Kragg

Here's the result of my Wed nite crash mentioned in this post. https://www.bikeforums.net/road-cycling/581009-man-gonna-hurt-tomorrow.html I wanted to show off my epic bruise.

chadteck

Eh... that is one hell of a bruise. Also, I'm pretty sure I wish I hadn't seen this.

eippo1

This is one of those times I wish for a different thread structure. Unsee unsee. Heal up, though - that looks nasty.

TVS_SS

ahh my eyes! this thread needs some sort of warning!!

North of You

Sure you didn't just sit on a Pomegranate? Looks to me like the same colour.

perryw

That's about the biggest bruise I've ever seen

kneed2wrydemore

Looks rough.

I read your previous post. Shooting that grass (along with a lawnmower wheel) out in the road and not cleaning it up is pretty irresponsible. I'd be giving his homeowners insurance agent a call.

Good luck healing.

Oops, I just reread your post. It seems the grass was growing/speading into the road and not shot out into the road by a lawnmower. My bad. Wonder how the lawmower wheel got there?

Very bad break.....Heal fast....

jasrub

I had a wipeout about two weeks ago and I had almost the exact bruise, but it extended even further down the side of my leg. I figured mine was so bad because I am on Plavix and baby aspirin. The good news is that it will go away, mine is almost gone but still hurts like a mofo

MONGO!

Here's how crash injury hierarchy goes, from low to high:
Bruises-road rash-broken bones.

It's a big bruise but I'd take it over the alternative.

mzeffex 

Hope you don't sleep on that side normally

z415

Looks like something the Hubble Space Telescope found in space.

Get well soon.

Lykolate

Ice...Ice...Baby. Seriously though...Ice that ****, Atleast 20 minutes 2 or 3 times a day if you can. For a big meaty spot I would that you could even go with 30 minutes of ice. Ice bag, no towel or paper towels between the skin and ice. Let me reiterate that, DIRECT SKIN CONTACT WITH ICE Lots of people out there think it could cause frostbite that fast...Your going to get 4 major sensations with the ice, and they will go in this order, Cold -> Burning -> Aching -> Numb...You must let it reach the Numb stage...You are allowed to ice multiple times a day, but the area must return to normal body temperature before you can ice again.

FR4NCH1SE

That is a huge contusion, I fell of my bike over the week too, I hit a mail box and slide on my leg, some road rash but everything works like it should. Did 7 miles today.

mr.korea85

Holy hell. It's like, you painted your leg with paint then decided to go crazy with a hammer and whack yourself! You could fit half of New Zealand on that bad boy.

Must hurt something special.

Element GT

Damn dude! What kind of wedding did you crash again??

cyclefreaksix

I've seen similar bruising. It was on a corpse, but very similar.

botto 

what compels people to post images of wounds on a bike forum?

JoeB14

I had a bruise like that after my bike crash last year. Certain movements were excruciatingly painful-like tearing of flesh. Heal up soon.

ColorChange

OMB lol comments. Heal fast.

scotch

don't wear your thong to the beach till that beast clears up.

cshell

Although I like seeing road rash and bruises, myself. (Sick and twisted).

But here's my opinion of the answer to that question.

bob the nailer

Did you have an X-ray? Seriously if you are not were not taking aspirin, I would suggest you consider going and having an xray to be sure you didn't chip your hip bone or something like that, that's an awful lot of bruising for just a soft tissue trauma injury. And wow I had no idea icing was so scientific, I just put it on and leave it, the principle being the cold decreases the blood flow and therefore the swelling. What is the advantage to letting the tissue warm up then icing again?

Kragg

This type of post is not intended to shock, but to warn of the dangers of road biking. In this case, a danger that was hidden and not even discovered until the damage was done. Be careful out there !!!! As soon as my rump can handle the saddle I'll be hitting the road again.......

Nachoman

I bet you'll be aching for at least a week or two.

Lykolate

Not waiting for the tissue to warm up again can cause necrosis of tissue (frost bite), and it can also cause nerve damage...

These are the scientific reasons or benefits of icing:
1. Vasoconstriction at cellular level
2. Decreased cell metabolism
3. Decreased capillary permeability
4. Decreased pain (nerve conduction) > Gate control – cold inhibits pain transmission
5. Inflammatory mediators & prostaglandin synthesis inhibited

Here are some future reasons for anybody here on when they should or shouldn't ice themselves...
Indications................................... ......Contraindications
Acute or Chronic Pain .................... ....... Decreased Cold sensitivity and or hypersensitivity
Acute or Chronic Muscle Spasm........ .......Cold Allergy/cold-induced urticaria
Acute inflammation or injury ............ ...... Circulatory or sensory impairment
Postsurgical pain and edema ................... Raynauld’s phenomenon
Neuralgia ............................................ Advanced diabetes
Superficial first-degree burns ..................Hypertension
----Used with exercises to:---- ............. Uncovered open wounds
-----Relieves pain ................................Cardiac or respiratory disorders
-----Decrease muscle spasticity............. Nerve Palsy
-----Facilitates mobilization ................... Arthritis
...........................................................Lupus


I'm not copy and pasting this stuff from wikipedia FYI, these are notes from my first semester as an Athleic Training student.