Date of Injury:
6.7.09
Time of injury:
16:00
Your DOB and age:
10.13.1990
name:
Anthony
City, State
Fort Wayne, IN.
# years practicing Parkour / Freerunning
this would be my third year
Hours of training per week.
3-14
Other exercise / fitness experience
track: 7 years
wrestling: 4 years
Location where injury occurred
BP bridge in Chicago, IL
Conditions of location
bright and sunny, a little wind now and again
What you were doing / trying to do when injury occurred?
run up one side, vault to the middle part, and vault over the edge and slide to the bottom where the grass was
Where any other people involved?
others attempted it, none injured
Part of body - description of injury, rating of severity 1-10.
my left foot. (my first, second, third, and fouth metatarsals were broken)
severity 8
Did you see a doctor for diagnosis?
i actually had to see 3.
Did you get X-rays or MRI's?
X-rays, and about an hour and a half of surgery
Picture of the injury
dont have copies of the x-rays
Could you / how could you have avoided the injury?
pulled my feet up at the bottom of the bridge and rolled before i clipped my foot.
Date / type / severity of your last injury?
This was my first parkour related incident.
Notes on the experience?
i think overall it was a positive experience, just lets me know that even something so simple and seemingly routine can have such a big effect if you don't do it exactly the way that you intended to.
