Ride report - Finally back on the bike!
C3Hammer
been three weeks since I got the fixator (http://www.verts.com/fixator) off.
It was so cool to shake the cobwebs out. I took it pretty easy, as the doc
said I'm not supposed to fall on it for at least 4 more weeks. Braking
bumps are still pretty painful to handle. Small, and I mean really small
jumps and little whoops were no problem.
It has been a painful rehab so far. Earlier this week, I could finally do
pushups again. I'm back to about 80% mobility and maybe 60% strength. I'm
hoping to get back out again before the next snowfall for a little more
"rehab".
SCW and Mark, how are your wrists doing these days?
Pete Carney
c3ha...@verts.com
husa...@my-deja.com
my pelvis in a non-eventful 2nd gear fall. I was riding with spode
named "Paul" <g>. (actually he smoked my butt a Rampart.)We hooked up
here on RMD to go for a ride.
Anyway, broke it beginning of June and couldn't ride till September. I
was very cautious at first. But thankfully my full stupidity has
returned and I'm flying again.
Jon
In article <83hv2j$36b$1...@news.aros.net>,
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Before you buy.
Mark Nelson
You are the man! My hat is off to you.
My wrist is coming along. I'm going to therapy 3 days a week and it's
helping. My strength is doing well. Flexability is nearly normal too. My
problem is weight bearing on the hand. It kills me to try do pushups. The combo
of flexing and weight bearing don't seen to like each other. I can do them if I
do finger tip or closed fist pushups, but with the palm down it hurts!
I'm ready to try riding, but decided that it wouldn't look good if I got hurt
riding while in therapy. The military frowns on such things. But the day my
therapy ends I'll be taking the YZ for a spin.
Thanks for the tips and helping me persuade the doc into giving me a referal
to Occupational therapy.
>I got back on the bike, 10 weeks to the day after breaking my wrist. It has
>been three weeks since I got the fixator (http://www.verts.com/fixator) off.
>It was so cool to shake the cobwebs out. I took it pretty easy, as the doc
>said I'm not supposed to fall on it for at least 4 more weeks. Braking
>bumps are still pretty painful to handle. Small, and I mean really small
>jumps and little whoops were no problem.
>
>It has been a painful rehab so far. Earlier this week, I could finally do
>pushups again. I'm back to about 80% mobility and maybe 60% strength. I'm
>hoping to get back out again before the next snowfall for a little more
>"rehab".
>
>SCW and Mark, how are your wrists doing these days?
>
>Pete Carney
>c3ha...@verts.com
>
Mark
'99 YZ BIG
'96 yz small
#567 OCCRA
Uwe Hale
wrote:
> My wrist is coming along.
>
Hey Mark, what happened to your wrist?
Uwe Hale - 99 GasGas EC200, 89 YZ250
http://www.rrdr.org
http://www.smackovermotorsports.com
Mark Nelson
Here's the Readers Digest condensed version.
I crashed back in Oct. I tweaked my wrist bad. They did surgery on it because
the Navicular looked broken. It turned out to be an old break. I was in a cast
for a week and a splint for a month. Now I'm in the rebuilding of strenght and
flexability stages. I hope to ride again by mid Jan. I could now, but don't
want to push it.
Lets just say Oct was a bad month for me. I had food poisoning, chicken pox,
and surgery! I hope the new year goes better! :0)
Uwe wrote:
>Hey Mark, what happened to your wrist?
>
>Uwe Hale - 99 GasGas EC200, 89 YZ250
>http://www.rrdr.org
>http://www.smackovermotorsports.com
Mark
Eric Myers
breaking my scaphoid and dislocating two of the six mcnuggets in the
wrist too. I was the benefactor of six stainless pins. The pins and my
cast came out and off just before Thanksgiving putting me in a splint
until about middle of December. My flexibility is slowly coming back
and I can actually touch my pinky with my thumb now pretty easily, but
holy crap, no way can I do a pushup on that wrist unless I close fist
it. I still need to get a CT scan done to check progress.
I'll be happy if I can do standard pushup in the next three months or
so.
Eric Myers
C3hammer
Sounds good! Hey, my wrist still hurts when I do the pushups. I can do
chin-ups fine, but pushing on the wrist still hurts. It's the only way to
get it back though. Riding the bicycle (non-motorized) has been the best
thing for it, next to stretching. It hurts under braking, but every time I
go out it feels better.
Keep at it.
Pete
Mark Nelson <c5flt...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:19991221184629...@ng-cg1.aol.com...
> Pete
> You are the man! My hat is off to you.
> My wrist is coming along. I'm going to therapy 3 days a week and it's
> helping. My strength is doing well. Flexability is nearly normal too. My
> problem is weight bearing on the hand. It kills me to try do pushups. The
combo
> of flexing and weight bearing don't seen to like each other. I can do them
if I
> do finger tip or closed fist pushups, but with the palm down it hurts!
