who go outside will die some day!