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Aaron
Started 26 May 2004. TIB/FIB FX (surgery)
Why I don't like in-line skating - sub-trochanter femur FX...

Aaron_B
Started 4 Nov 2010
We were about 10 minutes into a 5 a side football game at Exeter University...

Aaron_F
Started 14 Feb 2010
One of the things that needed doing was installing a 1 ton dampner...

Aaron_H
Started 5 May 2013
I had the great idea of taking my friend ice skating...

Aaron_J
Started 9 Jul 2004
As I was talking and having a good time, I decided to sit on the railing of my balcony...

Aaron_S
Started 2 May 2011
Hard to believe this can happen from falling down 4 carpeted steps...

Abby
Started 10 Feb 2008
In the beginning, I was fairly whole...

Adam
Started 3 Sep 2003
A car ran a stop sign...

Adam2
Started 20 Sep 2006
We were in the middle of the scrimmage we do right before we go home, and I say to my self...

Adam3
Started 7 Nov 2010
Frustrated that I can't smoke up I decide I'll drink the entire bottle of spiced rum in one go...

Adam_D
Started 17 Aug 2011
In my head I imagined that it would be cool to slide across the mopped floor...

Adam_G
Started 3 Jun 2007
As I was running down the hill I tried to make a sharp turn to the right on the wet pavement...

Adena
Started 21 Jan 2004
All was well until the last race of the day...

Adri
Started 5 Mar 2009
A car out of no where cuts us off...

Adria
Started 16 Mar 2002. TIB spiral/FIB FX, (surgery with HW)
"My leg is broken" she said. I really hoped she was wrong...

Adrian
Started 7 Jul 2010
Ninth day paragliding in the Himalayas...

Adrian2
Started 6 Jul 2011
Me and my little brother Kyle wanted to take a bike ride...

Adrienne
Started 8 Jun 2002. TIB/FIB FX torn ligaments (2 surgeries with HW)
I had given blood the day before...

Aggie
Started 6 Apr 2003. TIB FX (surgery with HW)
I headed down the cellar steps with my 17 year old dog in my arms and slipped...

Aimee
Started 17 Mar 2008
I never knew how perilous ice skating was till I crashed this past Valentine's Day...

Al
Started 2 Oct 2005
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 6 Jan 2006. TIB/FIB FX spiral, right leg
I broke my left tib and fib after a nasty accidental collision on the football pitch ...

Alan_B
Started 17 Apr 2011
I had completed the first 12 miles through some rough terrain...

Alejandro
Started 2 Aug 2010
My 10 year old daughter wanted to go ice skating because she received a coupon in school and it was really a bargain...

Alex
Started 14 Jan 2004
I always try to avoid riding at night, but that night seemed relatively harmless ...

Alex2
Started 25 Jul 2006
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 21 Mar 2003. 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 19 Mar 2007
I slipped on some rubbish and fell down 6 stairs on my way into a London tube station...

Alexis_K
Started 22 Mar 2012
I went to the Lake District, had a fantastic time, hiked up the highest mountain in England...

Alex_B
Started 31 Jan 2006
January 16 2006 was like any other day in Hawaii...

Alex_E
Started 21 Apr 2005
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...

Alex_W
Started 30 Nov 2011
I broke my leg falling off a ladder onto concrete in 2008. Then a week ago, I was on a trampoline...

Alfred
Started 28 Apr 2006
I fell from a ladder...

Ali
Started 20 Jan 2010
It was too icy and I already had too much speed...

Alice
Started 22 Mar 2012
I was in a head on collision on the A4 road with a lorry...

Alicia
Started 30 Apr 2007
I live on an old twisty country back road, which means you have no room for error...

Alicia_B
Started 7 Aug 2011
At a family party, we were on the trampoline and my boyfriend kept trying to knock me over, "for a joke"...

Alison
Started 4 Oct 2004
I remember looking at my leg and being relieved that it didn't look like it was bent in an abnormal direction...

Alison_B
Started 8 Dec 2008
My husband and I were hit by a car that cut us off...

Alison_H
Started 25 Sep 2006
A ball was thrown on the trampoline and I landed on it...

Alison_Q
Started 30 Sep 2010
My husband threw the ball, my dog spun round and ran into me at full pelt while chasing it...

Alison_R
Started 19 Jul 2006
I actually made it all the way down to the landing...

