Question

[lilgymmie7]

**I am not looking for medical advice.**

DD is not a complainer and chances are she is just fine, but I was wondering...
Today she came home from practice with tears. She said she fell on her arm while at vault. She tripped over her own feet on the run way. She has a red mark on the back of her shoulder and flinched somewhat when I touched her. I asked her to move her shoulder up-down, left-right and had no pain. She also progressed to doing pirouettes on her hands with no apparent pain.
My question is whether someone has found something serious after a fall when their DDs or DSs 'looked' okay. I don't want to miss anything and I also don't want to act like that 'crazy' parent who rushes her child to the ER for everything.
Again, she is able to use her arm. DD is not a complainer and this is the first time she has come home to tell me she got hurt. Yeah, I'm going to make a great gym mom! I think I was far better at this with older DD! This is my baby!

 

[Deleted member D3987]

wait till the morning.

 

[lilgymmie7]

wait till the morning.

Thank you dunno. I will do that. I'm sure her coach would have called if they'd seen it, but knowing DD she fell and got back up without saying a word.

 

[Maitland]

If she has full ROM (range of motion) and can put pressure on it, she is most likely OK. If it were my daughter, I would still ice, rest, and give an anti-inflammatory if there is swelling or discomfort. If the pain continues (or worsens) or if she is "guarding" her arm (holding it close to her body, holding it only one position, or refusing to let anyone touch it), then she should be seen. There is no harm in waiting it out unless she is in moderate to strong pain or is "guarding." Good luck and let us know how she is doing!

 

[cher062]

Give it a day and see how she is. If she is still complaining take her to the DR. I'd rather be know as the mom who goes to the DR to much then miss something. It sounds like its just going to be a bruise as she seems to have good range of motion and can put pressure on it.

As she moves forward she will mostlikely have worse than that at some point its knowing your kid and how they act when they are seriously hurt is the hard part.

 

[lilgymmie7]

Thanks everyone! Cher, you said it. I would rather be known as that kind of 'crazy' than to have missed something and just let her work while injured. She is starting to show a nasty bruise. I hope that is all it is. She hasn't said anything about her arm since the morning when she came home. And yep...I have to get used to it if she keeps going. The 'graceful' gymnast tripped over a mat before her vault...

 

[NGL780309]

I was confused from your description on the red spot. Is it a carpet burn? My graceful DD was running full force to the bars and her and a teammate ran into each other and DD got a nasty carpet burn on her arm from the vault runway.

I hope she feels better soon. I'd wait just a little bit. I remember when DD hurt her elbow recently she was kind of okay that day, but the next day she wouldn't bend it, put weight on it and was holding it against her body. We did see the Dr and I was glad I took her. I rather know than not know.

 

[gymdog]

Sounds like it's bruised if it hurts to press on it but not to move it around. I'd keep an eye on it and it's very possible for a kid to feel "fine" right after getting injured, before it hits them. So it's always important when there is any question to take a time out and see how things progress.

 

[Granny Smith]

I agree with others, I'd wait it out and see how she is doing today. Most likely there is nothing wrong, but I have learned that these girls have incredibly high pain tolerance and what would send most kids/people in general to the hospital these girls shrug it off like it is nothing.

Ex/ My dd just had surgery on her elbow this past Tuesday. She had been competing this season, no problems, nothing traumatic happened. Around Regionals, she said her elbow was hurting her somewhat. She qualified to Easterns and kept plugging along. Then her elbow really started to bother her. It was swollen and we just thought that she had tendonitis. I gave her the choice to go to the Drs to see what's going on or go to Easterns. Since dd is older, I felt she had the right to make this decision - knowing that the Dr would shut her down. She chose Easterns. As she continued to train, less than a week before Easterns the elbow started locking. Yikes, locking is not good. She cut back on her training on bars and vault, but still continued to train. She competed on 5/7 at Easterns and we were at the Dr's on Monday, 5/9.

After the x-ray and MRI, it was determined that the locking was cause by "loose bodies" in her elbow that would require surgery to remove them and she had OCD (not obsessive compulsive disorder - ha, ha some long medical term for her elbow). After the surgery we met with the surgeon who told us that he removed (5) 1cm bone chips from her elbow and that her legion (the area where the bone chips came from) was Traumatic Arthritis Stage IV - the worst stage you can get.

All of this from a kid, who other than saying my elbow hurts, pushed through everyday in training and never really let up.

 

[NGL780309]

I agree with others, I'd wait it out and see how she is doing today. Most likely there is nothing wrong, but I have learned that these girls have incredibly high pain tolerance and what would send most kids/people in general to the hospital these girls shrug it off like it is nothing.

Ex/ My dd just had surgery on her elbow this past Tuesday. She had been competing this season, no problems, nothing traumatic happened. Around Regionals, she said her elbow was hurting her somewhat. She qualified to Easterns and kept plugging along. Then her elbow really started to bother her. It was swollen and we just thought that she had tendonitis. I gave her the choice to go to the Drs to see what's going on or go to Easterns. Since dd is older, I felt she had the right to make this decision - knowing that the Dr would shut her down. She chose Easterns. As she continued to train, less than a week before Easterns the elbow started locking. Yikes, locking is not good. She cut back on her training on bars and vault, but still continued to train. She competed on 5/7 at Easterns and we were at the Dr's on Monday, 5/9.

After the x-ray and MRI, it was determined that the locking was cause by "loose bodies" in her elbow that would require surgery to remove them and she had OCD (not obsessive compulsive disorder - ha, ha some long medical term for her elbow). After the surgery we met with the surgeon who told us that he removed (5) 1cm bone chips from her elbow and that her legion (the area where the bone chips came from) was Traumatic Arthritis Stage IV - the worst stage you can get.

All of this from a kid, who other than saying my elbow hurts, pushed through everyday in training and never really let up.

I'm sorry to hear that. Will she heal fully?

 

[Deleted member D3987]

ocd= osteochondritis desecans. more likely than not due to yurchenkos. follow the doctor's program. she'll return in no time. gina nuccio from georgia had surgeries twice for ocd. look at her now!

 

[lilgymmie7]

Once again, Thank you all for your input. DD is perfectly fine! It is only a bruise. We went to Six Flags yesterday for DS's birthday, and we did not hear even one complaint by DD. Mom & Dad were far more exhausted than any of the kids! The usual...