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Aaron
Started 6 Dec 2003. TIB/FIB FX (surgery)
Why I don't like in-line skating - sub-trochanter femur FX...

Aaron_J
Started 7 Dec 2003
As I was talking and having a good time, I decided to sit on the railing of my balcony...

Abby
Started 2 Dec 2007
In the beginning, I was fairly whole...

Adam
Started 9 Dec 2002
A car ran a stop sign...

Adam2
Started 9 Dec 2005
We were in the middle of the scrimmage we do right before we go home, and I say to my self...

Adam_G
Started 6 Dec 2006
As I was running down the hill I tried to make a sharp turn to the right on the wet pavement...

Adena
Started 1 Dec 2003
All was well until the last race of the day...

Adria
Started 3 Dec 2001. TIB spiral/FIB FX, (surgery with HW)
"My leg is broken" she said. I really hoped she was wrong...

Adrienne
Started 6 Dec 2001. TIB/FIB FX torn ligaments (2 surgeries with HW)
I had given blood the day before...

Aggie
Started 4 Dec 2002. TIB FX (surgery with HW)
I headed down the cellar steps with my 17 year old dog in my arms and slipped...

Aimee
Started 3 Dec 2007
I never knew how perilous ice skating was till I crashed this past Valentine's Day...

Al
Started 31 Oct 2004
I couldn't count how many times I have jumped up onto, and down from the pump control panel of our fire truck...

Alan
Started 1 Dec 2005. TIB/FIB FX spiral, right leg
I broke my left tib and fib after a nasty accidental collision on the football pitch ...

Alex
Started 1 Dec 2003
I always try to avoid riding at night, but that night seemed relatively harmless ...

Alex2
Started 8 Dec 2005
I looked all directions and saw an SUV coming up to the stop sign. It was doing about the speed limit and I figured it was going to stop...

Alexis
Started 3 Dec 2002. TIB spiral/FIB FX, (surgery with HW)
It had been nearly a month since we had a decent accumulation of snow, so I decided to forego a trip to Vegas for a nice day on the mountain...

Alexis_H
Started 3 Dec 2006
I slipped on some rubbish and fell down 6 stairs on my way into a London tube station...

Alex_B
Started 2 Dec 2005
January 16 2006 was like any other day in Hawaii...

Alex_E
Started 4 Dec 2004
On the third day of my summer coaching job I went on my break (pun not intended) and was challenged by about thirty 12 year old kids to take them on in a match alongside some of my other colleagues...

Alfred
Started 5 Dec 2005
I fell from a ladder...

Alicia
Started 5 Dec 2006
I live on an old twisty country back road, which means you have no room for error...

Alison
Started 31 Oct 2003
I remember looking at my leg and being relieved that it didn't look like it was bent in an abnormal direction...

Alison_H
Started 10 Dec 2005
A ball was thrown on the trampoline and I landed on it...

Alison_R
Started 7 Dec 2005
I actually made it all the way down to the landing...

Alison_T
Started 8 Dec 2004
We came toward a sharp bend and a car coming in the other direction on the wrong side of the road hit us head on...

Allan
Started 5 Dec 2005
I left my home in Southern California on my motorcycle and began a two-year journey riding around the world. But in Bolivia I came to a stop...

Allen
Started 5 Dec 2000. FIB FX (surgery with HW)
I was running up a hill at a weird angle...

Allison
Started 9 Dec 2006. TIB/FIB spiral FX, (surgery with HW)
I do know a woman who broke her leg in three places auditioning for the Texas Rollergirls...

Alok
Started 31 Oct 2003
And here I was, insisting on going on my motorcycle...

Alyson
Started 3 Nov 2003
It was really slippery from the dew and as I was mounting the bar for my last repitition...

Al_T
Started 1 Nov 2004
I was in the crosswalk, had the light to cross, and a car came down...

Amanda
Started 3 Dec 2004
I decided to go for a hack on my horse and since it was such a nice night I put my trainers on instead of riding boots...

Amanda2
Started 2 Nov 2006
I fell down a hill...

Amber
Started 5 Dec 2004
Recently my DH (devoted husband) was on a 4 wheeling trip...

Amy
Started 4 Dec 2001. TIB FX (surgery with HW)
I didn't vault high enough, and started sliding back down...

Amy2
Started 3 Dec 2006
As I was headed back down the stairs to my office in the basement, with my arms loaded with rubbish...

Amy3
Started 6 Dec 2006
It was the first really nice, warm day in a very long time and a day to be outside...

Amy_B
Started 6 Dec 2004
We were walking in the back entrance of Days Inn when all of a sudden I tripped over something...

Amy_G
Started 2 Dec 2006
It was lightly snowing...

