FOOT NOT BROKEN, HOORAY!

2005.02.28 @ 01:24

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Last week was a pretty busy one. One of the highlights was the demonstration our taekwondo club put on for new students, with punching, kicking, shouting, breaking wooden boards and roof tiles - fun for the whole family. One of the lowlights was realising afterwards that my foot was horribly swollen, red and rather painful. The doctor thought it was broken, but the subsequent xray thankfully proved otherwise. Thanks to the mashed up soft tissue and ligaments though, I’ll be limping around for a few days yet. *sigh*

A perfectly intact bone structure.

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Reader Comments

david / 2005.02.28 @ 14:15

hi matt,
i guess you’ll be tapping the keyboard a bit more for the couple of weeks. Hope its not to painfull for you, what did you actually do?

i studied GKR KARATE in brisbane over 5 years and well, i found that besides getting the odd brused rib from a blackbelt, most of my injuries were caused from training, because of not warming up enough.
Most of the injuries were in early morning lessons. I have had ; sholder in-pingement and torn hamstring x2, dislocated thumb from a white belt, that had no idea of what they were doing. etc.
hope you heal quicky, so you can get back to training!

See ya
David
shizu / 2005.03.02 @ 17:39

I hope you’ll get better soon.

shizu
Matt / 2005.03.02 @ 19:03

Hi David,

Well from what I can gather, I’ve kind of mashed up and badly bruised the soft tissue and tendons in my toe. I have a feeling it was from a less than perfect landing after a flying side kick- we were really cramped in space-wise. It’s much better now, I can at least move it without too much pain :)

You seem to have had a few knocks yourself! I also had a torn hamstring a couple of years ago - stretching with a white belt, who went a bit too far. Lasted for ages, was terrible. Cheers and thanks for the comments, I’m hoping to get back into it ASAP!
Matt / 2005.03.02 @ 19:04

Shizu, thankyou! I hope I’m better soon, too.