The 6 Most Gruesome Injuries Suffered During a Sports Match

Nobody likes seeing their favorite player go down with a groin injury or a high ankle sprain. However, while those kinds of injuries can keep players on the disabled list for a long time, at least they usually don’t endanger their careers. Not all sports injuries are so mild. In fact, some are so gruesome that they make your stomach turn. And, obviously, those are the ones we’re looking at today. If you are interested, you should check out this article of Insidermonkey on the most gruesome injuries suffered during a sports match too.

Chances are, if you’re an avid sports fan you have seen your fair share of injuries, and I’m not just talking about a basketball player coming down awkwardly on their foot either. With LeBron James cramping up in Game 1 of the NBA Finals this week, perhaps it would be a good time to show what real injuries look like. Dislocated elbows and fingers bending the wrong way are some of the most common injuries that doctors report seeing. There has also been an increase in the amount of ligament tears in the knees and other joints, a trend that has encouraged coaches to start to preach how to protect yourself as a player a little more than in previous years.

The following are some of the most brutal injuries to occur in the world of sports in the past several decades. For the most part, these athletes came out alright in the end. But at the time of the injury, there was no doubt that fans were thinking the two worst words you’d want to hear as a professional athlete; career-ending. However, you should know that even after being seriously injured or fell too much behind, some team made good comeback and even won the game. So, if you want to be inspired, you should check out these It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over: The 10 Most Incredible Comebacks in Sports History instead.