Amy_H
Started 7 Dec 2006. TIB/FIB FX both legs
I was walking through a friend's yard at dusk in my new sandals. These were great sandals, about 3" off the ground...

Amy_P
Started 31 Oct 2006
It was a cool evening, and my dog, Dino was pretty wound up...

Amy_S
Started 2 Nov 2003
I got on the slide, and as it was wet, thought it would go super slow...

Andi
Started 8 Dec 2003
My 14 year old daughter has a left process fracture of her talus. She did this while practicing a dance for her recital...

Andrea
Started 8 Dec 2003. TIB plateau FX
The park was dessert so we allowed our two large and powerful dogs of the leash to enjoy a run...

Andrea_C
Started 8 Dec 2006
We went to Bridle Veil Falls and it was a great hike up...

Andrea_R
Started 9 Dec 2006
I got my right leg back and freed my left leg from the stirrup and jumped...

Andrew
Started 4 Dec 2003. TIB/FIB FX, (no surgery)
Chico State kicked the ball to one of my teammates who then passed the ball to me...

Andrew_C
Started 5 Dec 2006
I was riding a Gator (one of those golf cart on steroids things) around the farm where I live...

Andrew_G
Started 2 Dec 2006
My inside edge of my right skate dug in the ice twisting my right leg as I went down...

Andrew_L
Started 3 Dec 2007
It was great to read everyone else's tales of crack and twist, but I couldn't find any other leg breakers who did it surfing so here's my tale...

Andrew_S
Started 5 Dec 2005
I'm walking in front of my car, and out of the corner of my eye I see the lights of a car going in reverse...

Andy
Started 2 Dec 2001. TIB/FIB FX left leg
On the last day of my twenties...

Andy_B
Started 7 Dec 2006
I was heading out of town to visit a friend on my KTM 200EXC...

Andy_J
Started 8 Dec 2003
I decided to go kick a football around outside for a bit, as my legs were stiff from not being used much that day...

Andy_R
Started 1 Dec 2007
I went into my basement to get laundry and just missed the bottom step...

Angel
Started 31 Oct 2002
I did an about face to try to catch something falling off of the kitchen table...

Angela
Started 9 Dec 2004. TIB FX
I was leaving work from a 12hr night shift, wearing my beloved clogs...

Angie2
Started 2 Nov 2006
A truck pulled out across my lane...

Angie_C
Started 1 Nov 2004
I missed a step coming off the porch and broke my ankle...

Angie_G
Started 2 Nov 2006
My husband and I were in a motorcycle accident...

Anita
Started 4 Dec 2001. TIB plateau FX (surgery) (HW removed 03)
When I was in grade three I won an award for this poem...

Ann
Started 5 Dec 2003
My broken leg starts April 16 and reads like a comedy of errors...

Anna
Started 1 Nov 2002. TIB FX (surgery with HW) right leg
I was walking between the two cars to get in the passenger side when I heard a car skid...

Annanouska
Started 4 Dec 2006
I am inclined to think that I slipped on my sock...

Anne
Started 7 Dec 2004. TIB/FIB spiral compound, (surgery with HW)
I broke my fibula last Wednesday while walking my 15 year old dog - a big floppy eared yellow lab...

Annette
Started 9 Dec 2003
I was at work washing a bus in preparation for the new school year...

Annie
Started 4 Dec 2004
Out the front door I went, dressed for snow conditions in heavy boots, warm pants, sweater, jacket, wool hat, gloves, all of it...

Ann_B
Started 5 Dec 2004
Friends have asked teasingly if I was just trying to get out of unpacking...

Ann_P
Started 7 Dec 2003
It seemed so easy on the trampoline...

Anthony
Started 3 Dec 2001. TIB/FIB FX (surgery with HW)
I didn’t get a strike but rather a gutter ball...

Anthony_D
Started 1 Nov 2002. TIB FX compound (surgery with HW)
I was driving recklessly on a curvy and deadly road. Many people have wrecked on this road, and if they didn’t die, then they probably came pretty close to it. I myself was lucky...

Anton
Started 2 Nov 2002
I'm 57 years old and 4 months and one week ago, I fractured my left fibula...

Ari
Started 9 Dec 2006
I was hit by a van and thrown about 20 feet...

Aris
Started 6 Dec 2003
I was playing basketball with friends from work when the ball run out the basketball court over a guardrail...

Arlen
Started 1 Nov 2003. FIB FX spiral (no surgery) left leg
I stepped off a 15 inch deck...

Arlo
Started 31 Oct 2004
My Mum has never really liked the idea of me riding motorbikes...

Audrey
Started 1 Dec 2004
I started by stringing lights around the living room, so we stood on a table to reach...

Avrille
Started 8 Dec 2004
I thought that nowdays a bunionectomy could be relatively minor...

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