I have been snowboarding for 15 years now...and have loved every year of it.
Anyway, my first day out I broke my wrist. At first I thought it was sprained, so I kept riding the rest of the day, falling on it continually.
For the next three weeks, I dealt with the pain, thinking it was just a sprain. Then, one day, while opening my locker at school, I pulled up on the lock and heard a loud pop, followed by an intense pain.
Several X-rays later, I found out I had been walking around with a broken wrist since I wrecked snowboarding. The doctor was amazed that I could deal with the pain, and that it WASNT infected, though I dont understand how it could become infected without the fracture being compund.
After the cast was on, I snowboarded all winter. I couldnt break it further, and the doctor said it was kosher to snowboard with the cast..so away I went.
To this day, that wrist still bothers me, mostly (according to the Dr) because I didnt get it taken care of right away.