# What Was Your Worst Unicycling Injury?
**URL:** https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330
**Category:** General
**Created:** [October 25, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330 "2012-10-25T19:43:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dino](https://unicyclist.com/u/Dino)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/188 "2021-10-21T18:56:13Z")
> [@aarons](#):
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> Maybe if you do this a few more times, you’ll have a callous thick enough that you won’t need knee pads anymore.
🤣😂
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### Author:  [@Unigan](https://unicyclist.com/u/Unigan)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/189 "2021-10-24T00:10:59Z")
I injured myself this week when riding down a slope in high gear. Just went a little too fast and I rolled onto my right side impacting my right thigh and waist. Got a couple of nice bruises there but I was all armoured up so nothing serious.
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### Author:  [@DavidTennant](https://unicyclist.com/u/DavidTennant)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/190 "2021-12-03T17:59:57Z")
Two weeks ago I started training to do the everting challenge for next summer. But after about 1400m of elevation gain my knee started to hurt so I decided to ride home, which was smart because at the end I could almost put no pressure on the injured knee. the worst or best part is that it only hurts while unicycling, I just tried and after about 700m (distance) it started hurting again so I came back. Does anyone have any experience with and injury like this?
This is not my worst unicycling injury, but it is for sure my most annoying.
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### Author:  [@JimT](https://unicyclist.com/u/JimT)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/191 "2021-12-03T19:04:14Z")
Is your saddle as high as possible so your leg is nearly straight when at the bottom of the stroke? The lower the saddle is, the more stress it puts on your knees.
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### Author:  [@DavidTennant](https://unicyclist.com/u/DavidTennant)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/192 "2021-12-03T19:12:04Z")
I forgot to mention that, my saddle was too low for most of the ride, it was set up of muni not road riding
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### Author:  [@aarons](https://unicyclist.com/u/aarons)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/193 "2021-12-03T21:53:44Z")
I had an injury like that a long time ago. I had to take several months away from unicycling in order for it to heal enough that I could ride for more than a few minutes. Then I had to train carefully – start with very short rides and then add distance gradually – in order to keep from injuring it again. Even now if I do a long ride that I haven’t prepared for, my knee will get sore. Not to be a downer or anything. Hopefully yours will just get better with some rest.
One thing I’ve found that really helps is a compression knee sleeve.
Edit: When my knee started hurting, I wish I had gone to the doctor to find out what was actually wrong with it. I never got a diagnosis. If it has been 2 weeks and you’re still having trouble, maybe you should go see someone about it.
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### Author:  [@Vogelfrei80](https://unicyclist.com/u/Vogelfrei80)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/194 "2021-12-23T06:33:11Z")
I got a frozen shoulder 2 years ago: shoulder muscle started hurting and due to sore sticked to shoulder bones leaving me with half of the normal movement. I got to 75% manouvrability back going through a lot of exercises with a medic that was really really painful. I did exercises for 2 months than I should have gone on with homework exercises, but I quit to the pain. Now my shoulder is ar 60%, but if I UPD I shoulder roll as I always did and than I stop crying on the ground for a few minutes before regainin the ability to move the shoulder and to ride the uni again…
So I suggest you to see a doctor if your shoulder hurts sometimes: soreness could mean a lot of different things and maybe a painkiller won’t solve any issue at all than allowing you to ride for 2 days
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### Author:  [@Gockie](https://unicyclist.com/u/Gockie)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2021, 8:05am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/195 "2021-12-23T08:05:29Z")
Try doing this, it will rebuild your shoulder 🙂
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpyygG-b_Bw&t=1s)
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### Author:  [@29erKay](https://unicyclist.com/u/29erKay)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/196 "2021-12-23T14:33:11Z")
Worst unicycle injury was wearing away the skin on my very upper thighs towards the end of my first 90km ride. Happened a long time ago but yikes it hurt.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/197 "2021-12-23T23:06:11Z")
My worst injury was 3 years ago.
I badly sprained my right ankle while dismounting gracely. There was a slope on the sidewalk I was on, where I put my foot, and I didn’t pay attention.
I heard an audible “crack” sound in my ankle. 😬
I was pissed off because it was just a day before I was supposed to do my very first trail ride with other unicyclists near Paris, and I couldn’t attend it.
