Asha falling over & injuring her hip Jan 2015, rare accident of a bad hip cartilage tear on video

[@jbrandona119]

The blog post on this was very informative!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

I'm glad you think so. I wan ted to share the details and lessons I learned from this injury. Tiredness causes mistakes, is the summary. And deadlines make me ignore my tiredness!

[@edzhu2023]

Practice makes perfect! I love your video.

[@fmgfabio]

I hope you get better real soon!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

@@fmgfabio Thank you. I’m fine. I did this injury exactly 10 yrs ago. This was a throwback post… I’m pretty functional considering I never had surgery to repair the injury. Feel very lucky.

[@Quartered_Rodent]

Is it when you shifted your left foot? I know it's been awhile since this has occurred and i didn't know it was due to rollerblading. I'm so glad you managed to recover so that you can still present us with such good quality and informative videos.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

@@Quartered_Rodent yes that moment right after the left foot “flips” from forwards to backwards, I don’t flip it quite far enough and so my body feel inwards to a place my hip flexibility wouldn’t go. So the cartilage tore. I’m also so grateful I somehow managed to maintain my career with such an injury. I’ll have to operate one day I’m sure but while I don’t have to I won’t. I’m also chicken when it comes to procedures, hospitals etc. 🤣

[@Quartered_Rodent]

@@SkatefreshVideos It looks so incredibly subtle no one would have guessed there was damage involved in that moment. As we get older I notice that sudden movements can somehow be a miscalculated effort and with no warning sign the next morning will be a reminding factor "hey remember when you turned to look over your shoulder when backing up the car? well YOU DID IT WRONG... have 2-3 days of pain!" so I can at the very least understand. Of course until that day comes when surgery is absolutely necessary do what you must right? Until then I want to express that you have a smooth and safe skate session everytime. Bless.

[@OVXX666]

wish i fell like that though

[@InlinePilot]

Wow, scary to see how such a seemingly small incident can cause a cartilage tear 🤕. Let me see if I can figure out what happened. Reminds me of my own failed lunge-turn-powerslide attempts where my pivoting foot gets stuck at the heel. Your pivoting foot clearly got stuck on the inside edge when you lost your balance, which made it much harder to keep your foot pivoting further in order to keep you heel pointed towards your center. Though I'm not sure if that inside edge was the cause of the incident, or maybe that was just the consequence of putting too much weight at the heel, and/or transferring your weight too early to the sliding foot, instead of staying more on top of that pivoting foot. What do you think could have prevented this?

[@sutters7251]

Yep not enough weight over the stance leg. Head to the inside. Probably tired. You just stop concentrating and don’t realise where your body is. Realising when to call it as a good day and get the skates off is a hard but necessary skill to learn.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

@@InlinePilot Good analysis! Tiredness was the main culprit. I had been filming one of my online course series for 30 days in Rio and it was about 35 degrees Celsius the whole time, sometimes hitting 40 degrees. Super HOT! I had a deadline to finish filming before I left the country the next day! I had no strength left in my legs and I couldnt correct the inside edge (that should have been a centre edge) on the left skate. I also didn’t do the “flip” from forwards to backwards on the left skate correctly as it involves being in a deep lunge on one front wheel for a moment which takes some muscles….so the transition was incomplete, that created the inside edge and fatigue meant I couldn’t correct it…. I learned never to skate into this level of exhaustion again….

[@InlinePilot]

@@SkatefreshVideos Thanks! That makes total sense, and is something I also need to keep in mind all the time, because I often try to push myself to exhaustion on purpose, in order to train my muscles. I also don't find it immediately clear how loss of strenght is affecting my skating. The two main culprits for me are the calf muscle while skating backwards and the tibialis anterior muscle when skating forwards. Both are quite weak from never needing them much outside of skating. Recently, when I was doing backwards parallel turns I suddenly couldn't turn anti-clock-wise anymore. Whenever I tried to pick up my right foot to grab the inside of the turn to take a wide underpush, I went straight backwards and almost fell. I was thinking "what's wrong with my right leg?". It took a couple of repeats before I realised that the problem was not with my right leg at all, but with the left leg that stayed on the ground. It was too exhausted to hold my weight + turning force all by itself on the front foot. Weird how the particular effects of exhaustion just seem to escape consious awareness...

[@varigabor1]

Imádom! 😍🥰🤩 alig látszik a szándékosság. Az én "Esések" című videómon sajnos már előre látszik az arcomon, hogy el fogok esni.

[@Atem_S.]

ouch.. Hope you get well soon!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Thank you, I am. This injury happened 10 years ago. I just made a post about it because it was recently the 10yr anniversary!

[@Atem_S.]

@@SkatefreshVideos Ahhhhh.. ok! taught it was recent!

[@kryptoncelis1446]

Follow up the turn with backwards shift to prevent falling

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Not sure I understand what you mean but yes the turn of that support skate did not go as planned and it didn't turn through enough of the 180 degrees needed to get fully to backwards.

[@andrecinelli]

I had a similiar, less gracious, fall... My left inner thigh/groin suffered. At the time I didn't notice it to be bad, but I aldo ended up doing phisio.

[@SkatefreshVideos]

+Andre Cinelli Hope you are recovering. How did the physic go?

[@andrecinelli]

SkatefreshAsha I am better after 2 months, but not fully recovered yet.

[@felipemoreira8308]

Qual parte do corpo você machucou, Asha?

[@gsaraiva5632]

+Felipe Moreira creio que a região do quadril lado esquerdo!

[@felipemoreira8308]

Gabriel Lopes da Silva Saraiva pareceu ser uma queda inofensiva

[@gsaraiva5632]

+Felipe Moreira Sim pareceu! mas como ela mesma disse vários powerslides o dia todo!

[@SkatefreshVideos]

+Gabriel Lopes da Silva Saraiva Sim correto, foi cuadril izquierda. Nao fiz a rotacao correto com a perna izquierda de frente pra costas e meu joelho isqueiro ficou caindo pra dentro. Sempre tinha quadril isqueiro meio fraco, mas esse foi meu lado não preferido, então mais razao pra fazer direito...... Espero que ajude em alguma forma.....

[@gsaraiva5632]

SkatefreshAsha Melhoras!

[@sutters7251]

It does look like an innocuous fall but I bet you had a small or partial labrum tear too. I’m 52 now but 18 months ago injured my hip doing Jiu Jitsu. Found out the hip pain was a labrum tear plus osteoarthritis. I had no symptoms before. Well stupid me, who like you still feels the injury, decided last week I would take my daughter to the local roller disco to try out her first skates. I haven’t skated for 34 years!! All well after two hours really impressed her. Got tired caught my feet doing reverse cross overs and went over like this. Shooting pain outside of hip. Bet I’ve torn the labrum again. I’m not going to the specialist back to glute bridges, core work and horse stance morning and night. I’m going to get myself a new pair of inlines. I’ll never learn!!!😂

[@SkatefreshVideos]

Bless you I'm so sorry to hear this. Yes it was a labrum tear I had and who knows if mine is still torn as they say that cartilage can't heal itself as it has no blood supply. But my pain slowly decreased over the first 2 years and I doubled my efforts with yoga and body strength exercises. I think my glutes are pretty strong and are holding the joint together. When I stop doing daily yoga for about a week I start to get pain inside my hip which then disappears when I get back on the glute work, so I KNOW it's to do with strong muscles supporting the joint. You're doing the right thing for sure. Don't make the hip do more than it wants to in terms of internal and external rotation, but within that strengthen as much as possible. I'm with you in spirit in every bridge and lunge!