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[coinshooter]

Over the years I have had my share of metal detecting injuries. Do you find that detecting has caused, created, amplified or started injuries you may have not had before?

 

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[vpnavy]

Over the years I have had my share of metal detecting injuries...

Dang - never gave that a thought. So, I searched

and was surprised to find a bunch hits. Here are just a few...

metal detecting with tendonitis elbow (May 25, 2011)

MD injuries!! (Feb 21, 2018)

MY Shoulder Hurt!! (Aug 30, 2012)

Knee Protection when Metal Detecting (Apr 25, 2005)

Injury Liability Waiver Form for Detecting? (Jun 14, 2015)​

 

[RGINN]

Never any injuries but if you think about it, it could happen, particularly if you were detecting constantly. It's repetitive motion, and that sort of thing can lead to some problems. Knee injuries could result too.

 

[SD51]

I had "Tennis Elbow" one year and I don't even own a tennis racket!

 

[Nathan W]

I've had two. I stepped into a covered stump hole in woods and I've strained my tendon in my wrist from digging

 

[Mudflap]

MRI sez my rotator cuff is shot and can't be repaired $%^&. Looks like the ole CZ-21 is gonna have to retire...... Might be able to do one of the newer machines. Been swinging the old Whites detectors since about 68,

 

[Sandog]

Olecranon bursitis.

 

[Gare]

Does aving come close to getting bit by a rattle Snake count ? Have scraped my hands on Nails . Have scraped my hands,arms and legs on Thorns,

 

[Chilli]

Over the years I have had my share of metal detecting injuries. Do you find that detecting has caused, created, amplified or started injuries you may have not had before?

One crazy injury and one near life taking event.
Crazy injury.
This is why I have never ever used an arm cuff holder in 20 yrs.
I was detecting in the Pyrenees Ranges in Victoria. I was in an area that had huge 50 meter easy gum trees over a very old lead that had never had a fire or anything since the diggers days. Huge branches over the mullock heap diggings. Great area, great gold. I stepped over a huge fallen branch and my foot caught a smaller limb on it. It propelled me forward like a huge elastic band and head first into a tree stump. I hit my temple on a protruding bit in the stump, like a big knot sticking out several inches. It wasn't good. I couldn't get my arm out in time, I threw the pick but my arm was stuck in the holder and I took the full force on my left temple. Im left handed.
I was almost totally ko'd. I gathered myself and stupidly tried to keep detecting. Half an hr later I was on my way home. Sicker and sicker over several days then go to the Doc. Xray showed a huge black area that the doc said was bleeding and signs of infection in my nasal sort of ear nose tract area going down from my temple area. Antibiotics and resting for three weeks to come right.
The other. Nearly killed me.
Detecting again and get a deep target. An hr going at it and down to 2 feet in hard ground. Getting deeper now and im leaning into the hole to get handfuls of stuff out. Lots of gravels and dust. Finally about near 3 foot just some old time goldfields junk. Using an SD 2200D with 18"DD. Suddenly I feel odd, I put it down to the heat and effort not stopping. Soon just 10 mins later im feeling really odd so go home. 2 hrs later at home my misses calls a DR as im unconscious. That was when Drs actually came to homes in Victoria country towns. Immediately he called an ambulance and I was in intensive care. Last I recalled I was in an isolation room. 12 hrs later, I was told I had no idea, I woke up, I remember that, and called out "where am I". A nurse came in and I saw her eyes wide open and heard her call for another "come and see this".
I was utterly drenched. Totally soaked like a bucket of water had been tipped over me. I spent after that 10 days on IV drip antibiotics, oxygen and oral stuff. At times I was actually tripping. My Dr who was awesome after I got well said they did test after test and what I had nobody had ever seen nor could explain but it was an unknown virus that after I told him the story he said came out of the ground I had been digging in.
Out of hospital I had lost 15 kilos weight and it took me 12 months to feel right.
During that 12 mths back at work I went from being able to work out things in my head to needing a calculator and the work computer. Previously things I did off hand.
That was scary.

 

[Gare]

I myself HOPE and PRAY you no longer have any of those issues Hang in there buddy and please be more careful

 

[robertk]

The worst thing I can recall ever getting while metal detecting is poison ivy.

My Dr who was awesome after I got well said they did test after test and what I had nobody had ever seen nor could explain but it was an unknown virus that after I told him the story he said came out of the ground I had been digging in.

That is some seriously scary stuff. I've often wondered about that -- digging up old medicine bottles that haven't seen fresh air in a century, you wonder if the air in them might still have whatever killed the last person.

 

[beepbleep]

I had an EKG done yesterday. It showed an old Septal Myocardial Infarction that had happened sometime. Now I'm looking at the stress test and possibly the radioactive isotope test thing that circulates through the heart.
He said it could have happened during another event like the motorcycle accident I had or the bumblebee attack when I was bush hogging pastures.

