El Duderino X

EDIT: Damn it, Trauma, that should read trauma! Sorry... .

Howdy, folks!

So, a few of you may have read this thread I posted a while back. Nearly two months ago, to be exact.

We all ride bikes and we're all bipedal hominids facing the same daily threats so my thinking is that we all share similar cycling related injuries and maladies.
My question is this: how many of you who have had the misfortune to run into something solid, solid enough that your down tube was slammed into your inner knee with enough force to do injury (not "Oooow, that hurts!" sort-of-hurt but REAL trauma, tearing, breaking, snapping of connective tissue, muscle, ligaments, tendon, minimum of 5+ out of 10 on your personal pain scale (1 being the least pain you've ever experienced and 10 being the most), that sort of thing)? How long were you hurting and how did you rehab?

I ask since it has been several weeks since my own accident. I can weight bear on the affected leg, no problem, no pain. I can even walk, jog, run and bike but my knee still aches and there is still some deformity (@ the tibial collateral ligament) My Range of Movement (ROM) is good but it hurts like HELL to crouch/squat and stretch the quadriceps on the affected leg. Also getting irregular bits of soft-tissue pain around the affected area.

My doctor thought I may have sprained the knee but I'm about 99% sure that this isn't the case.
About me: BC OFA III, currently still licensed as an EMR with several years experience dealing with a whole host of other people's pre-hospital medical issues (ie I'm not a hypochondriac nor do I have a delicate pain threshold).

Thanks for the input and safe riding, everyone.

unterhausen

fixed your title

bummer about your leg. I'm an engineer, not a medical expert, so all I can say is I hope it heals up soon

jsdavis

I've been fortunate to so far not have any incidents, but I've had many many close calls. The most dangerous areas is ironically a bike lane and one particular intersection where I've been nearly hit by left turning cars again ironically while I am traveling on a bike lane.

Just in the past week or two:

Riding in segregated bike lane, another commuter on a road bike passes me. Just then a SUV making an illegal U-turn injects itself through an opening in the wall of cars and entirely into the bike lane until the wheels hit the curb. The buffer is about 1m wide at that point and the bike lane is roughly 2m. The roadie narrow misses getting hit from the side. I stopped and missed the SUV maybe 5 cm from the door and nearly went OTB.

Riding in the same segregated bike lane, kid darts into the bike lane from between two cars. I saw the dad, but the kid is short enough that I cannot see him until he walks out in front of me. Had to stop and avoided him by about 20-30cm. I remember I locked up my back wheel because it was fishtailing.

Again in the same segregate bike lane, dad walks girl across the bike lane and places her in the grass in the curb and walks back to the car with a group of other people. Dad turns back to go back to the car. Girl decides to chase him and runs into the bike lane again. Missed the girl by about 50cm.

Busy shopping area lady was looking to the right from the curb while I was approaching from her left. When I was maybe 2m from her, she decides to run out past the parallel parked cars and into my path still looking to the right. Maybe she is from another country like HK or something, I have no idea. She only noticed me because of my squealing disc brakes and the look of horror on her face and she just stood there. She at most 15m to the nearest crosswalk where there is a 4-way stop.