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What injury/illness have you trained/raced through?

Real rowers don't listen to their doctors' advice. Which of the following have you refused to prevent you getting in a boat?

Prolapsed disc		4%

Food poisoning		27%

Pulled muscle in arse		4%

(Freshers) 'flu		62%

Hamstring strain/pull		23%

Conjunctivitis		4%

Injury sustained in bike accident while going to the boathouse		23%

Quinsy		4%

Hangover		77%

Blood poisoning from septic blister		8%

Nasty bug picked up from drinking Tideway water		8%

Foot and Mouth		15%

Other (please elaborate below)		42%

Total: 26 members' votes

by Dubya - Sun 12th Nov 2006, 6:05pm

Oh dear, I am the only one to have voted and it is more obvious than usual exactly how many silly things I've done! As to "Other" ... pulled lat and strained intercostal should definitely be on there for the many and varied sufferers!

by Dodo - Sun 12th Nov 2006, 7:02pm

*Announces proudly* A phaeochromocytoma

Unfortunately, it will keep me from the boat club dinner :(

by Spud - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 6:39am

I somehow managed to cox winter head with absolutely no voice whatsoever

by RTT - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 8:03am

Spud said: I somehow managed to cox winter head with absolutely no voice whatsoever

Some rowers would consider voiceless coxes a positive boon....

by Grampa - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 10:12am

Dubya said: Oh dear, I am the only one to have voted and it is more obvious than usual exactly how many silly things I've done! [...]

Rubbish! Back in our day, we were lucky if we only had six injured and five ill in our eight, and we would still win. I remember the Robinson Head in 2003 - I was the only one without an ailment at the start of the race (although I dislocated my finger coming past the Railings), and we still beat Caius (by one second). And we liked it like that.

by rjn - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 10:34am

1.tendonitus
2.strange rash which was thought to be chicken pox (checked with crew all of them had had chicken pox)
3. chest infection
4. exhaustion
5. right knee tracking problems
6. shoulder issues

by dw229 - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 10:38am

I tried to do 200 reps on the bench press (a la Hogley) in my 3rd year but failed sometime before that. I discovered the next day I couldn't move either arm beyond the 120-60 degree range at the elbow joint, so I missed my next outing.

Also, I think we're missing lower back injuries on here - pretty sure they must be the main injury?

by dw229 - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 10:39am

P.S. Should have added "when you row like me" to the last line above.

by jpd - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 2:29pm

rjn said: 1.tendonitus
4. exhaustion

1. It's "tendonitis" (or tendinitis), although if it was in your wrist and caused by rowing it's more likely to have been tenosynovitis, often shortened to "teno".</factoid>
4. I'd be more concerned if you'd raced and not experienced this.

by trying to find a way that "six months off" won't prevent me from rowing Lents... - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 2:30pm

Rowing Oxford City Bumps whilst on crutches got us some pretty interesting looks, especially when getting out of the boat and hobbling past the crew we'd just bumped - priceless. :)

by One week before the Mays '06 - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 3:39pm

Rotator cuff tendonitis from ill-fitting Elizabethan body armour. :(

by rjn - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 4:13pm

jpd said: 1. It's "tendonitis" (or tendinitis), although if it was in your wrist and caused by rowing it's more likely to have been tenosynovitis, often shortened to "teno".</factoid>
4. I'd be more concerned if you'd raced and not experienced this.

1. It was caused by novice death grip - fact. I then changed to bow-side.
4. It was actually when I coxed you in that great 2nd Lent VIII that was denied blades by foot and mouth. I think it was caused by staying out in Life 'til 2 and then getting up to cox at 5...

by Dubya - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 4:51pm

29% for food poisoning... Tom and I can't have cooked for all of them...

by BJ - Mon 13th Nov 2006, 5:03pm

One week before the Mays '06 said: Rotator cuff tendonitis from ill-fitting Elizabethan body armour. :(

I can't believe that that wasn't one of the options in the first place - very common injury.

by Ingers - Fri 17th Nov 2006, 5:59pm

There must be some more sprained ankles/strained ankle ligaments out there.

However, I doubt many others suffered their injury in a football match for which they had especially asked the lwt captain permission to miss Saturday training and were told: "OK, as long as you don't get injured". Needless to say i was binned shortly afterwards.

Have also rowed through a b*ggered knee from attempting a stupid ski-jump and a fractured thumb from stupidly deciding to keep wicket without gloves in the BPBC match. Weirldy, I have never injured myself rowing...

by Sergei Bubka - Fri 17th Nov 2006, 6:51pm

Ingers said: I doubt many others suffered their injury in a football match for which they had especially asked the lwt captain permission to miss Saturday training and were told: "OK, as long as you don't get injured".

True, but I did suffer an injury in Athletics Cuppers for which I had especially asked the lwt captain permission to miss Saturday training and was told: "OK, as long as you don't get injured."