Member of the Month

profa_212
July, 2025

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

Gnarly Xray Images thread

profile picture
snomaster
Posts: 3348 - Karma: 5,783
At Rowen's suggestion, I'll start this thread off (even though I don't have an orange name).

Click for larger image
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.

Click for larger image
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.
15 years ago
24 1
profile picture
TijmenDal
Posts: 4849 - Karma: 1,296
Haha, fucking awesome!
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
ILLinoisance
Posts: 3527 - Karma: 5,398
Click for larger image
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
ryman
Posts: 113 - Karma: 21
Click for larger image

Posterior Left Hip Dislocation (right side of image - that ball should be in that socket)
how it happened - Jelly Wrestling
Did it hurt - Fkn Oath it did.

sorry about the lack of quality
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Inline.
Posts: 4424 - Karma: 432
just a question. whats OP
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
gnarles.
Posts: 2587 - Karma: 130
original poster
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
BIT
Posts: 112 - Karma: 11
yes i just up chucked my dinner, thanks. and good luck with recovery...thats some tough shit.
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
B.Aussie
Posts: 5852 - Karma: 4,531
@ Rowen that's crazy! Will the bruising ever go away?
@ Matty all I can say is wow. Is there link to the story on that one?

All in all I'm super thankful that I've only ever done my ACL and fractured both ankles with no surgery and some ligament damage nothing as crazy as these x-rays. Touch wood. + Vibes to all of you that haven't healed yet.
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Ethan.G
Posts: 1166 - Karma: 465
Click for larger image

spiral femur fracture. i overshot and over rotated a jump skiing, my skis got caught and twisted my leg causing it to snap. i could wiggle the top part of my leg without moving the rest of my leg below the fracture.

and two months later due to my stupidity, i went on a trampoline and re-fractured it, bending the pins about 45 degrees. the doctors said that they're not supposed to be able to bend, so they put even bigger pins in and they are still here. i don't ever notice them and often forget that they're there so it's pretty good.

Click for larger image
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
k-fred
Posts: 5363 - Karma: 1,598

thats not xray but its gnarly,this happen after i received a trampoline spring in my eye...

take 3 months to get back to skiing.I had an iris cerclage surgery.i can barely see of this eye now but i still have luck that it didnt blow up my eye.

Click for larger image

14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Broseph_Stalin
Posts: 3745 - Karma: 179
my lord.
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25444 - Karma: 13,856
WHY WERE YOU ON A TRAMPOLINE 2 MONTHS LATER. Christ that sucks, but seriously, what were you thinking?

Brooke, bruises are gone, but the rock hit left a lot of scarring on the back of my leg. Also have the fun frankenstein lookin sites on my leg from the surgery, traction pins, etc, little incisions with dots on the side from the staples. Ask me next time you see me, I'll show you some scars.
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Ethan.G
Posts: 1166 - Karma: 465
I was so chapped I wasn't able to do anything that when I could walk almost normally I thought I'd be fine to go on the tramp. It didn't help that my parents were on vacation and couldn't stop me, and I ruined their vacation. I felt terrible for that more than anything.
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Panchuk
Posts: 1610 - Karma: 362
I almost threw up...
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Jaznewt
Posts: 919 - Karma: 1,686
Click for larger imageClick for larger imageClick for larger imageClick for larger image

Broke my collar bone into 4 pieces at Mt Bachelor, screwed em together with a titanium plate. Now filming at Hood and working at MHSSC.
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
californiagrown
Posts: 9794 - Karma: 2,014
So you dislocated your finger? and didnt pop it back in yourself?
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
J.S.
Posts: 359 - Karma: 74
No broken bones here but I thought i should share this.

I undershot a road gap and this was the end result.

Click for larger image

Click for larger image



14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
RudyGarmisch
Posts: 25444 - Karma: 13,856
Gaurdrail to the knee?
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
DockEllis
Posts: 1131 - Karma: 1,745
I knew I'd find you in this thread haha, hell of a trip I'd say
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Felix..TG
Posts: 425 - Karma: 273
I broke my calcaneus on the spring time this season, its been 2 months and a half without puting pressure on it. Going to start "walking" with a crutch next monday. Skiing accident, hit a knuckle real bad.

BEFORE
side view
Click for larger image

AFTER
side view
Click for larger image
under the foot
Click for larger image
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
sodly no x ray pics.
Click for larger image

I'm laying on my right side. my ankles twisted 45 degrees facing straight up.
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Deluge
Posts: 4402 - Karma: 822
wow
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
RICK_ROSS
Posts: 6983 - Karma: 3,341
i dont like this tread.
14 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Pudge
Posts: 3718 - Karma: 3,117
Was looking at some really boring X-rays in Anatomy today, and thought of this thread. It's been nearly 2 years, I am sure NS has hurt themselves many more times.

