Ow...

My 1st reaction was being glad to see the +2 on his foot. I've got to show this one to our ortho professor- he's always going on about people getting hurt doing dangerous stuff!

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It's like being bipolar in opinion is a requirement around here. -TripleThreat

>> I bet that guy wishes he had shaved his legs ;-)

Yah. x2!

If he'd only shaved, he would have brushed this off as a mere scratch! Man, where is my razor?

[sorry, can't do a pink font with Google Chrome...]

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"100% of the people who confuse correlation and causation end up dying."

Oh my! I've got a couple of zippers out of my mishap, maybe a third on the way, but all of a sudden I'm feeling very fortunate. Let us know how they do in recovery.

I've been there. One of the more painful experiences I've had in my life.

I thought the same about the stick with no significant amount of tissue or blood on it.

Would think it would have gone from anterior to posterior...because of a) direction of travel a cyclist is usually going, and b) that knobby part of the stick on the part anterior to his leg would have torn the wound up if coming posterior to anterior.

So...how did at leat 12 inches of stick get through to the back without more blood?
Unless he went into quick vasoconstriction (plausible).

And rroof...from your original post, I realize you deal in feet and not arms, but it's humerus. ;) These accidents are certainly NOT humorous.

Those are some grisly ass pixs. It almost defies logic that a stick (branch?) that big could go clean through your shin like that.....

All the best for his recovery :)

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"I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: 'This could be interesting'."

Sweet... ortho/trauma guys always get the good stuff.

Nothing fun ever happens in the primary care office... aside from the guy infarcting in front of my eyes for a second time last week (no, it really wasn't fun).

I wish him a speedy and healthy recovery. He needs to make posters out of those photos!

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Come crawling faster

riding through the woods yesterday, i looked at all the downed branches a little more warily...

freaky.

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KING OF THE ROAD SAYS YOU MOVE TOO SLOW

Yeah, mine was; "Damn, we've got some hot ER nurses in Ohio."

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I thought my shin splints hurt from my marathon yesterday, I have nothing on this guy.

http://www.mtbmadness.com/pasttrips.html

Oh and the confirmation is that the "flat edges are from where the paramedics (or whoever picked him up) sawed off the even bigger branch". So, a eight foot piece of lumber found its way through a dudes leg, and the paramedics cut it down to four foot.......................come on?!

It does look awesome though............

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Spend enough time in an ED, and you find out how much real life resembles movie special effects sometimes. Makes for great gory war stories to bring up during meals.

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Ironic screen name from an anonymous poster. Figures.

I suppose we staged an entire ER room as well for the "photo op"

I'll just flag you as the local asshole and leave it at that since this is a friend of mine. Love your reply to the scientist (AC) when he posts data too that you also "know better"

Now F-off

Sorry, takes a bit to get my riled, but it IS personal here. Hope to NOT see you in the ED some day ...

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Nice. You've managed to do something I've never seen before. Pissed off Rod Roof. I can get some secondhand confrmation of this if you want since I live about 45 minutes away and ride with these guys regularly?

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Wow - that is a little out of character for you.

I actually chuckling a little, thinking that someone wouldn't believe that a guy who fixes broken people would have some pretty amazing photos now and again.

BTW, if you've got a way to post the films, that might help to convince the skeptical. (Of course, I'm probably the only nerd here who's interested in seeing them.)

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Good Grief !! I'm staying out of the woods !

Let us know how he's doing......

Poor fella !

I apologise for my insensitivity............I will now F-off for the evening...........

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For more details visit:

http://www.ride-strong.com/...t-view-with-caution/

Freak "accidents" sometimes defy logic. I once came into work when I was a resident anesthesiologist and there was a fellow waiting to go into surgery that had a pool cue jammed into his nose and up into his brains. It had been sawed off but he is lying there on the gurney with abut 8 inches of pool cue in his head and only about an inch showing out his nose. Incredibly it missed everything important (although it is not clear based upon why he was in the situation that caused this to occur that there was a lot of "important" stuff up there to protect) and he walked out of the hospital pretty much the way he was.

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God, Rod, i don't know what to say! that is just absolutely horrible. i will read on the G4B to catch up on all of this, i can't believe it.

what an outright bummer to have all of this go down. :( !!!

be careful everybody, accidents DO happen!!!

are you violating hippa? not that i care, i do it all the time i think. would love to see some films of it.

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WTF that poor SOB is the Phineas Gage of cycling!!

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That's so weird because my chauffeur was playing cricket in the backyard with my butler and the ball nailed him in his thigh and is now permanently stuck on his leg.

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i do not know the rider, but i have been on that bike path as recently as this weekend with my gf, and also right after the storm (no power for 4 days --> boredom --> cruise the trail). as to the credibility of the photo, i can certainly attest to the condition of the trail as making the accident possible. (also, why would rod lie about this?)

so here's my little contribution for the non-believers:

even as recently as sunday, there were hundreds of medium sized branches on the side of the trail between milford and loveland. i didn't see any on the trail itself, but if you strayed off in the right spot, you could easily end up with a shin full of tree similar to that photo.

a few days after the storm (a few weeks ago), there were trees and branches all over the place. i had to cyclocross probably 10 downed trees that covered the entire path, and there were countless branches and sticks that i had to bunnyhop/avoid. from what i can gather, the incident took place on sep. 23-ish, which would put it about a week after the storm, and a few days after my ride.

here's to a speedy recovery for that guy, and especially for the fractured skull guy. stay safe out there, everyone.

Interesting mechanism:

25 mph forward motion of rider +/- forward motion of pedalling leg, branch kicked up by rider in front so pinned under that rider's tire, branch hits lower leg perpendicular, along the lateral anterior surface of the tibia, probably angled slightly medially, hits the tibia (glancing) and deflects laterally into and through/between the tissues. Lower leg held firmly in place by pedal and flexed knee. Voila.

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