Alison_T
Started 31 Jul 2005
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 16 May 2006
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 19 May 2001. FIB FX (surgery with HW)
I was running up a hill at a weird angle...

Allie
Started 25 Apr 2010
I decided to jump on the trampoline with my sister...

Allison
Started 10 Sep 2007. 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 16 Oct 2004
And here I was, insisting on going on my motorcycle...

Alyson
Started 28 Dec 2004
It was really slippery from the dew and as I was mounting the bar for my last repitition...

Alyson_P
Started 7 Oct 2012
While camping on vacation my hubby & I decided to go for a bike ride...

Al_T
Started 14 Nov 2005
I was in the crosswalk, had the light to cross, and a car came down...

Amanda
Started 19 Mar 2005
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 27 Nov 2007
I fell down a hill...

Amanda3
Started 13 Dec 2008
I went to go try a "kid safe" horse out for my daughters...

Amanda4
Started 21 Feb 2010
We do a couple runs on the easy slope then we go up to the top and take the medium trails down...

Amanda_A
Started 4 Jun 2009
On Mothers Day I was out hiking with my boyfriend...

Amanda_B
Started 15 May 2012
My fiance and I were on vacation in Key West and we decided to do a jet ski tour...

Amanda_L
Started 25 Feb 2009
It wasn't hard to tell what happened by the extremely loud CRACK...

Amanda_S
Started 2 Jul 2010
I was walking down my moms driveway...

Amber
Started 22 May 2005
Recently my DH (devoted husband) was on a 4 wheeling trip...

Amber_P
Started 24 Feb 2012
It was New Year's and I was hanging out with a couple friends...

Ambsss
Started 28 Jul 2009
I woke up in the middle of the night to use the washroom, located up stairs...

Amy
Started 28 Mar 2002. TIB FX (surgery with HW)
I didn't vault high enough, and started sliding back down...

Amy2
Started 27 Feb 2007
As I was headed back down the stairs to my office in the basement, with my arms loaded with rubbish...

Amy3
Started 6 Jun 2007
It was the first really nice, warm day in a very long time and a day to be outside...

Amy_B
Started 23 Jun 2005
We were walking in the back entrance of Days Inn when all of a sudden I tripped over something...

Amy_G
Started 9 Feb 2007
It was lightly snowing...

Amy_H
Started 2 Jul 2007. 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 21 Oct 2007
It was a cool evening, and my dog, Dino was pretty wound up...

Amy_S
Started 25 Nov 2004
I got on the slide, and as it was wet, thought it would go super slow...

Ana
Started 20 Jun 2009. TIB plateau FX (no surgery)
I love ice-skating it is all I ever do...

Andi
Started 23 Aug 2004
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 5 Aug 2004. TIB plateau FX
The park was dessert so we allowed our two large and powerful dogs of the leash to enjoy a run...

Andrea2
Started 30 Nov 2011
I was doing some house work up on a ladder...

Andrea_C
Started 22 Aug 2007
We went to Bridle Veil Falls and it was a great hike up...

Andrea_R
Started 28 Aug 2007
I got my right leg back and freed my left leg from the stirrup and jumped...

Andrew
Started 3 Apr 2004. TIB/FIB FX, (no surgery)
Chico State kicked the ball to one of my teammates who then passed the ball to me...

Andrew2
Started 19 Feb 2009
I twisted my leg in a hole at a bachelor party at my hunting club...

Andrew3
Started 30 Jun 2011
It was the first full day of my summer vacation...

Andrew_C
Started 2 May 2007
I was riding a Gator (one of those golf cart on steroids things) around the farm where I live...

Andrew_G
Started 9 Feb 2007
My inside edge of my right skate dug in the ice twisting my right leg as I went down...

Andrew_L
Started 7 Mar 2008
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_P
Started 4 Mar 2012
I broke my leg at school playing basketball...

Andrew_Q
Started 23 Jul 2011
I was in a motorcycle accident, hit from behind by a tractor trailer...

Andrew_S
Started 24 Apr 2006
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...

Andrew_T
Started 13 Apr 2011
In my backyard, I have a cool oak tree...

Andy
Started 17 Feb 2002. TIB/FIB FX left leg
On the last day of my twenties...

Andy_B
Started 2 Jul 2007
I was heading out of town to visit a friend on my KTM 200EXC...

Andy_D
Started 15 Apr 2009
Just putting another banner up to the poles as beforet on ankle....

