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Valathous
The Canadian, eh
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 Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:19 pm Playing Through the Pain |
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In the words of Don Cherry - here's a good ol' Canadian boy, taking one for the team and doing what needs to be done to win.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVlZ5xwugE4
I'm pretty sure your hand isn't supposed to look like that. Yeah, he kept playing after going to the dressing room for a few minutes.
Reminds me of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfadHi-qyw
Anyone else know about any athletes toughing it out? I've got a few stories stashed away for later, but for now... I played with a bum shoulder that kept dislocating due to a torn rotator cuff and stretched ligaments. Also played with a suspected fractured ankle.
I've also played road hockey with a broken arm.
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robbiewebster
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A few years ago when the Sabres were making a playoff push I remember Tim Connelly playing a few games with two black eyes. I agree, hockey players are the toughest athletes.
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Valathous
The Canadian, eh
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squiggy
Stooge Two
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Location: Messing with the fabric of Video Game realities. I'll summon Shiva on you! I SWEAR!
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Taylor Pyatt, not long after his Fiancee was killed in a car accident, is expected to see Ice Time within the first few games of the second round of the NHL playoffs.
Not physical pain... but it is definitely pain to reckon with. Perhaps more disabling than physical pain can be. It can crush your' Spirit. 
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B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9
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I dance as many of you know, and I know MANY people who have danced and continued to perform and dance on injuries!
My friend Christina broke her toe on stage, yet continued to dance.
My friend Grace broke her foot on stage, and ignored it - finished out the show before she said anything to anyone.
My friend Elisabeth just had surgery on her spine. She was unable to feel her feet for 2 months and didn't tell anyone. She had to watch her feet in the mirror in dance class so she could make sure that her feet where doing the right thing. Anyway, when she finally said something and went to the doctor she IMMEDIATELY had to have surgery on her spine.
I've danced on a horribly sprained ankle. My ankle was all huge and swollen, and extremely painful and I was supposed to stay off of it for 6 weeks. Well, I had a performance, and of course I wasn't going to miss my performance. It was extremely painful, but I danced thru it anyway. It was ridiculous how swollen it was! It actually took about 6 months before I was able to dance on it again without having to compensate in anyway. The pain still comes and goes on occation.
I've torn muscles in my feet and legs, but have ignored the pain and danced thru it - even though you feel like you could die.
I had a friend who broke her foot, but ignored it and danced anyway.
My friend Carisa was Mary Poppins in our last production of Mary Poppins. Well the arches of her feet were absolutely killing her!! They felt like they were on fire and tearing off of her body. She would dance on stage and make it look like a piece of cake. The moment she got off stage, she would collapse to the floor sobbing because it hurt so badly.
Dancers put themselves thru a lot. They make their bodies do a lot of unnatural things - standing on their toes for example! Like many athletes, dancers continue to dance when they shouldn't, and actually cause more injury to themselvses. Oh well - what can you do when you love it so much  !
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Dirt
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First: There are no sports out there that are more important than your health in my opinion! To continue your physical activities with an injury that may seriously damage your physique foregood doesn't make you commited or w.e., it makes you REALLY stupid.
That being said... there will always be an amount of pain during physical activities where you go and try to reach for the maximum limits of your ability. I think that is a 'healthy' pain, but when you go over that line you're dealing with a bad pain. Always hard to tell when you reach that line, but it's defintly there!
I think endurance athletes are tougher than hockey players, although the type of pain can't really be compared. 
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B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9
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| Dirt wrote: | First: There are no sports out there that are more important than your health in my opinion! To continue your physical activities with an injury that may seriously damage your physique foregood doesn't make you commited or w.e., it makes you REALLY stupid.
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true, but it's hard to stop doing something that you love 
My friend and I were having a long conversation about this 2 nights ago. She broke her foot during a rehearsal 2 weeks before one of our shows. She sat out that night, but the next rehearsals continued on and did the show. She went to the doctor once, and had a hairline fracture, wore a splint for 2 days, took it off, and never went back to get a cast.
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Valathous
The Canadian, eh
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| Dirt wrote: | First: There are no sports out there that are more important than your health in my opinion! To continue your physical activities with an injury that may seriously damage your physique foregood doesn't make you commited or w.e., it makes you REALLY stupid.
That being said... there will always be an amount of pain during physical activities where you go and try to reach for the maximum limits of your ability. I think that is a 'healthy' pain, but when you go over that line you're dealing with a bad pain. Always hard to tell when you reach that line, but it's defintly there!
I think endurance athletes are tougher than hockey players, although the type of pain can't really be compared. |
To some people, especially professional athletes, it is worth it. If it means accomplishing something that will engrave your name in sports history, to some people that's way more important to them than their physical health. To some people, accomplishments are all that matter. To some people not letting their team mates down is more important.
When I played in an actual league instead of just Sundays with friends, I used to be covered in bruises because I used to jump in front of shots to block them from getting to the net in order to help guarantee victory. Dunno if you've ever noticed, but frozen projectile vulcanized rubber hurts when it hits you where there's no padding.
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Dirt
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| Fri May 01, 2009 5:45 am |
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| Valathous wrote: |
To some people, especially professional athletes, it is worth it. If it means accomplishing something that will engrave your name in sports history, to some people that's way more important to them than their physical health. To some people, accomplishments are all that matter. To some people not letting their team mates down is more important. |
I understand what you're saying, but I think it is more a certain period in time where sports are all that matters. Your life doesn't end after the final score to a game has become just mere statistics, it is not a life or dead situation. In the end there's a ton of things more important than sports.
I agree with you 100% that you can love sports, I do myself too. I'm always on the search for the mental and physical limits of pain that I can endure in order to improve. But just like in that example that Allie is talking about, you can get so caught up in the moment and your own emotions, that going through a certain barrier of pain may mean that in the end you can't do what you love anymore. And to me that moment isn't worth the price of all the future joy I may get out of doing sports.
Play hard, sure. But be smart enough to know the limits of your own physique and know when to quit.
| Quote: | | When I played in an actual league instead of just Sundays with friends, I used to be covered in bruises because I used to jump in front of shots to block them from getting to the net in order to help guarantee victory. Dunno if you've ever noticed, but frozen projectile vulcanized rubber hurts when it hits you where there's no padding. |
I can imagine that Hockey hurts (skating mostly hurts my ego, since I'm no good at it ), but there's really no point in trying to argue what hurts more I guess (unless I go out and do a hockey game and you go out and do a hockey game or w.e.)
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