What you do is 'another form of self-harm'

[TKD_Andy]

haha, this is what my doctor said the other week when i went for a routine checkup, and he asked if i did any sports.

I told him about my gym routine and tricking, and he said it was just another form of self-harm!

As i thought, as soon as i showed him the problems with my neck (doesnt turn properly one way), my shoulder (doesnt stay in its socket) and my jaw (cracks every time i yawn), he turfed me off to the physio.

And now that appointment is on monday! haha i wonder how bad theyre gonna make it look...

[jiayo-chris]

How dare they!

[compleks]

Doctors are generally pretty poor at treating sporting injuries.

[TKD_Andy]

haha tell me about it, my gf was told her back injury was 'soft tissue damage' when in fact her sacrum wasnt fixed to the bone below in her spine.

[tuareg]

haha tell me about it, my gf was told her back injury was 'soft tissue damage' when in fact her sacrum wasnt fixed to the bone below in her spine.

Haha wow.


I had my leg injury more than a year ago, and the doc told me to put some real fucking cheap gel on it. He didnt even look at it. Then we went to a more professional doctor and it turned out that i had partial tendon rupture haha:ouch:

[Steve]

Whoa what a monster! *standing up in front of the computer clapping*

[AndyD11]

yea doctors are basically there to tell you to go a specialist and what part of your body is wrong haha. the specialist doctors and physio's and stuff are the people who actually knoe what they are talking about :P

[anerky]

Maybe the doctors have seen so many ridiculous injuries coming in that they can't take most people seriously anymore. My dad, a doctor, comes home everyday with stories of people going into ER because they dropped a cookie tray on their foot, or felt drowsy at a time when they usually don't.

I especially enjoy the ones where people are too fat to get in the MRI machine, or can't get out because they plugged it up.

[Ashtar]

Self-harm is done purposefully for attention/sympathy or to get an endorphin rush from pain.

Tricking does not require pain to get a rush, completing the moves is probably better, and glory beats sympathy, it wouldn't make sense to fail on purpose.

[Cory]

I have accepted the idea that I won't be able to walk by time I'm 30 :ouch:

[Ashtar]

Then you can follow Lazy Legs' lead.

[TKD_Andy]

My dad, a doctor, comes home everyday with stories of people going into ER because they dropped a cookie tray on their foot, or felt drowsy at a time when they usually don't.
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good to see he's in keeping with his hippocratic oath...

[Ashtar]

I thought that was 'do no harm'. Nothing harmful laughing at an idiot privately at home with your family, so long as you stitched him up.

Today a box I stacked improperly fell on the back of my head, I hit myself in the face with a box I threw incorrectly and it came back down, all sorts of shit.

I think athleticish stuff is good because it prevents you from going to ER for dumb things like breaking a hip slipping on ice. I guess it could still happen, but you have better balance, so you're more likely to be hurt in your measured training if anything.