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Title: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: Natejam71 on September 22, 2008, 09:03:00 PM
On Sunday when the Holy Ghost filled the place, people broke out in a holy dance..I was playing so long that when I looked at my hands I had a few cuts on them (played with my sticks in between my fingers and some skin came off from my hands....painful).  Share your drum injuries. Stay blessed, Nate J.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: JHJr on September 22, 2008, 10:56:57 PM
Have u ever experienced cramps in your forearms that makes you fingers cramp into a fist, or your arm and hand get that tingling felling like its going to sleep.  I just palyed 10 min ago at college minisrty and all of that hit me like a brick.   However, i know i got a history of cramps so before a gig i drink 2 bottles of gatorade and during.     
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: SabianKnight on September 23, 2008, 01:06:17 AM
Have u ever experienced cramps in your forearms that makes you fingers cramp into a fist, or your arm and hand get that tingling felling like its going to sleep.  I just palyed 10 min ago at college minisrty and all of that hit me like a brick.   However, i know i got a history of cramps so before a gig i drink 2 bottles of gatorade and during.     

You need to drink more water and start taking potassium suppliments. gatorade it a band-aid fix for what is a more serious issue.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: MODERN_DRUMMER on September 23, 2008, 07:54:10 AM
light cramps in my hand in between my thumb and pointer finger

occasionally will hit my self in the eye wit ha stick

one time i had my hi hats too high and i happen to cut my finger on them and had spots of blood all over my white drum heads, and a guest drummer had the nerve to come in and say nice design??????????????? lol lol :P :P :P
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: TheyCryWhenIPlay on September 23, 2008, 08:41:23 AM
Injuries? Let's see...

...I battled this guy, and broke his heart.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: lockslie1 on September 23, 2008, 08:57:00 AM
I don't remember sustaining any injuries but I have injured others. I once let a stick slip out of my hand and hit the organist in the forehead and he fell off the organ. ;D
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: tko05 on September 23, 2008, 10:49:35 AM
I played my Yamaha DTXpress II kit,and I swear those heads are made out of concrete... LOL, for 8hrs. straight and my right forearm swoll up about 3 in. below my wrist.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: DatDrummaboy87 on September 23, 2008, 10:50:46 AM
on two occasions i caught a cramp in my right calf muscle in the middle of a song and had to stop....
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: Metronome on September 23, 2008, 11:25:46 AM
Never really experienced cramps, just fatigue.  When i waws younger I would cut my knuckles when i hit the floor tom.....bad set up back then
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: yamahaboy on September 23, 2008, 05:07:03 PM
Yeah I've caught them on a few different occasions on the back of my thigh (Sitting Too Low) I watched the Dave Weckl DVD and saw the segment about posture on the kit.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: Audiocr381ve on September 23, 2008, 05:16:17 PM
I can't tell you how many times I used to hit my man berries going for that huge rim shot break!
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: vicfirth93 on September 23, 2008, 05:46:15 PM
I can't tell you how many times I used to hit my man berries going for that huge rim shot break!

lol. Thats funny.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: Drumwen on September 23, 2008, 10:51:17 PM
Sore muscles and busted knuckles! I have rock drummer tendencies! Lol!
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: theLearner on September 24, 2008, 12:18:53 AM
Have u ever experienced cramps in your forearms that makes you fingers cramp into a fist, or your arm and hand get that tingling felling like its going to sleep.  I just palyed 10 min ago at college minisrty and all of that hit me like a brick.   However, i know i got a history of cramps so before a gig i drink 2 bottles of gatorade and during.     

a banana a day will cure that....I use them to prevent cramps playin
sports.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: xcalybur32 on September 24, 2008, 08:21:37 AM
One Sunday we were good into service, I mean the spirit was moving man and I was just going to town and my fiance had bought me a "Roc and Soc" thone with the raised "Man Part" for comfort I guess. So I'm giving praise with my hands and I started my "hopping lick" you know where you bounce more than you should and when gravity kicked in and I came down, I came back to "earth" on the wrong part of the seat and made "wine" out of my man grapes. Painful. I had to hand the sticks over to the apprentice until I could stop crying.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: xcalybur32 on September 24, 2008, 08:25:03 AM
Well not crying for real, but a 300 lbs man landing on "himself" is not a good feeling. Oh and I've pinched and trapped fingers in the tripods of the snare and cymbals stand countless times. Does that count?
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: BigFoot_BigThumb on September 24, 2008, 01:45:28 PM
Have u ever experienced cramps in your forearms that makes you fingers cramp into a fist, or your arm and hand get that tingling felling like its going to sleep.       