 

[coinshooter]

One crazy injury and one near life taking event.
Crazy injury.
This is why I have never ever used an arm cuff holder in 20 yrs.
I was detecting in the Pyrenees Ranges in Victoria. I was in an area that had huge 50 meter easy gum trees over a very old lead that had never had a fire or anything since the diggers days. Huge branches over the mullock heap diggings. Great area, great gold. I stepped over a huge fallen branch and my foot caught a smaller limb on it. It propelled me forward like a huge elastic band and head first into a tree stump. I hit my temple on a protruding bit in the stump, like a big knot sticking out several inches. It wasn't good. I couldn't get my arm out in time, I threw the pick but my arm was stuck in the holder and I took the full force on my left temple. Im left handed.
I was almost totally ko'd. I gathered myself and stupidly tried to keep detecting. Half an hr later I was on my way home. Sicker and sicker over several days then go to the Doc. Xray showed a huge black area that the doc said was bleeding and signs of infection in my nasal sort of ear nose tract area going down from my temple area. Antibiotics and resting for three weeks to come right.
The other. Nearly killed me.
Detecting again and get a deep target. An hr going at it and down to 2 feet in hard ground. Getting deeper now and im leaning into the hole to get handfuls of stuff out. Lots of gravels and dust. Finally about near 3 foot just some old time goldfields junk. Using an SD 2200D with 18"DD. Suddenly I feel odd, I put it down to the heat and effort not stopping. Soon just 10 mins later im feeling really odd so go home. 2 hrs later at home my misses calls a DR as im unconscious. That was when Drs actually came to homes in Victoria country towns. Immediately he called an ambulance and I was in intensive care. Last I recalled I was in an isolation room. 12 hrs later, I was told I had no idea, I woke up, I remember that, and called out "where am I". A nurse came in and I saw her eyes wide open and heard her call for another "come and see this".
I was utterly drenched. Totally soaked like a bucket of water had been tipped over me. I spent after that 10 days on IV drip antibiotics, oxygen and oral stuff. At times I was actually tripping. My Dr who was awesome after I got well said they did test after test and what I had nobody had ever seen nor could explain but it was an unknown virus that after I told him the story he said came out of the ground I had been digging in.
Out of hospital I had lost 15 kilos weight and it took me 12 months to feel right.
During that 12 mths back at work I went from being able to work out things in my head to needing a calculator and the work computer. Previously things I did off hand.
That was scary.

DANG! I think you are the winner (or loser as the case may be).

 

[Jeff H]

When I first got into the hobby, I used to get severe headaches from listening to my wife complain about me going detecting too often. Does that count?

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

MRI sez my rotator cuff is shot and can't be repaired $%^&. Looks like the ole CZ-21 is gonna have to retire...... Might be able to do one of the newer machines. Been swinging the old Whites detectors since about 68,

Switch arms

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

One crazy injury and one near life taking event.
Crazy injury.
This is why I have never ever used an arm cuff holder in 20 yrs.
I was detecting in the Pyrenees Ranges in Victoria. I was in an area that had huge 50 meter easy gum trees over a very old lead that had never had a fire or anything since the diggers days. Huge branches over the mullock heap diggings. Great area, great gold. I stepped over a huge fallen branch and my foot caught a smaller limb on it. It propelled me forward like a huge elastic band and head first into a tree stump. I hit my temple on a protruding bit in the stump, like a big knot sticking out several inches. It wasn't good. I couldn't get my arm out in time, I threw the pick but my arm was stuck in the holder and I took the full force on my left temple. Im left handed.
I was almost totally ko'd. I gathered myself and stupidly tried to keep detecting. Half an hr later I was on my way home. Sicker and sicker over several days then go to the Doc. Xray showed a huge black area that the doc said was bleeding and signs of infection in my nasal sort of ear nose tract area going down from my temple area. Antibiotics and resting for three weeks to come right.
The other. Nearly killed me.
Detecting again and get a deep target. An hr going at it and down to 2 feet in hard ground. Getting deeper now and im leaning into the hole to get handfuls of stuff out. Lots of gravels and dust. Finally about near 3 foot just some old time goldfields junk. Using an SD 2200D with 18"DD. Suddenly I feel odd, I put it down to the heat and effort not stopping. Soon just 10 mins later im feeling really odd so go home. 2 hrs later at home my misses calls a DR as im unconscious. That was when Drs actually came to homes in Victoria country towns. Immediately he called an ambulance and I was in intensive care. Last I recalled I was in an isolation room. 12 hrs later, I was told I had no idea, I woke up, I remember that, and called out "where am I". A nurse came in and I saw her eyes wide open and heard her call for another "come and see this".
I was utterly drenched. Totally soaked like a bucket of water had been tipped over me. I spent after that 10 days on IV drip antibiotics, oxygen and oral stuff. At times I was actually tripping. My Dr who was awesome after I got well said they did test after test and what I had nobody had ever seen nor could explain but it was an unknown virus that after I told him the story he said came out of the ground I had been digging in.
Out of hospital I had lost 15 kilos weight and it took me 12 months to feel right.
During that 12 mths back at work I went from being able to work out things in my head to needing a calculator and the work computer. Previously things I did off hand.
That was scary.

Well sure ... but was the nurse cute?