Mathews cant hitchike for a bit.

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That makes sense, jamming your thumb when planting your pole. Is that what you did KY?

see, that doesn't make sense to me. who jams their pole so far into the ground that it doesn't move? theres always plenty of give in the snow

i'm a pretty good skiier, but i've never once jammed my thumb with my pole

i can see wrist injuries from the falls, but i just can't see thumbs being a big problem in skiing

[KYPack]

That makes sense, jamming your thumb when planting your pole. Is that what you did KY?

Sorta.

It's tough to imagine breaking your thumb on a pole plant. I broke mine when I planted my thumb in the ground after a wicked fall. You forget that you need to keep the thumb tucked in and when you brace your arm to break the fall, the thumb gets broke. it hurt like 99 bastards. I skied to the lodge at the bottom of Aspen mountain and self medicated. Nothing helped and that sumbitch swelled up like a "pride of your garden" squash. it turned all kinds of colors a lot faster than any break I've ever had, including a real nice purple.

The ER put me in a brace for the wrist & thumb and I got it casted the next day at the ER in Cincinnati. I never would have made it thru the flight without a half pint of Beam I smuggled aboard back in the days when you could do that shit. To get on topic, I couldn't have played a game of tiddlywinks in 4 - 6 weeks. It hurt for a long time and didn't stop giving me some misery for like a year.

But I'm some kind of ski pussy, I guess.

[mraynrand]

I think it's pretty common to get that break during a fall with your hand still on the pole and thumb out there. I haven't skied in years so I don't recall the normal reaction to a fall w/re: to the ski poles.

KY: Apsen - that's real skiing

I remember skiing at Brighton (Big Cottonwood canyon, UT) and then going over the Alta - at Alta the green runs are like Brighton Blues and the Blacks are just pure terror. That's what my buddy from CO told me about Aspen, and he's been skiing blacks since he was ten.

[Bossman641]

I did the same thing Ky. The last run of the day, I blow it and land hard and jam my thumb.

I had a less severe form which is a strained ligament (I think) which is called, creatively: " skiers thumb". It takes for fucking ever to heal, like months.

My rule oh thumb these days is when I nail that sweet run in mid afternoon, I call it a day and head to the lodge.

You all have me thinking now. 8-9 years ago I was skiing in Colorado and slammed my thumb directly into the ground. It hurt like hell, couldn't touch it or grip anything for a while afterwards. I figured I had just sprained it and let it be. It's never healed correctly. I have a bone that juts out at the base of my thumb but it never bothers me.

[Pugger]

There is an article about Clay's injury at www.packersnews.com and evidently they inserted pins in Clays hands and those pins will protrude outside of the skin for a month and that is why we can't just put a club on his hand and let him play.

[CaptainKickass]

jamming your thumb when planting your pole.

Captain Context literally laughed out loud while reading that with his "dirty mind" hat on.

[KYPack]

There is an article about Clay's injury at www.packersnews.com and evidently they inserted pins in Clays hands and those pins will protrude outside of the skin for a month and that is why we can't just put a club on his hand and let him play.

With the pins, the muscles won't atrophy like they would in a cast.

If he hits the field in 7-8 weeks, he ain't nothin' but a stud.

[bobblehead]

http://kb.iu.edu/data/ahic.html

Just pick the name of the browser you have been using on this page, link will take you to directions.

I just use Explorer, Chrome and Mozilla. When one uses up the access, I switch for the month

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having suffered a broken bone in my thumb and a devastating shattered ankle now, i can easily say that the broken thumb clearly hurt a whole hell of a lot more then the ankle.

i don't know what it is about the thumb, but it is a very painful injury

[Freak Out]

[KYPack]

having suffered a broken bone in my thumb and a devastating shattered ankle now, i can easily say that the broken thumb clearly hurt a whole hell of a lot more then the ankle.

i don't know what it is about the thumb, but it is a very painful injury

Oh yeah, you got a witness on that one.

It lingers, too.

For a long time, I would absentmindedly hit it on something and the pain would take your breath away.

Those pain pills didn't begin to touch it.

Whiskey was the only thing that worked reasonably.

[pbmax]

You all have me thinking now. 8-9 years ago I was skiing in Colorado and slammed my thumb directly into the ground. It hurt like hell, couldn't touch it or grip anything for a while afterwards. I figured I had just sprained it and let it be. It's never healed correctly. I have a bone that juts out at the base of my thumb but it never bothers me.

I knew you were Larry McCarren. Or Brian Baldinger.

[George Cumby]

The other thing about the fingers and hands is they are super densely enervated. Think about how much it hurts when you crack your thumb when pounding nails.

[Guiness]

Oh yeah, you got a witness on that one.

It lingers, too.

For a long time, I would absentmindedly hit it on something and the pain would take your breath away.

Those pain pills didn't begin to touch it.

Whiskey was the only thing that worked reasonably.

Heh. 'Whisky' and 'reasonable' in the same sentence.

[mraynrand]

Goodnight!