pool related injuries
Interesting topic. In fact I encountered a few pool related injuries in my pool career personally:
1) ripped muscle fibers in my left thigh - I played snooker and I played a shot which required me to extent as much as possible while standing on one foot - I slipped while shooting this shot and this caused rupture in my thigh muscle. It took me 3-4 months to recover from that.
2) inflammation of eyelid - I basically played about 40 hours of pool in 5 days in smoke-filled poolhall and my eyelid just started to burn so much I had to go to doc - the inflammation caused some kind of cyst to grow on the inside of my eyelid and it had to be surgically removed...
3) blockation of neck (too many times to count...)
4) cueball hit into the kidneys.... - once I played in this poolhall where they didnt maintain the tables at all and one player put cb on the spot to break the rack - but there was a hole on the spot so when he shot the break cb took off the table and hit me into the kidneys...basically I fell to the floor, my legs "switched off" - it was kinda funny because 5 mins ago the same player shot his break shot and cb flew like 20 centimeters near my head...we had quite a laugh about it..I told him that he had a killer instinct....
One funny pool related accident was even reported on national news here 2-3 years ago. Some guys played on coin operated table and the cueball got stuck in the return mechanism. So one of the guys tried to reach it with his hand. He pushed his arm deeper and deeper into the return mechanism...and guess what...his arm got stuck too... they tried to pull his arm from the table for 45 minutes with no success. Finally they had to call emergency, so firefighthers unit came. Even they had trouble releasing his arm from the return mechanism so they decided to disassamble the table which finally helped them to release the guy...
Interesting topic. In fact I encountered a few pool related injuries in my pool career personally:
1) ripped muscle fibers in my left thigh - I played snooker and I played a shot which required me to extent as much as possible while standing on one foot - I slipped while shooting this shot and this caused rupture in my thigh muscle. It took me 3-4 months to recover from that.
2) inflammation of eyelid - I basically played about 40 hours of pool in 5 days in smoke-filled poolhall and my eyelid just started to burn so much I had to go to doc - the inflammation caused some kind of cyst to grow on the inside of my eyelid and it had to be surgically removed...
3) blockation of neck (too many times to count...)
4) cueball hit into the kidneys.... - once I played in this poolhall where they didnt maintain the tables at all and one player put cb on the spot to break the rack - but there was a hole on the spot so when he shot the break cb took off the table and hit me into the kidneys...basically I fell to the floor, my legs "switched off" - it was kinda funny because 5 mins ago the same player shot his break shot and cb flew like 20 centimeters near my head...we had quite a laugh about it..I told him that he had a killer instinct....
One funny pool related accident was even reported on national news here 2-3 years ago. Some guys played on coin operated table and the cueball got stuck in the return mechanism. So one of the guys tried to reach it with his hand. He pushed his arm deeper and deeper into the return mechanism...and guess what...his arm got stuck too...
they tried to pull his arm from the table for 45 minutes with no success. Finally they had to call emergency, so firefighthers unit came. Even they had trouble releasing his arm from the return mechanism so they decided to disassamble the table which finally helped them to release the guy... 