Andy_J
Started 11 Aug 2004
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 22 Jan 2008
I went into my basement to get laundry and just missed the bottom step...

Ang
Started 31 May 2011
3 steps, a cat and a handful of dresses...

Angel
Started 13 Oct 2003
I did an about face to try to catch something falling off of the kitchen table...

Angel2
Started 17 Jan 2011
My husband and I made our way to the world's largest indoor mountain bike park...

Angela
Started 13 Sep 2005. TIB FX
I was leaving work from a 12hr night shift, wearing my beloved clogs...

Angela_N
Started 25 Jan 2009
I need to go into my medical history for this story to make sense...

Angie2
Started 7 Dec 2007
A truck pulled out across my lane...

Angie_C
Started 20 Nov 2005
I missed a step coming off the porch and broke my ankle...

Angie_G
Started 17 Dec 2007
My husband and I were in a motorcycle accident...

Anita
Started 10 Apr 2002. TIB plateau FX (surgery) (HW removed 03)
When I was in grade three I won an award for this poem...

Ann
Started 17 May 2004
My broken leg starts April 16 and reads like a comedy of errors...

Anna
Started 12 Nov 2003. 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 25 Mar 2007
I am inclined to think that I slipped on my sock...

Anna_S
Started 27 Jan 2010
I slipped on the ice in a parking lot...

Anne
Started 7 Jul 2005. 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...

AnneMarie_E
Started 27 Sep 2010
I was on holiday at a beautiful, remote location in northern Ontario (Camp Manitou - boat access only)...

Annette
Started 14 Sep 2004
I was at work washing a bus in preparation for the new school year...

Annie
Started 25 Mar 2005
Out the front door I went, dressed for snow conditions in heavy boots, warm pants, sweater, jacket, wool hat, gloves, all of it...

Annie_L
Started 17 Jan 2011
It was a lovely cold clear day and my friend Sharon and I decided to walk our dogs together across the fields near our houses...

Ann_B
Started 6 May 2005
Friends have asked teasingly if I was just trying to get out of unpacking...

Ann_P
Started 11 Jul 2004
It seemed so easy on the trampoline...

Ann_W
Started 24 Mar 2011
I was in a bit of a rush so did not eat lunch that day...

Anthony
Started 10 Mar 2002. TIB/FIB FX (surgery with HW)
I didn’t get a strike but rather a gutter ball...

Anthony_D
Started 6 Nov 2003. 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 17 Dec 2003
I'm 57 years old and 4 months and one week ago, I fractured my left fibula...

April
Started 26 Mar 2009
I had slid on my favorite pair of flat black shoes...

April_H
Started 4 Oct 2009
I was vacationing on a California beach. Had only been there for an hour or so when a four foot wave knocked me over...

Ari
Started 9 Sep 2007
I was hit by a van and thrown about 20 feet...

Aris
Started 14 Jun 2004
I was playing basketball with friends from work when the ball run out the basketball court over a guardrail...

Arlen
Started 11 Nov 2004. FIB FX spiral (no surgery) left leg
I stepped off a 15 inch deck...

Arlo
Started 10 Oct 2005
My Mum has never really liked the idea of me riding motorbikes...

Arly71
Started 26 Sep 2011
I had a car accident resulting in...

Arunkumar
Started 14 Feb 2013
I was riding my bike to the office...

Ashlee_H
Started 7 Aug 2011
My feet basically got tangled in themselves...

Ashley
Started 27 Sep 2010
I've never been much of a risk taker...

Ashley2
Started 24 Aug 2011
I broke my ankle on Tuesday...

AshleyDawn
Started 24 Aug 2011
It’s not a lack of visitors...

Ashley_L
Started 28 Jul 2011
I broke my fibula from one morning running in the park...

Audrey
Started 6 Jan 2005
I started by stringing lights around the living room, so we stood on a table to reach...

Audrey_L
Started 22 Feb 2011
It was a gorgeous day here in NC and I headed outside with my 2 fur-kids for a romp in the yard...

Aundrea
Started 8 Apr 2010
I just thought I would go for a nice run on a beautiful Sunday Morning...

Auria
Started 29 Jul 2009
My injuries occured in May and I am still in a plaster type cast...

Avrille
Started 12 Aug 2005
I thought that nowdays a bunionectomy could be relatively minor...

A_C
Started 28 Jun 2009
I decided to paint over the caulked areas and remembering my wife's cautionary advice...

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