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I'm going in for surgery on my scaphoid for the third time. Throttle side.
Dr says there's s possibility they may need to do a partial fusion. Won't know for sure until he opens it up.
I was just wondering if anyone it there has had this done and how badly it affects them.
Dr says there's s possibility they may need to do a partial fusion. Won't know for sure until he opens it up.
I was just wondering if anyone it there has had this done and how badly it affects them.
The Shop
Luckily for me, it's my left wrist so the only disadvantage (other than the constant pain) is a slight loss of strength and it's tough to have proper form on the bike without much range of motion in that wrist.
Definitely getting a full fusion (to help reduce the pain) once my moto days are done......so when I'm about 80 haha
None of it sounds to promising.
Doc sez fusion is the worst case scenario,
Pray to god it doesn't go that way.
Thanks everyone.
Furthermore, if you are older than say 20, your chances of healing is reduced.
Fusion usually involves removing the scaph bone and fusing nearby bones to promote stability, hopefully. Each case can be different but suffice it to say, that the mention of fusion usually means that you are currently out of options or very close. Another thing to look foward to, is scaphoid injuries accelerates arthritis.
More often than not, scaph fracture is hard to be verified on x-ray. So if the x-ray is negative, protocol says to get an MRI. Positive "snuff box" pain assumes fracture right off the bat until proven otherwise. With an initial negative x-ray, it is still considered a fracture. May point is, when you are released, a follow up x-ray/MRI should be done to verify proper healing.
Finally, Jimmy Alberston had one removed. Perhaps, if one could find an article where he talks about it, it could possibly shed some light on how it feels in an MX setting. I have no idea how one could find an article (if one even exists) but it doesnt hurt to try because it would give insight to how it pertains to motocross.
Finally, Barcia has had a scaphoid fracture. So, it could be bothering him as they can cause problems forever ( its the gift that keeps on giving). Also, Cooper riding at the level he is with the recent scaphoid fracture says a lot about his toughness.
Hope I helped some. Forgive my iPhone grammar and spelling.
I'm interested to hear your experience.
Can you give me your tail of 3 scaiphod surgeries? Any miraculous recovery tips?
Cheers Paul
Used to run against a guy that did the thumb throttle thing on a cr250.
Told me he rigged one up off a quad, apparently that's what quads use, thumb throttles.
In January of this year, I went in for the fourth surgery supposedly to cut down the scaphoid wich was screwed together in the 3rd surgery, I was still
Having a lot of pain and the doc thought the bone was rubbing on the ulna? Or some other bone, I’m not sure. anyways, once he opened me up he discovered the scaphoid was basically dying and coming apart so he decided to excise it and do what is called a four corner fusion. Before the surgery he said there is a slight chance of this happening but not to worry so needless to say I was pretty bummed when I woke up. But I trust the guy, he has a stellar reputation in the area. I feel it was the best decision. After a short rehab and some physical therapy I was cleared to go back to work and basically do whatever my pain level let’s me do. Doc says it’s as strong as ever after 6-8 weeks, probably stronger than before. It hurt pretty good throughout the summer but I stretched and exercised it regularly and by July started to ride again, with the help of the new Mobius wrist brace.(highly recommend it by the way). By October I was racing again, some Moto, mostly hare scrambles. To be honest the last time I rode my wrist never crossed my mind, all the other old motocross aches and pains seemed to have come back ten fold but I’ll cross that bridge later. They say by 12-18 months I’ll have 40% ROM back and 90% strength back with little or no pain and a very small chance of developing arthritis later and I believe it. The biggest issue I have is applying throttle while standing up. I installed a quick turn throttle and it helped some. So, all in all the whole deal sucked but I think the partial
Fusion was the right thing to do and by 2018 I’ll be back to where I was.
Hope this helps.
Pit Row
Oh and it also taught me to BUY SOME DAMN WRIST BRACES
I'm at the beginning of my scaphoid story. Went over the bars 3 months ago. I dislocated the wrist broke and the scaphoid and a few other bones, tore two ligaments, that were surgically repaired. Just had another x-ray and only one side of the screw is healing with the scaphoid, and one part of the bone looks to possibly be dieing.
The scar tissue is giving me problems also, I have a good scar on my palm and back of my hand.
I was hoping to be able to ride buy January, as I'm all paid up for on a MX holiday in califonia, for A1.
But after reading all the scaphoid horror stories I think I will just leave my gear at home.
I also wanted to know if anyone has had any luck with any sort of supplements, like silica, vitamin D, calcium. Or any sort of electronic stimulation devices/ultrasound? To help recovery.
I will definitely be getting a mobius brace when I'm in the US.
Good, I feel for you, good luck wit recovery.
As far as supplements/stim I don’t think the y do much, if anything at all. During recovery of my surgery in wich they screwed the scaphoid together I had the latest and greatest stim machine and the bone didn’t heal at all. I tried all tried all sorts of supplements also during that time wich I don’t think did anything.
I was lucky that I live in Stockholm Sweden, and we have the countries main hand injury surgery/hospital here.
I went in for surgery the morning after the injury, when I woke up and asked the surgeon how was it? He just said "bad". He keeps telling me how bad it was, but only after reading all the scaphoid threads on here has it really started to sink in, that it could be a long road.
The scaphoid was shattered and out of its socket.
Huge respect for roczen to be back on the bike after only 7 months, as from what I've read he did similar to his wrist, plus he shattered his arm and elbow, the fact that my two small scars are giving me problems, and they are nothing compared to his crazy scars.
This is what my wrist looks like now, so a lot better but still a bit painful and stiff. It's been just over 4 months since crash.
Probably one of the worst wrist injuries ive seen. Best of luck to you man. Just bought myself a Mobius brace, if theres a dealership near you that has them in stock, go try one on. Theyre actually pretty comfortable. Have yet to ride with it yet, just tried it on when I bought it.
happened to me way more times than I deserve. Ive also rebroken it after many times. its a complete mess. I have very limited range of motion so I run a modified quick turn throttle to be even quicker. going to be interesting what I have to do to my new mv agusta f3 race bike.
best wishes.
I now ride with a left handed throttle and a recluse. Looking forward to one day getting an Alta switching it to left throttle and forgetting about it.
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