Definitely have experienced this.  I remeber about 4 years ago I did a New Years gig, and I had to set up by a huge picture window and I could feel the cold coming through.  And mind you this place was right across the street from the Ohio River so you know it was cold.  Anyway, I did the gig and after about 4 hours we got to the end of the set, and my body just locked up.

 Between sweating, and the cold, it was not good.  I honestly couldn't finish.  Good thing we were pretty much done.  The crowd was demanding an encore.  I just couldn't do it.  Fortunately, the bass player could play drums, and the guitarist switched to the bass.  After the gig was over, the bandleader came by the window and when I explained to him about the cold and he could feel it for himself, he understood.  On top of that, I had to drive us back because no one else could stay up. 

When I finally got home and got my gear in the house, I finally got into the bed and got some rest.  The next afternoon, I finally got up and I could barely move.  Once I got another hot shower, I finally got myself right.

I've also had the occasional cramp in the thigh, blisters on my fingers and hands, and I've even hit myself in the eye with a stick.

The sacrifices we make for the art.     
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: b_jizzle20 on September 24, 2008, 02:22:08 PM
I got a cramp in my calf during a shout
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: HEART-BEAT on September 25, 2008, 12:42:18 PM

FYI: Don't do cymbal grabs on a cracked crash!!

I had blood all over my boy set.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: iDrum. on September 30, 2008, 08:35:20 PM
At times, the sticks give me blisters on my finger its  >:( so annoying.....
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: CJKeyboardPlaya on October 01, 2008, 02:26:55 PM
At times, the sticks give me blisters on my finger its  >:( so annoying.....

Yea same here... but i get blisters on my hand... i get them really bad wen im playin shout and holdin da stick so tight!!!
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: bigblackdrummer on October 02, 2008, 03:46:32 PM
Ok I have you guys beat! Yeah Ive had all the stuff you guys are saying and have knocked my balls so hard I almost turned them into fallopian tubes... I had to have surgery on both my wrists and I was fully awake and watched them do the surgery. I had carpel tunnel in both hands and it made it really hard to hold the sticks or sometimes even feel them, that's why Im big on proper technique.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: DatDrummaboy87 on October 02, 2008, 03:52:22 PM
Ok I have you guys beat! Yeah Ive had all the stuff you guys are saying and have knocked my balls so hard I almost turned them into fallopian tubes... I had to have surgery on both my wrists and I was fully awake and watched them do the surgery. I had carpel tunnel in both hands and it made it really hard to hold the sticks or sometimes even feel them, that's why Im big on proper technique.

um...why the heck were you awake?
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: bigblackdrummer on October 02, 2008, 03:56:22 PM
um...why the heck were you awake?

They froze the areas (which hurt more then the surgery) strapped me to a table with my arms off to the side and started cutting. I was watching the feed from the camera and mirrors.
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: flamtapz on October 24, 2008, 04:32:43 PM
gave myself a bloody tooth, broke a stick popped blood vessel in my eye lol ;D
Title: Re: Drum injuries..share your injuries
Post by: Audiocr381ve on October 24, 2008, 05:19:09 PM
Ok I have you guys beat! Yeah Ive had all the stuff you guys are saying and have knocked my balls so hard I almost turned them into fallopian tubes... I had to have surgery on both my wrists and I was fully awake and watched them do the surgery. I had carpel tunnel in both hands and it made it really hard to hold the sticks or sometimes even feel them, that's why Im big on proper technique.

oh wow.