How many bones have you broken😣? Aka who has the most fractures?

[JimE]

Hmmm. Not sure what to put down. When you have multiple fractures of the same bone, for example a compression fracture of the femur from being hit by a left turner, does that count as one fracture or each bit? What about shatters? Let's say you shattered a tibia, then it stuck out and ground down, the repair being a donor bone from the hip and a plate to bridge it all. How do you count that? Is the bone graft factored in there someplace?

 

[moto-rama]

Just curious the most fractures in a single moto accident here on BARF.

I will start 6 fractures, from 1 accident.

2 fractures right hip, fractured the left hip, L4, L5, S1.

radius
ulna
triquetrum
hamate
lunate dislocation (not fractured)
2 metatarsals
1 giant dislocation (radius from hand)

= 6.3 (I'm assigning .3 for the dislocation)

Just think, I was wearing Helimot gloves, so it could've been worse.

 

[Mid-packer]

Hmmm. Not sure what to put down. When you have multiple fractures of the same bone, for example a compression fracture of the femur from being hit by a left turner, does that count as one fracture or each bit? What about shatters? Let's say you shattered a tibia, then it stuck out and ground down, the repair being a donor bone from the hip and a plate to bridge it all. How do you count that? Is the bone graft factored in there someplace?

I counted multiple breaks of shattered ankle as 1. But I counted ribs individually.
But your example seems a little more complicated than that !

 

[ZCrow]

Wait we are counting ribs? I thought those were a freebee. :teeth

 

[motomania2007]

I've broken many bones if you count all the cracked ribs and separated ribs and separated shoulder and torn shoulder dislocated fingers broken fingers and toes. actual broken bones about 8 not counting numerous cracked ribs

 

[OldBlade]

I boiled my elbows for several hours and made a laughing stock.

 

[motomania2007]

I boiled my elbows for several hours and made a laughing stock.

Prolly tastes funny

 

[Gixxergirl1000]

Broke a rib, a finger, and a goddamn fake nail when I crashed on a race weekend.
Broken ribs suck. Another racer told me "laughing will hurt... coughing will suck... but sneezing?? That's the devil's work!!"
I remember thinking at the time that he was being just a little bit dramatic.
Until I went back to work... and someone came in from the shop, and tracked a bunch of sawdust past my desk... and I sneezed...
And then spent the next five minutes crying at my desk, sobbing "it's the devil's work!!!" :laughing

Video of the crash below from a pitmate's rearward facing camera. I had a mechanical, got off the race line, and when I tipped in to T6, the back end stepped out and dropped off the lip of the track. What you don't see is me ragdolling at about 80mph behind my bike... which is a lot like getting beat by the planet at 80mph...


youtu.be/tnCeFU5R2yY

 

[Mid-packer]

Broken ribs are no laughing matter

 

[CocoLoco]

I had my worst get off a little over three years ago and broke an elbow and a bone in each foot. Probably broke something in my hands as well but didn't get xray for confirmation so they don't count. My left thumb has been nagging me something awful for the past two days. It's either a remnant of that accident or arthritis is finally setting in.

Funny thing about the accident: I strained my chest muscles and went in for an xray after a few days because I complained about prolonged pain there and the doc wanted to make sure nothing else was broken. Nothing broken...but I had a highside a few years before and thought I'd walked away unscathed; the xray showed I had three broken ribs very close to the spine that had healed a bit out of alignment.

 

[Gixxergirl1000]

Broken ribs are no laughing matter

No lie... don't want to go down that road again any time soon... geezus…

 

[Burg-Mann]

Many sprains and road rash from multiple mc get offs. Off track and on. No broken bones. Most serious was bruised kidneys and pissing blood for a couple of days in 2003. I brought a gsxr 600 and a 1000 to the track. Got off the 600 and switched to the 1000 and gave it The same amount of throttle out of a corner. Had a highside on the infamous turn 11 at thunder hill on a 2002 gsxr1000 (wayyyy before traction control):laughing:cool

 

[OldMadBrit]

Skull, collar bone 3 times, 1-3 ribs twice, index finger, thumb, ankle 3 times, both knees. Only one of these (ankle) was on a motor cycle everything else was skiing, mountain biking or windsurfing.

 

[EastBayDave]

Lost count many decades ago.

I'm tired of breaking ribs; seems to be the most PITA bones.

 

[sprorchid]

Bump. Mike this is for u.

 

[JimE]

I dunno how to vote this one. When stuff shatters and they take chunks out of your hip and bridge the missing gap (like in the case of my tibia), then scrape the bits in a pile and cross their fingers: how would you count that?

 

[sprorchid]

I was just reading Connie's post, and I got the chills when I read 'sneeze'.

Man who would thot sneezing would hurt the most.


As for shattering a bone, et al....

We should come up with a rubric or point system.

U know 1 point for a simple or hairline fracture, 2 points for 2 fractures in the same bone or compound fracture.

I say 5 points for an open fracture.

I think skull fractures should get exponential fractures....

 

[ctwo]

What about ligament tears?

 

[afm199]

I always believed I had never "broken" a bone, aside from a couple cracked ribs.

Last time I had my hand xrayed, the doc said: "Wow, I count six breaks on that one."

Then he said: "Don't worry, no new ones."

 

[treelogger]

For me, zero on a motorcycle (but I don't ride on-road, only dirt, and that not even very much). How do you count it if the surgeon takes all the bone fragments from your finger, puts them on a stainless steel tray, and picks through them to see how to put them together correctly?

Broken ribs suck.

A friend of mine broke a few ribs (and punctured their lung, pneumothorax and all) on a dirt bike, amusingly at 0 mph. They sounded awful when I called on the phone, which worried me. To cheer them up I went to visit, deliver some food, and hang out. So I told them funny stories, and that backfired when they started laughing. Oops.