bummer about the stitches at our club we have restraint tables and ground restraints some of the guys fire up there planes on the tables, but for me it seems dangerous you just confirmed it .when I fire up my plane for flight I always do it on the ground so I almost never have to pick up the plane and transmitter at the same time a similar thing happened to me although I was a bit more lucky so ground starts in restraints for me now, when I have the throttle at idle I then walk/roll my plane to the runway for a rev up before T.O .when I first got into this hobby the motors we used were smaller and not as powerful at least the ones I was using, after getting smacked back then I recall it being a really painful expierence hope you heal up fast B.T.