Message from discussion Ride report - Finally back on the bike!

From: "C3hammer" <c...@nospam.aros.net>
Subject: Re: Ride report - Finally back on the bike!
Date: 1999/12/22
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Hey Eric:

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
c3ham...@verts.com

Eric Myers <emy...@nojunkmail.mc.net> wrote in message
news:38606AD2.78B2ACBE@nojunkmail.mc.net...
> 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