What are the most common injuries?

jcoll188 · Newbie Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 2 City: Bundaberg

What are the most common injuries? i need to know because i have this thing for school

wakeboarder07 · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

im not to sure if you would consider this an injury, but i get headaches alot! my most common injury is the board coming up and slicing my head...

Bowen · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject:

jcoll188, tearing of ligaments in your knees...all of them. I've heard of Torn Rotater cuffs, board cutting head open...

Injuries from strictly wakeboarding are the ones above...sometimes people get more serious injuries on sliders.

LFADAM · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

ACL injuries and concussions I would guess

colefooter · Posted: Feb 03, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject:

Arm through rope handle also can cause some nasty injuries. The others listed the most common ones.

_Jason_ · Soul Rider Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 275

DadKid · Outlaw Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 140 City: Ottawa

I've seen a bad knee fracture from trying to get up with the board already turned. A group of guys was trying it for the first time and nobody knew the standard way of getting up. He had his left knee forward-the driver hit it and he heard a snap before he got out of the water. If you don't know what you're doin' then take a lesson.

Ctipping · Posted: Feb 06, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

broken head. Laughing

no seriously, the doc thought i busted my acl off a 360, and i had to get an MRI scan n stuff....sucks....lots of whiplash and concussions too

noneya · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 796 City: Roxboro, NC

I have heard that it is broken eardrum

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Feb 07, 2005 9:03 am Post subject:

i think KNEES and stuff landing on the flats on a d-up on a wakesetter

Maestro · Posted: Feb 07, 2005 9:13 am Post subject:

I think it's more dangerous riding behind the boat than on sliders. Seems like the slider injuries are quite minor - just scrapes and bruises, but behind the boat you can get really messed up.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

Maestro, I'd agree with you if you are wearing a helmet and have proper shielding on the supports of the slider. But if you build a rickety slider that has bad news written all over it.

I would think eardrum and concussion would be pretty common. Although the only wake-related injury I've ever had was arm through the handle. My entire arm was purple and swolen for 2 months.

Maestro · Posted: Feb 07, 2005 9:37 am Post subject:

Very true Wakebrad - I was just assuming that people would take those precautions... then again, sometimes assumptions make an ass out of us all! Rolling Eyes

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

I have gotten a hyper-extended thumb (twice), middle finger (don't know how I managed that but I did), and pinky (another "how the #@&^), also I nailed my elbow pretty bad once but nothing some ice couldn't fix. Very Happy

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Ctipping · Posted: Feb 07, 2005 2:16 pm Post subject:

ballywho, Rider Down! Rider Down!

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

Yeah, down and then some. Laughing

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cRaZyMo · Outlaw Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 106 City: Naples

messed up ankles and kneez

parks143dna · Newbie Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 14 City: Danville

sliced my leg when my board broke, it was my nastiest fall ever. that one came with a headache too.

Chad H · Posted: Feb 14, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:

My back hurts everynow and then. Oh yeah and knee injuries

HyPeDwAkE · Posted: Feb 14, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

I got a concussion once. I think.. haha ...

w2w420 · Newbie Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 14 City: Austin

I hear the worst are relating to the knees:

Torn/severed ACL Anterior Crucient Ligament
Torn/severed PCL Posterior Crucient Ligament
Damage to the maniscus (sp?)

Etc, etc.

gotama176 · Soul Rider Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 341 City: Columbus

Landing out in the flats killed my back last season....

Oh yeah, and I broke my eardrum a couple of years ago...that sucked Evil or Very Mad

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

Also if the water is shallow enough for sliders you could hit the bottom, also, duh, hitting the slider Sad

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w2w420 · Newbie Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 14 City: Austin

Yeah I popped two eardrums within two months last season. Doh!!! Fortunately I have a specialist that doesn't keep me off the water. He just had me plug it while riding. Gotta love it.

garrett720 · Posted: Feb 16, 2005 11:31 am Post subject:

i had 2 concusions and got nocked out. sometimes on bad landings i get the breath nocked out of me.

garrett720 · Posted: Feb 16, 2005 11:32 am Post subject:

i had 2 concusions and got nocked out. sometimes on bad landings i get the breath nocked out of me.

HyperRash · Posted: Feb 19, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject:

some sort of knee injury

wakesnake · Newbie Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 37 City: Tamworth N.S.W

i nearly brock my rib fizzing an off axsis 3 lol it hurt..and headaches and knees are the most common i think. Crying or Very sad

hyperlitewakeboarding · Outlaw Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

u guys got me scared now Neutral

wut speed were u guys going when u got injured?? does speed have n e thing to do with it??

waker1der · Outlaw Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 102 City: London UK

speed obviously will make a difference, most people board around 25mph, its not that speed that is the problem, its the speed you hit the wake at, because you increase that speed when you cutting into the wake, so if it all goes wrong you can be hitting the water at 30mph+ which can seem like hitting concrete. The left side of my head is weaker and to save probs later in life a wear a lid (helmet) and a flak jacket which has saved my ribs a couple of times. Get a good flak jacket (i got jetpilot), they cost money but deflect a lot of impact so its worth it while your learning. But my personal preference is looking after my head, its all to easy to concuss yourself, which we think is funny but can cause a lot of damage... but thats why we love it, everyone thirives on danger some how Twisted Evil