Injuries

[gymnast4life]

well, apparently...it can! now my coaches always say, "How about we have some good vaults today...No toes flying off everywhere!" lol

[flippin fool 08]

well I have been doing gymnastics for 11 years and my knees hurt all the time and so do my wrists. flippin fool 08

[maddiekate]

hmm... at this moment, one side of my back hurts, which i think is a muscle problem, and my knee hurts when straightened. i always have knee problems. :|

[BreezywithSpeed]

yeah.. this year. (2007) i ended up dislocating my thumb doing a round-off back tuck. of course you don't put your hands down on the back tuck so... silly me.. i dislocated it doing the roud-off. i popped it back in but in cheerleading the next night i caught someone wrong and ended up tearing the ligaments in my thumb. now i most likey need surgery because i'm still tumbling on it in a plastic brace.

[gymgymgymnast08]

I don't have any major injuries like that I would have to be out or anything.
I've straddled the beam about 1000 times and counting........
I trip over my feet A LOT! I randomly walk into things. Its so funny gymnasts are supposed to be graceful but usually we don't even get hurt doing actual gymnastics! I've had lots of friends who did stuff to their ankle like walking on curbs. Thats kinda bad I mean we flip on the beam! HAHA! Lets see any of my funny injuries:

* We were on the low bar that slides so people have to stand on the sides its like a single rail and we were doing shoot over timers so we did like the sole circle and came off and we were supposed to twist but I didn't and I had a lot of power and I landed on this black folded up pannel mat and it slide and I slammed down hard on my butt on the concrete! It hurt for days after! Then right after that happened I was standing on the side of the bar rail so my teammate could go and the bar still slid and the side of it hit me in the mouth and I had braces so I cut my lip and I was bleeding!
* I've also wiped out lots of times.
Jumping from the low bar to the high bar not catching on to the highbar but my hands touching it so falling down on my back.
Level 5 dismount- I never let go so I like swung back and slipped off and flipped forwards and landed on my back.
Tap swings- I peeled off on the back swing and landed on my face.

[SquirrelLadyMir]

I've got a fractured back.. No idea what level it is. but they can't fix it... uh.. I've twisted my ankle a couple times, too.

[cccam]

its funny cuz most people get hurt doing the easiest stuff, like this one level 7 at my gym broke her arm just fooling around and doing a level 5 beam dismount. i hyper extended my elbow doing a backhandspring because i got super excited and i also broke my finger doing a back handspring because i was mad at my coach so i wasn't thinking about the silly little bhs and i broke it

[cccam]

gymgymgymnast08: Level 5 dismount- I never let go so I like swung back and slipped off and flipped forwards and landed on my back.
Tap swings- I peeled off on the back swing and landed on my face.

HAHA! i did that too! when my grips didn't grip the bar good enough and i totally peeled of the bar! oh that sucks

[PeaceLoveGymnastic]

Well my only serious injury was last year i broke my finger on vault. it was so stupid i jabbed it into my leg... it didnt' hurt that much but the next day it was all swollen and purple. then we found out it was broken. it was awful.. i was off for 6 weeks! and it didn't even hurt!

oh and that was at a competetition... which i got 3rd on vault! with a broken finger!