A new use for plastic protectors - prevent fractured sternum

[JEC]

Came back from Nationals with a sore point in the middle of my sternum. I recall getting hit by another "Veteran" during my DE, but did not think much out of it. For a different reason, I had re-scheduled a chest CT after Nationals. As I still have pressure point tenderness, I got the surprise today when I looked the "incidental finding" myself in the imaging console. The length of the fracture is about the size of an Epee tip. I guess I will be using a plastic chest protector now.

[KD5MDK]

Sorry to hear that.

Just to have a little fun with words, did you go 15-0 in general against veterans, or who do you remember one touch as if it were unique?

[nahouw]

Came back from Nationals with a sore point in the middle of my sternum. I recall getting hit by another "Veteran" during my DE, but did not think much out of it. For a different reason, I had re-scheduled a chest CT after Nationals. As I still have pressure point tenderness, I got the surprise today when I looked the "incidental finding" myself in the imaging console. The length of the fracture is about the size of an Epee tip. I guess I will be using a plastic chest protector now.

I had a fractured sternum once, and I immediately knew it -- my chest swelled up tremendously (golf ball sized lump on my sternum) and I had a very hard time breathing and was afraid to go to sleep that night. How it happened was by fencing a beginner who full lunged with a counter-attack.

But there is nothing that you can do for it -- only time and rest and it gets better.

[Frank Pratt]

you have love those beginner epeeists! When I was learning to fence, I counter-attacked my coach hard enough send the tip though the top edge of her chest protector and into her sternum. I didn't break anything, but we both got a commemorating mark that lasted for weeks.

[Craig]

And this is a very good reason why the FIE can't ban the rigid chest protector. That is unless the FIE wants to hire the ghost of Cochran for liability litigation...

Came back from Nationals with a sore point in the middle of my sternum. I recall getting hit by another "Veteran" during my DE, but did not think much out of it. For a different reason, I had re-scheduled a chest CT after Nationals. As I still have pressure point tenderness, I got the surprise today when I looked the "incidental finding" myself in the imaging console. The length of the fracture is about the size of an Epee tip. I guess I will be using a plastic chest protector now.

[Wizardly]

You're telling me a pad (which can bend and flex and wont prevent the point from catching as it would on flesh quite nearly the way rigid, smooth materials will) can't be used in place of rigid plastic to do the same thing?