No X-ray anymore but my right index was crushed between a steak and a sledge hammer. My finger was hanging on. My geat grampa, God bless him, hooked me up with some towels and duct tape and said we needed to finish, so we did!

The man was shot in the battle of the Bulge, I thought finishing a fence wouldn't be that bad!
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
powderdrunkie
Posts: 2034 - Karma: 976
Click for larger image

yes sir
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
yuck
Posts: 8384 - Karma: 2,090
OP compound fractured femur... ten weeks till back on skis? i had a similar tib/fib compound fracture and with physio it was about 8 months before I could run again due to the atrophy in my leg.

thats not fair
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
KLovelace
Posts: 2118 - Karma: 289
there should be a 'pictures of people's expressions while looking at gnarly xray images thread' thread.


this shit is gnarly as hell!
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
pussy_puncher
Posts: 194 - Karma: 69
Weird... No pictures of of the toy truck up ryan dunns ass
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Pudge
Posts: 3718 - Karma: 3,117
4th post on this very page, but I want some real x-rays.
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Jooky
Posts: 1239 - Karma: 37

Click for larger image

Click for larger image

Click for larger image

Cliff drop to rocks, don't know what happened, blacked out.  Broke my elbow, pinky, gash in forehead and broken teeth.  Gotta love Big Sky in the spring...

13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Goku
Posts: 8119 - Karma: 4,223
Backside 5 in the pipe, flat landed on the deck then fell into the bottom. Dislocated my shoulder. Fucking sucked
Click for larger image
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
UncleBadTouch
Posts: 40 - Karma: 10
Looking at that makes my shoulder hurt, holy balls
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
FroesenSkeeze
Posts: 638 - Karma: 673
Is there a picture of the jump and/or tree that you hit, and what resort were you at? I was doing some DH in BC this year, but I didn't come out looking like that! That's insane, but putting it in perspective, 3 months is pretty quick to be on skis again, so you're very lucky.
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
3rik
Posts: 549 - Karma: 1,651
Broke my humerus last week at keystone on a rail, not so humorous.

Two plates and about 20 screws.

13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
FroesenSkeeze
Posts: 638 - Karma: 673
I CAN'T HANDLE THOSE EYE PICTURES! FUCK SAKES!!!
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
schusson
Posts: 442 - Karma: 593
my buddy would be a legend in this thread. overshot a 45 foot jump, he went 120+ feet. shattered his pelvis and came less than 1mm away from being paralyzed
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
drohze
Posts: 1 - Karma: 14
Click for larger image
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Zildijan92
Posts: 9 - Karma: 10
file://localhost/Users/willmitchell/Desktop/IMG_1063.JPG
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
JackRyan.
Posts: 170 - Karma: 64
wish i could find the xray of my gun shot, right through the foot and bone, pretty gruesome and agonizing. theres still metal floating aaround, they didnt wanna take it out.
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
crab_pretzel
Posts: 3919 - Karma: 622
ahhhhh fuck. and do you mean 90 degrees if youre on your side?

and powderdrunkie, that looks horrific. story?
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Mrvic.
Posts: 1033 - Karma: 154
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/403099_3135379024575_272590491_n.jpg
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
PNSkier
Posts: 775 - Karma: 169
No x-rays but on this particular injury, I overshot a jump we built on loveland pass back in 2008. landed flat, majorly, busted 4 teeth, shattered my jaw bone, and split my lip wide open.

5 minutes after fall

Click for larger image

after 2 hour initial piecing back together

Click for larger image

day after

Click for larger image

and a few weeks after

Click for larger image


13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Mrvic.
Posts: 1033 - Karma: 154
[IMG] https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/403099_3135379024575_272590491_n.jpg [/IMG]
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Mrvic.
Posts: 1033 - Karma: 154
Click for larger image
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Alexpsteeze
Posts: 1 - Karma: 10
Heres mine! Humerus fracture, first run, first jump of the day, overlanded. Didn't get any screws, my arm is still a bit bent at the Humerus.
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Mrvic.
Posts: 1033 - Karma: 154
tore acl, mcl, & meniscus beginning of last season
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
lill_sominsomin
Posts: 131 - Karma: 319
I'm not gonna lie some of this stuff scares the shit out of me. Ever since i broke my collarbone like 5 years back I've always wondered, has anyone else who has done that gotten the feeling like there was a blowtorch on your collarbone when it broke?
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
Cbathgate
Posts: 44 - Karma: 9
Click for larger image

Broke my forearm pretty bad in September 2011, at Bounce in Whistler
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
coldcuts69
Posts: 3718 - Karma: 1,889
FUCK.
13 years ago
0 0
profile picture
B.Lyfe
Posts: 624 - Karma: 116
Looks like mine!

the 2 bones actually fused together in mine

Click for larger image
13 years ago
0 0
All times are Eastern (-4); Currently it's 10:02AM