dedication is?

(melvinator) · (melvinator) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 05-24-2006, 6:53 AM

Or maybe just stupidity

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(jon4pres) · (jon4pres) **Join Date: May 2004** 05-24-2006, 8:12 AM

I would go with stupidity.

Looks like a good way to get hurt worse and be off a wakeboard longer.

(md5150) · (md5150) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 05-24-2006, 8:38 AM

Broken leg wakeboarding school teacher with "Asswhooper51" as his AOL IM...

God help our youth.

(melvinator) · (melvinator) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 05-31-2006, 6:46 AM

Well MD, one of my students just placed #1 in the state for woodworking, so I must be helping our youth pretty well. Not a broken leg by the way, had ankle surgery 2 weeks prior to remove some fragments from my talus from a previous snowboard injury.

(chellet) · (chellet) **Join Date: Dec 2005** 05-31-2006, 7:54 AM

What would your doctor call it?

(newmy79) · (newmy79) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 05-31-2006, 8:27 AM

I injured my talus last year wakeboarding and was on one of those boots for about 1.5 mos. My talus still bothers me whenever I lean/bend a certain way on my ankle, sometimes buckling me over (Dr. told me I bruised it, but I really think I may have chipped the bone). But I don't want to go to the Dr. for fear that they'll tell me I need surgery.

(melvinator) · (melvinator) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 05-31-2006, 8:38 AM

My doctor only said not to get it wet, so I wore a foot condom thing. I have seen 4 doctors in the past 6 years and the 4th one finally spotted it. Fractured my talus in feb of 2000 and have been fighting it since. Flexibility kept getting worse. They removed a 3/4" hunk of bone/calcium build up about 4 weeks ago and I am feeling better everyday. The moral of the story is don't go to a foot and ankle specialist or a podiatrist(SP)they don't know jack. I saw a woman who works on pro athletes and she knew right away what the problem was. It is actually called snowboarders injury. It is when your toes come too far towards your shin and you fracture your talus. I reagrivated it every time I landed too toe heavy like underotating a tantrum. I will try to post a pic of what they removed from my ankle.

(ghostrider_2) · (ghostrider_2) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 05-31-2006, 1:06 PM

how do you know if you only bruised your talus? injured my ankle bad last year and my left still gets tender, I injured it by putting my toes to close to my chines, docs took xrays and said I am ok.?

(melvinator) · (melvinator) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 05-31-2006, 5:22 PM

Hey kenny, my first 3 doctors said I was ok too. Maybe you are ok, I am not a doctor. Talk to athletic trainers they can recomend god doc's usually.

(jcv) · (jcv) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 05-31-2006, 5:31 PM

i'd be much more inclined to listen to mathew in class than an 80 year-old professor who has been on a college campus every day since his high school graduation and is filthy rich from 60 years of ongoing "research" for the university and from selling his poorly-written textbook which is required material to take the course. if i had a teacher as cool as mathew maybe i'd go to class from time to time and learn how to mix in a comma

(garret_s) · (garret_s) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 05-31-2006, 5:52 PM

Well said Jeff.

(mjfan23) · (mjfan23) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 05-31-2006, 6:04 PM

Very true to

(melvinator) · (melvinator) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 06-01-2006, 5:52 AM

Not sure what you are saying Jeff, Your profile says you are 20 so I will take it as a compliment. I teach high school anyway, not rich, no textbook, thank god for good insurance :-)

Here is the pic I promised. That is cm on the right of the ruler, the chunk is a bit less than 1"
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(newmy79) · (newmy79) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 06-01-2006, 7:55 AM

Matt, the same thing happened to me when I injured my Talus. Came off a w2w jump and in the air got all squirrely, came down at a bad angle and the HS edge landed first with me bent over my toes and the board snapped up towards my shins. HURT LIKE HELL! Still bothers me every once in a while..But I'm tto stubborn to get and MRI done..

(melvinator) · (melvinator) **Join Date: Apr 2001** 06-01-2006, 8:21 AM

MRI shows mainly muscle, I had like 3 of those done, and a bone scan. This thing showed up plain as day with a CT scan, even when I looked at the scan I could tell. I am almost 4 weeks out of surgery and I am gaining flexibility every day, it does not hurt when I stretch like it used to. I am winching with a wakeboard and doing lip tricks on my skate, but no wake to wake stuff for me for a few more weeks. I am probably the most extreme case senario you will see with this problem, I hope anyway!