My bone broke during an arm wrestling match with a stranger – a year later it still hasn’t fully recovered

A woman’s arm broke after she got into an arm-wrestling fight with a complete stranger, and a year later the arm still hasn’t fully recovered.

Daisy Johnson, 24, from London, was celebrating Easter with her friends when she decided to take on a man in an intense arm wrestling match.

The 24-year-old suffered a spiral fracture of her humerus, a bone in the upper arm that connects to the shoulder, and was in severe pain for the next few days.

She said: ‘There was a conversation about the subject of gym and my ears perked up. This led to the friendly match after I declared that, ironically, I could “beat anyone in an arm wrestle.” My arm felt like the limp arm in Harry Potter!

‘The pain started to increase as the adrenaline wore off. The humerus then had to be manipulated back together, which was extremely painful!’

Daisy was celebrating Easter Sunday with her friends at the local pub when a complete stranger from a nearby table came over and struck up a conversation with the group – and once the gym came up, she decided to join in.

One thing led to another, and Daisy then challenged the stranger to an arm wrestle, confident she would beat him, and the pair started their fight on the table.

Shockingly, Daisy’s arm broke during the struggle, with an unmistakable cracking sound, and she was rushed to hospital.

She spent four days there after her broken arm was manipulated back into place and recovered with the help of painkillers.

Normally the fitness fanatic spends most of her time in the gym, but with her broken arm that was not possible and she spent the following months trying to regain her strength.

To start, she focused mainly on other parts of the gym while her arm was in a sling, and once she was ready, she started trying to get her arm repaired.

However, after a year she still feels like her arm has not fully recovered and even says it is ‘slightly deformed’ and ‘shorter’ than her other arm – but she is still determined to get back on track come.

She said: ‘At the time I thought I had just dislocated my elbow joint and I was convinced that as soon as someone put it back in I could go back to the pub!

The 24-year-old suffered a spiral fracture of her humerus, a bone in the upper arm that connects to the shoulder, and was in severe pain for the next few days.

She spent four days in hospital after her broken arm was manipulated back into place and recovered with the help of painkillers

Shockingly, Daisy’s arm broke during the struggle, with an unmistakable cracking sound, and she was rushed to hospital.

‘Everyone thought I was joking because I was pretty sure I had done something and had to go to hospital, until realizing that my arm looked visually deformed, everyone quickly realized I wasn’t joking.

‘I had to hold it against my chest, otherwise it would literally swing around loosely. I spent about four days in the hospital on a ton of morphine.

‘It was frustrating. As a girl who spends most of her time in the gym strength training, it was mentally difficult for me to have to completely change my training.

‘However, no fitness journey will ever be without challenges and once I accepted this and viewed my injury as a challenge, I was able to make the most progress.

‘I discarded the sling about three months after surgery, but it took months before I got to the point where I could put body weight on the injured arm.

‘After a year of recovery, the arm is still not completely back to how it was and I’m not sure if it will regain its original mobility, strength and range of motion.

‘Visually the injured arm is slightly deformed and therefore shorter than the good arm. But I would like to get stronger every day.’