Picture the scene: You’re sitting watching your favourite sport on TV, as athletes perform superhuman tasks, appearing to defy gravity and the laws of physics when you reach for your cup of tea and pull something in your back. Ouch.
It can leave you feeling decidedly less than superhuman when you injure yourself doing something rather ordinary, especially after seeing the incredible athletes at the Winter Olympics throw themselves down a mountain without even a scratch.
However, sport has a long history of some truly bizarre injuries, not all of which were due to the actual sport. From frozen penises to sneezing so hard it causes a back injury, we have a look at some of the peculiar injuries suffered by sportsmen (it’s almost always men) over the years.
Remi Lindholm
The Olympic cross-country skier recently made headlines, but not for his sporting prowess. After crossing the finishing line of the men’s 50km cross-country, the Finnish Olympian revealed that the conditions had been so cold that his penis had frozen.
Lindholm was quick to get a heat pack to his tender member but told later of the ‘unbearable pain’ as he thawed his crotch.
Sammy Sosa
Sammy Sosa was a baseball legend, but when sat chatting with reporters in 2004, he let out a particularly violent sneeze which caused severe back pain, which ultimately led him to be diagnosed with back spasms and be placed on the team’s disabled list.
Jaret Holmes and Chris Hanson
It might sound like the set-up for a sketch show joke, but when two American Football players attempted to move a hot fondue set, it proved to be a recipe for disaster. While moving the pot of molten hot cheese, they dropped it, smashing the fondue set and covering them in scalding hot cheese and inflicting severe burns.
However, Hanson has also been involved in another silly incident, after trying to chop a piece of wood with his team’s ‘motivational axe’, but instead hit his leg, causing a deep cut that required surgery.
You don’t have to partake in sports to suffer from an injury that needs a sports therapist in Maidenhead, so talk to us today if you need help.
