Gnarly Xray Images thread

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At Rowen's suggestion, I'll start this thread off (even though I don't have an orange name).

Injury: Compression fractures at T4-5; incomplete spinal cord lesion.
How: DH biking. Bounced a landing and got tossed head-first into a tree.
When: October 2010
Surgeon work: spinal fusion T2-T8. Two rods, 12 screws + cadaver bone to help vertebrae fuse. (permanent)
Time to back on skis: 3 months, 7 days.

Injury: Broken femur.
How: DH biking. Overshot a big jump and landed flat.
When: September 2005
Surgeon work: 1 rod, 3 screws (removed after 6 months)
Time to back on skis: 10 weeks.

MattyB has a great one to share! I know there are more.

Jan 13 2011 9:44AM

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athompson4

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dude thats gnarly, your a trooper im guess DH is your off season resort from skiing

Jan 13 2011 9:53AM

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Jooky

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Jesus H Dude.....be safe!

Jan 13 2011 9:54AM

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TWoods

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HOLY SHIT, that's some hardware!

Jan 13 2011 10:12AM

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N.L.

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my jaw is still hanging from my face...DH is insane, those pics are gnar. respect

Jan 13 2011 10:16AM

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I_Am_Mod

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are you still allowed on airports with so much hardware in your body ?!

also, goddamn rapid recovery times dude!

you must really love skiing to be that soon back on the planks, +k !!

Jan 13 2011 10:16AM

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Jan 13 2011 10:21AM

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Man your beat to shit. That's some crazy shit in your back

Jan 13 2011 10:27AM

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Yes I really love skiing. Believe it or not, airport scanners don't pick this stuff up. They are only strong enough (read: expose us to enough radiation) to pick up just below the skin. I travel a lot and haven't been stopped once, even on international flights.

I don't want to be the only one posting images here. Who else has something?

Jan 13 2011 10:32AM

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you are damn lucky to be all ok after that.

i'm curious to see if anyone goes off in metal detectors.

Jan 13 2011 10:32AM

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to right,

Jan 13 2011 10:35AM

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Well crap I guess I can't upload pics anymore, blocked from filehosting, and the Insert media gives me an error.

I though my back was bad, that is just crazy.

But here is mine (link below), 6 screws, 2 rods, L4-L5-S1 spine fusion, as with the op cadaever bone was used in between the vertebrae to fuse them.

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/content/pictures/id/399680/

Jan 13 2011 10:52AM

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Wish i had a side view like the OP's, really want to see what my hardware looks like from that angle. Forgot to say the surgery was in July of 2009.

Question, someone else above said it too, but do you (OP) set off metal detectors at the airport? I have not traveled since my surgery, was just curious if I was going to set them off.

Jan 13 2011 10:56AM

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Jan 13 2011 11:04AM

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well damn ha thats a lot of screws and such.

i got one of my ankle that I shattered a few years back, only needed 2 screws and they got taken out like a year later, now I got em in a little baggie in my room :)

Jan 13 2011 11:16AM

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Mines not that gnarly, just pretty rare: broken shoulderblade

Jan 13 2011 11:56AM

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OH...MAH...GOSH........GNARLY

Jan 13 2011 11:59AM

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Friend slipped and shot a nail through his knee cap.

Jan 13 2011 12:05PM

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oh fuck, through the kneecap... that would hurt like a mofo

Jan 13 2011 12:19PM

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^^^ holy shitfuck.

This along with a destroyed miniscus is what happens when snowboarders decide to talk fashion on the landing of a 35 foot step up.

Jan 13 2011 12:23PM

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holllyy shit! /mah threads.

Jan 13 2011 12:29PM

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Jan 13 2011 1:00PM

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ectreeskier11

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the before on the last one

Jan 13 2011 1:01PM

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P_Steezy

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my threads.... these are gnarly!

Jan 13 2011 1:10PM

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Op your gnarly as fuck

Jan 13 2011 2:10PM

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i.ski.NC

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Gee whilikers those are some serious boo boos.

Jan 13 2011 2:16PM

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threads

Jan 13 2011 2:21PM

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threadz

Jan 13 2011 2:23PM

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gnarrr photos. My broken wrist photo wasnt as ganr as those ones haha

Jan 13 2011 2:57PM

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OP, what vertebrae did the surgeon fuse? did you have any nerve damage associated with the injury?

Jan 13 2011 3:10PM

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damn theres some gnarly shit in here! i wish i had a pic of my back to upload, its off by 35 degrees

Jan 13 2011 3:33PM

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As it says in the op, I have a spinal fusion from T2-T8.
I definitely have nerve damage and am left with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-S%C3%A9quard_syndrome
my left side below my lowest rib has problems sensing cold and pain. On my right leg I have clonus, a type of muscle spasm reaction issue.

But when it first happened, I couldn't feel my legs. Sooo fucked up. I am more than lucky. It continues to help a bunch knowing how others such as CR Johnson, Kevin Pearce, etc prevailed following traumatic injuries and doing initial rehabbing at the same facility I was in (U of U inpatient rehab).

Jan 13 2011 3:49PM

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i have a plate and screws now

Jan 13 2011 4:29PM

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Jan 13 2011 4:40PM

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Not that gnarly but pretty interesting-looking I'd say

Jan 13 2011 5:13PM

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Jan 13 2011 6:33PM

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wait what?

Jan 13 2011 6:43PM

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i dunno if this is the same guy but it's very close

like, 6 years ago my mom did surgery on a man who was using a nail gun, hit a knot, and popped the gun up into his face breaking his jaw.

after they re-set his jaw and sent him on his way he came back 2 weeks later complaining of a terrible pain in his sinuses. they did a full xray on his skull and found a 16d nail in his face.

looked just like this my mom brought the xray home

Jan 13 2011 6:49PM

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My Brother's broken collarbone.

Jan 13 2011 6:51PM

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sooo going in my threads.

Jan 13 2011 6:53PM

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Jan 13 2011 7:00PM

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knuckled a backflip and fell on my shoulder. fucking sucked.

Jan 13 2011 7:03PM

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eheath

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Not that bad but id thought id add. This happened in 2007 got hit by a pitch while playing baseball, directly into my right ring finger. Ouch.

Jan 13 2011 7:19PM

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haha looks like you made gang signs for the x ray.

a kid i worked with got hit in the face with a hit baseball. he's got lots of fake teeth now and can't taste anything or really feel stuff in his mouth.

Jan 13 2011 7:45PM

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wish i had a good picture of my xray.

but ive had a plate in my leg for 5 years and have yet to set off an airport metal detector. they use special metal so that your body cant break it down which also means it wont set off alarms. i guess it works.

Jan 13 2011 8:02PM

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