Big toe might be broke

[onefiftyfour]

I had just added elbow protection to my list of saftey gear and was
feeling invincible when I UPD'd onto a rocky trail. My elbows are fine
and I think they did get hit. My left knee is sore. I was wearing roach
armor - they really don't protect knees too well. My right big toe got
slammed some how. I've been wearing BMX shoes which are pretty soft,
but grip the pedals well. I hope this heals quickly.

Maybe I should be wearing toe armor.

-Eric


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[ubersquish]

i went for about a year with at least one of my pinky toes broken. they
just wouldn't finish healing with breaking first


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[S_Wallis]

Eric,

I have broken or badly sprained 3 toes. Actually I did the same middle
toe twice, both times by a UPD where as I swung my foot forward to catch
myself it nailed a rock embedded in the ground. My big toe I did when I
made a high speed jump off a ledge and the uni inexplicably stopped at
the edge (scared I guess). I flew a good 20 feet distance and 3 foot
drop in perfect superman form, landing on my hands, elbows, and toes.
In all three cases my toes turned black and hurt like hell for a long
time. Everytime I do it I say I am not going to ride again until I
armor my toes. But then I forget.
You Austin guys seem to be having a run of injuries. Be carefuller.:)


Scott


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[onefiftyfour]

> In all three cases my toes turned black and hurt like hell for a long
> time


Maybe mine's not broke then. It is swolen, but not discolored. I can
bend it with not much pain, but I can't put weight on it.

-Eric


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[paco]

onefiftyfour wrote:
> *It is swolen, but not discolored. I can bend it with not much pain,
> but I can't put weight on it.*

I did that to my toe as well... when I stubbed it on my couch while
walking barefoot across my room. Not the most glorious injury, but it
did hurt.
My grandma broke her toe when a cat got frightened and jumped with all
its force directed at her toe.


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[Erin]

Yeah, I've got some wrecked toe history as well. First trauma came
years ago when a misplaced martial arts kick resulted in toe meeting
wall..... very ouch!

Last month when I was MUni'ing I UPD'ed in a rather unspectular fashion
but did end up in 'push up' position resulting in said long ago injured
toe bending back more than it can actually manage. Again, very ouch!

Foot specialist recommended a foot splint which is really a carbon fibre
plate that is shaped to support the damaged toe and is sandwhiched in an
insole which then can be put in riding shoes.

Wow, now this device works like a hot damn to protect my toe as it will
allow some bend but not to the degree that would cause the toe to be
redamaged. It was pricey but I am pretty stoked about the prevention to
further injury that this offers.

Back from my month of summer holiday travels I am looking forward to
getting back to MUni and using my new carbon fibre toe armour. .. now
if I could just hurry up and get over my jet lag..... .

cheers,
Erin


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[gerblefranklin]

______________________________________________
Erin said:
"I was wearing roach armor - they really don't protect knees too
well."
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Were you wearing dual slalom roaches or full DH? Dual slalom roach pads
have almost no knee protection. Full DH have a layer of plastic over the
knee.

I sprained my to in the most unglaumorus-I can't even spell it-fashion.
I was jumproping and someone made me laugh. I tripped on the rope and
landed with all my weight on my big toe.
That kept me off stilts for a while, and changed my wheelwalking style
pretty drastically, albeit temporarily.


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[treepotato]

i'll join the 'i broke my toe once' club i broke my big toe doing
taekwondo and my little toe it hurts :S


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[chickendog]

sure are a lot of people with jobs out there. I've got broken toe
stories, but find myself w/ too much to do to share them.

Austin Rocks!!!!(sure hurt more than other locales)

We're planning lots of uni fun the first week in February during
JuggleFest.

Mark your calendars now!


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[S_Wallis]

gerblefranklin wrote:
> [B Don't try to run out of the fall, just roll. [/B]

I think that depends on the terrain. Rolling on big pointy rocks is
worse than a broken toe.


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[gerblefranklin]

I ride on slightly smaller than fist sized gravel and very loose dust,
and i can tell you that landing like a sack of bricks on gravel is
painful. If you have a choice between rolling out of a fall and falling
so that you're in a push up position, you should roll because pointy
rocks to the palms hurt. It's all about rider preferance, though. As I
begin riding harder and harder terrain, I'm beginning to stop before I
ride a section where I think I'll fall and plan how I'll ride the
section and how I'll fall. I much prefer to run out of an UPD than roll,
but sometimes it's safer to roll. I'm starting to decide that the best
idea though is to handle terrain and falls on a case by case basis, and
not even attempt to make a blanketing statement as to how one should
fall, because every fall's different.

My slightly more than 2 cents.


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[onefiftyfour]

When I don't get to run out of a UPD, I never get the option of rolling
or flopping. It just happens very quickly.

-Eric


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[unibabyguy]

I've fallen badly once on that trail, but I just bruised my wrist and
skinned my elbow. I saw this very rocky section ahead, and started to
walk it because it looked too hard for me. It had a lot of rocks that
would catch your pedals and send you flying. Then I asked myself, would
Scott W. or Eric ride this section? Of course they would! So I went
back to the start of the section, got back on the Uni and started
riding.

My tire got wedged into some rocks and it stopped dead just as my
forward pedal was at the 11 o'clock position while I was pushing hard on
it. I went down on my hands, elbows, and knees. I closed my mouth in
anticipation of hitting my teeth on the rocks.

I've been lucky to not have any other bad falls there. I often come
away from that trail bruised and exhausted. It's probably one of the
best Muni trails in Austin.


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[S_Wallis]

unibabyguy wrote:
> * would Scott W. or Eric ride this section? *

I don't think that is a good plan, Doug. Eric and I each have an
unenviable list of injuries. Better just use your own judgement.;)

Scott


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[jugglerobaby]

i normaly dont wear protection. on the rides i have been doing with
eric and Aj but since this has all happened i have come to think that
protection is good cuz waching other pple go rilling down a ricky
imbankment just makes me cring. I have yet to break any thing thoe i
have scraped my hands a few times. Brused my thumb in uni hocky and one
time managed to dismount backwards but the hil i was on was to dusty so
i lost my footing and landed on a nice sharp rock that staped perty deep
in to my palm. At which point the was promtly filled with dirt and
gravel from the continued sliding down the hill. Had the doc check that
one she said with deep woonds that you need ot keep the woond open so as
to heal from the inside to push out all the crap.

Lastly if you ride off rode make shure you have your tetnus(spelling)
shot cuz if you cut your self on rocks and dirt thatis where that stuff
lives

Nate


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[onefiftyfour]

Klaas Bil wrote:
> *... I do have toe armour as well
> because I usually ride with safety shoes which have a steel insert at
> the toe end.
> *


I saw some steel toed shoes yesterday that I was considering. They were
not as heavy as I was thinking they would be. They make steel-toed
shoes that look like running shoes. I like to have my riding shoes with
soles that are flat and treadless. That's why I was using bmx shoes. I
wonder if someone makes steel-toed bmx shoes.

-Eric


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