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Date: 1-25-08
Time: approx. 20:40ish..
Age: 27
Name: Josh Birkins
City, State: Baltimore, MD
# years practicing Parkour / Freerunning: about a year
Hours of training per week: 4-5
Other exercise / fitness experience: occational Crossfit WO, used to run, Martial Arts
Location where injury occurred: Xtreme Acro
Conditions of location: Indoor Gymnastics gym.. lots of padding and springy floors
What you were doing / trying to do when injury occurred? RPG had a long kong set up, so after doing one, I decided it'd be a great idea to try a reverse vault over it instead.. horrible idea... see video below..
Where any other people involved? 7 others where there
Part of body - description of injury, rating of severity 1-10: Left Foot - broke the 3 inner metacarpals near the ankle. 7 i guess, it was my first broken bone, so i don't really have anything to compare it to.. the initial pain and swelling really sucks.. i got no sleep that night cause of the dull pain..
Did you see a doctor for diagnosis? not right away.. I thought I'd only dislocated (then popped back in) a joint.. so i first went to my dad's office (he's a dentist) to get some Free xRays done to confirm any breakage. and there was.. So onward to an Orthopedic doctor. (3 days later)
Did you get X-rays or MRI's? X-rays done.. Saw the Dr. a month later. more X-rays. Bones healing, but still fractured. There's still pretty colors on the arch of my foot. Dr. said that won't go away for a while. Foot's still a little swollen. 12 wk full Recovery time. 6 down, 6 more to go.
Could you / how could you have avoided the injury? I could have avoided the injury by not doing that kind of reverse vault. but i'd done it before @ acro - only there were a few things different this time. 1) I wasn't really warmed up at all.. it was my 3rd jump of the night. 2) I'd done it before from the ground (this time was off the springy floor) - more air... 3) The padding was much softer and more forgiving before.
Notes on the experience? won't be doing that kind of vault anymore..
Reverse Vault to break..
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