I played football in High School until I broke my back. What should I do now? Do you have any advice?

[sparke328]

Aww dude that sucks! I play soccer and tore my acl last September. I've been out for only 8 months and I miss it— I can only imagine what you're going through!

I'm sorry but you definitely need to do PT or even do exercises for your back— fight through the pain! 2 days after my acl surgery my parents started making me do exercises to get my mobility back in my knee and it hurt, A LOT. I was screaming, crying, yelling, etc. The pain was so intense but with continuous exercise and movement I was able to get full range of motion and now when i move and run the is no pain! I don't know what kind of exercises you're supposed to do for a broken back but still— try to do them.

Maybe try other sports like swimming, XC running, or even go out for a play/musical if you have them at your school.

You can also always help out with football— whether it is helping coach or manage. (Maybe even focus on fantasy football more lol)

I hope this helps! Sorry it's so long lol.

[MasRus]

Focus on what you have and not what you lost. You could have never walked again.

Take this time to find another passion figure out what else makes you happy and begin looking at that.

There is always more than 1 route to happiness

[jakerson181]

Depending on where your interest lies, you should look into either coaching or officiating football. At your age, that would probably be youth leagues like Pop Warner for now but as you get older and are in college maybe looking at junior high or high school levels. I officiated jv high school football when I was younger but my real love was officiating basketball and did that at high school varsity and small college levels. It's loads of fun and when you're the ref running the game, you are the man.

[sensible27]

Well I doubt you could do very much without extensive financial support so focus nore on what you do have and can do instead of what you cannot. You can still walk and stuff is a great thing... I doubt foorball (American football) is the best thing to do in this world... you can probably liceve without it.

[andreasderjuengere]

There will be other sports or activities that are less challenging to your back.
As for pain or (relative) 'disabilities': Over time we adjust and at some stage may not even notice it any more.
Example: I have a disabled finger joint; it looks 'funny', but does not restrict me in any way. Only the first few weeks following the accident were strange because the geometry and function now was different.

[Iron_Man]

I don’t know I keep going to therapy and try another sport maybe professional boxing

[Lonen]

I would look up online games you could play and become good at a multiple team game

[BeMuse]

Become a feminist, they’re pretty spineless.

[Mikaelsanches]

Supposedly swimming is good for your back.

[Anonymous]

Table tennis? Chess? Maybe regular tennis? Soccer?

[lolcraft]

Cannabis.