I started physical therapy quickly after the injury, I couldn’t ride for three months and the pain lasted for more than six months.
Now, I’m always extra careful when I dismount from my unicycle.
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### Author:  [@zerodish](https://unicyclist.com/u/zerodish)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/198 "2022-01-18T13:36:18Z")
I broke a toe when the neighbors St Benard put his leg in the spokes. He was just playing and was unhurt. I don’t tell people the only way to knock us off is to stick something in the spokes. I broke my nose ice skating.
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### Author:  [@Setonix](https://unicyclist.com/u/Setonix)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/199 "2022-01-18T15:00:48Z")
ur supposed to skate with your nose in the air!
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/200 "2022-01-31T20:21:51Z")
> [@zerodish](#):
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> I broke a toe
Now I remember I also (supposedly) broke a toe while falling a few years ago. It quickly became like this:
> **Click to see my foot several hours later**
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I went to the doctor only maybe a week after and showed her the photo since my toe looked way better, and she told me she believed it was slightly broken. But I had no complication, no radiography, and it healed by itself.
I limped for a bit and fairly quickly came back to my unicycle: it was easier to ride it than walking since walking bends your toes when unicycling doesn’t.
Nowadays my toe is just way less flexible than it was before, and I don’t care.
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### Author:  [@lobbybopster](https://unicyclist.com/u/lobbybopster)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/201 "2022-03-21T03:17:17Z")
> [@zerodish](#):
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> I broke a toe
Boy, I feel your pain buddy! Last weekend was doing a high speed run on my Schlumpf 29er and it was gone, just like that.
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### Author:  [@Siddhartha\_Valmont](https://unicyclist.com/u/Siddhartha_Valmont)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/202 "2022-03-24T12:25:38Z")
Here is an unfortunate escalation of my worst injury that until now was just a rolled ankle:
> **Click to see X-ray picture**
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A dday at the beach just enjoying the fatty on mostly dry sand. Apparently, I brought also with me a truckload of bad luck: tried to roll down a 1.5 foot drop in sand, UPD because of the rebound, right foot to the ground, left foot to the ground in a wet and sticky sand mixture, hear a crack and fell.
Now the surgeon realigned the piece of bone and nothing else was torn (at least some good news). Just need to be patient for walking again (not for another 6 weeks) and then work on my P.T. to ride again soon enough 😉
Never underestimate sand 😛
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### Author:  [@ruari](https://unicyclist.com/u/ruari)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/203 "2022-03-24T12:41:27Z")
F\*\*k and Ouch.
P.S. I am not sure I am enjoying reading this thread 😐
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### Author:  [@Siddhartha\_Valmont](https://unicyclist.com/u/Siddhartha_Valmont)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/204 "2022-03-24T12:55:56Z")
> [@ruari](#):
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> P.S. I am not sure I am enjoying reading this thread 😐
I am sorry if the visual nature of the x-ray kills the vibe. I was not able to find any spoiler-style macro to make it optional (if any @admin knows…).
The main takeaway in my case is that freak accidents can happen but it is not as bad as it looks. Without drifting on the other confidence thread, for now I am looking forward to the P.T. to tell me cycling is the next step to build back the leg strength 😉
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### Author:  [@ruari](https://unicyclist.com/u/ruari)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/205 "2022-03-24T13:08:11Z")
> [@Siddhartha\_Valmont](#):
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> I am sorry if the visual nature of the x-ray kills the vibe. I was not able to find any spoiler-style macro to make it optional (if any @admin knows…).
No, I think it is fine. It was my poor attempt at humor. 😉
But to be clear, I do still feel bad for everyone here and the thread does make our sport look more dangerous than it probably is 😜
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### Author:  [@Dino](https://unicyclist.com/u/Dino)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/206 "2022-03-24T13:12:12Z")
Having broken my arm in a UPD (see somewhere above) I feel your pain and frustration.
Hope you heal up and are back riding soon.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330/207 "2022-03-24T13:16:07Z")
> [@Siddhartha\_Valmont](#):
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> I was not able to find any spoiler-style macro to make it optional (if any @admin knows…).
Toolbar:
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