> I'm ready to try riding, but decided that it wouldn't look good if I got
hurt
> riding while in therapy. The military frowns on such things. But the day
my
> therapy ends I'll be taking the YZ for a spin.
> Thanks for the tips and helping me persuade the doc into giving me a
referal
> to Occupational therapy.
C3hammer
My radius bone was broken into about 15 pieces right at the joint and back
for about an inch. Luckily it was only one bone, and one that gets pretty
decent blood flow. Yours sounds like a nightmare.
I was telling Mark earlier, the best way to get it working again is to:
- Warm up first
- Stretch it every which direction until you cry.
- Screw grabber screws into a soft piece of wood about 50 times every other
day.
- Wrist curls with what ever weight is appropriate.
- Stretch till you cry some more.
- Ice it after each and every time you reef on it. You can't see the
swelling / inflammation, but its there.
- Take lots of Advil after, but not before you work it out.
Pain is your friend until it is fully back. Too much and you'll get
tendonitis, too little and it won't come back and will hurt forever. It
will be stiff and sore every morning when you wake up. Time will not make
it better! It will just calcify with the result being limited mobility and
pain.
I've had 14 broken bones 10 of which were in the wrist / thumb area. Yeah,
Yeah, I know I'm a bone head. I've broken them doing everything you can
imagine. The bottom line is you need to make it hurt to get it going again.
Good luck with it!
Pete Carney
c3ha...@verts.com
Eric Myers <emy...@nojunkmail.mc.net> wrote in message
news:38606AD2...@nojunkmail.mc.net...
Chris
Years back, I shattered all the bones in my wrist, severed 3 tendons,
and broke both bones in my lower arm. If I make a fist I have about 10
degrees of up/down movement. A good fall will undo lots of repairs.
I'm not sure if a wrist brace is feasible but would like to hear if
anyone is using one. My current doctor has stated that they would
state that a brace is necessary (for insurance coverage).
I'll cover my shattered femur in another post....
Thanks, Chris
99kx250
In article <38606AD2...@nojunkmail.mc.net>, Eric Myers
<emy...@nojunkmail.mc.net> wrote:
> I am so with you guys on this. I did my wrist in the middle of
> August
> breaking my scaphoid and dislocating two of the six mcnuggets in
> the
> wrist too. I was the benefactor of six stainless pins. The pins
> and my
> cast came out and off just before Thanksgiving putting me in a
> splint
> until about middle of December. My flexibility is slowly coming
> back
> and I can actually touch my pinky with my thumb now pretty easily,
> but
> holy crap, no way can I do a pushup on that wrist unless I close
> fist
> it. I still need to get a CT scan done to check progress.
> I'll be happy if I can do standard pushup in the next three months
> or
> so.
> Eric Myers
> Mark Nelson wrote:
> >
> > Pete
> > You are the man! My hat is off to you.
> > My wrist is coming along. I'm going to therapy 3 days a week
> and it's
> > helping. My strength is doing well. Flexability is nearly normal
> too. My
> > problem is weight bearing on the hand. It kills me to try do
> pushups. The combo
> > of flexing and weight bearing don't seen to like each other. I
> can do them if I
> > do finger tip or closed fist pushups, but with the palm down it
> hurts!
> > I'm ready to try riding, but decided that it wouldn't look
> good if I got hurt
> > riding while in therapy. The military frowns on such things. But
> the day my
> > therapy ends I'll be taking the YZ for a spin.
> > Thanks for the tips and helping me persuade the doc into
> giving me a referal
> > to Occupational therapy.
> >
> > >I got back on the bike, 10 weeks to the day after breaking my
> wrist. It has
> > >been three weeks since I got the fixator
> (http://www.verts.com/fixator) off.
> > >It was so cool to shake the cobwebs out. I took it pretty
> easy, as the doc
> > >said I'm not supposed to fall on it for at least 4 more weeks.
> Braking
> > >bumps are still pretty painful to handle. Small, and I mean
> really small
> > >jumps and little whoops were no problem.
> > >
> > >It has been a painful rehab so far. Earlier this week, I could
> finally do
> > >pushups again. I'm back to about 80% mobility and maybe 60%
> strength. I'm
> > >hoping to get back out again before the next snowfall for a
> little more
> > >"rehab".
> > >
> > >SCW and Mark, how are your wrists doing these days?
> > >
> > >Pete Carney
> > >c3ha...@verts.com
> > >
> > Mark
> > '99 YZ BIG
> > '96 yz small
> > #567 OCCRA
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Wesley Grass
|>
|> Lets just say Oct was a bad month for me. I had food poisoning, chicken pox,
|> and surgery!
|>
|>
|>
--
Yeah, yeah, big deal ................ I haven't been laid all year. Or the year
before, or the year before that, or ............... Damn, where's that pistol?
Didn't you crash shortly after COSF on a double or something? Or was that
somebody else?
Wes
Mark Nelson
I forgot to add that I cracked a couple ribs too! On two different occasions.
