Complication

In the same way that rumours are spread and constantly exaggerated so injures are talked up in order to make then interesting. A classic example is when someone gets a case of the shits. No one wants to say that they have diarrhoea, preferring instead to say they have gastroenteritis. I don't want to take anything away from legitimate suffers but in most cases the ailment follows a heavy couple of nights consuming copious amounts of alcohol. Using this general rule of the more syllables your ailment has the better and more sympathetic people are too your plight(shit = 1, gastro = 6). If you fall on the slopes and hurt your ribs its sounds so much better (but very improbable that they would be still standing) to say you've 'broken' a rib. Similarly instead of bruising your knee saying that you have injured your anterior curciate ligament. And surprisingly most of these breaks are fully repaired within a few days. With injuries like these whose needs physiotherapists?