Damn, now I'm depressed. Can I borrow that pistol? At least I've been able to
stay current in the other department though. <VBG> No, I wasn't be myself! ;0)
Mangled Mark
Jay C
> --
> Yeah, yeah, big deal ................ I haven't been laid all year. Or the
year
> before, or the year before that, or .......
Big deal, me either....of course I'm married, so I have an excuse.
Jay
Wesley Grass
|> Wes
|> I forgot to add that I cracked a couple ribs too! On two different occasions.
Oh, OK, that makes me feel better. I'll gladly trade 6 years of celibacy for
a couple cracked ribs.
|> Damn, now I'm depressed. Can I borrow that pistol?
Sure, no problem. Of course, thanks to the Fed's, I'll have to ship it to
you through a federally licensed dealer, and you'll have to wait 10 days
for a background check, unless your state has an instant check system in place.
|> At least I've been able to
|> stay current in the other department though. <VBG> No, I wasn't be myself! ;0)
|>
|> Mangled Mark
--
It wasn't that cheap slut Freddie I hope.
Wes
Wesley Grass
--
And no desire either, right? So how does that compare to my situation?
Wes
Uwe Hale
> At least I've been able to
> stay current in the other department though. <VBG> No, I wasn't be myself! ;0)
You know they say there are two things that come from Oklahoma...
Which one was it Mark?<VBG>
Eric Myers
hurt as bad now and can ride either bike but not to aggressively. If it
was a bit warmer I might do that more often. Flexibility is about 70%
with regard to bending my wrist fingers down but probably 10% fingers
up. I'm begun working more on getting that corrected these days. The
stretching part doesn't hurt as bad as when I stop stretching it and
have to flex it the opposite direction...tears are welling when that
happens.
Thanks for the tip about the board and screws I can see how that would
help quite abit.
I definatly haven't had the number of breaks you've had though I can say
from past experience that I never want to break a wrist or other
flexible area of my body again.
I'm scheduling a CT after the holidays so I can appease my surgeon and
know for sure that the bone has healed completely.
Eric
Mark Nelson
I'm not sure what they say about Oklahoma. I know what they say about Texas
though:
Steers and @ueers
And from were Wes resides it's:
Fruits and nuts.
Wes, I found you a sulotion to your problem. You can check this site out.
KNow before you go wondering how I know about this place it was on Howard
Stern. What can I say, I think he is funny. He gets people to do the stupidest
things.
Uwe wrote:
Mark wrote:
>> At least I've been able to
>> stay current in the other department though. <VBG> No, I wasn't be myself!
;0)
>
>You know they say there are two things that come from Oklahoma...
>
>Which one was it Mark?<VBG>
>
>Uwe Hale - 99 GasGas EC200, 89 YZ250
Mark
Pekka Hänninen
<19991223095544...@ng-fi1.aol.com>...
>
>Wes, I found you a sulotion to your problem. You can check this site out.
>
>http://www.realdoll.com
Damn, too late. I already sent Santa my list.
--
Pekka Hänninen, OH7XC
97 KTM125EXC, 95 RM125
Wesley Grass
|> Uwe
|> I'm not sure what they say about Oklahoma. I know what they say about Texas
|> though:
|> Steers and @ueers
Primus? Sgt Baker is my name, gonna teach y'all the game, of warfare......
|> And from were Wes resides it's:
|> Fruits and nuts.
We got plenty of flakes too. I'm a "California Raisin" :-(
|> Wes, I found you a sulotion to your problem. You can check this site out.
|>
|> http://www.realdoll.com
I'm partial to the hamster myself.
|> KNow before you go wondering how I know about this place it was on Howard
|> Stern. What can I say, I think he is funny. He gets people to do the stupidest
|> things.
--
Like the women having a farting contest the other day?
Wes
I got horns
Mike Baxter
> In article <19991222163315...@ng-ch1.aol.com>, Mark Nelson wrote:
>
> > At least I've been able to
> > stay current in the other department though. <VBG> No, I wasn't be myself! ;0)
>
> You know they say there are two things that come from Oklahoma...
>
> Which one was it Mark?<VBG>
You know, I had to travel to Oklahoma for one of the jobs I had in Dallas. It's
amazing, but when I crossed over into OK, the IQ in both states went up.
--
Mike Baxter "Don't worry, I saw this done in a cartoon once!"
1997 YZ250 Want crash stories? www.dirtrider.net/motopain
ICQ#26379440 Aftershocks makes my suspension rock!
fas...@my-deja.com
> |> At least I've been able to
> |> stay current in the other department though. <VBG> No, I wasn't be
myself! ;0)
> |>
>
> --
> It wasn't that cheap slut Freddie I hope.
>
> Wes
>
Ok..so I'm a slut.. but I ain't a cheap slut..
I am free...and cheap makes people think there is money
exchanged..and I ain't never taken any money or tradable
goods. At least nothing you couldn't roll and smoke.
But that still doesn't make me a cheap slut. Just a high slut.
Freddie
I am quite certain that butt sweat serves
a purpose, but I don't think I'm interested
in exploring this phenomenon any further.