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Do your physical therapy. I did at home stuff but I know I would have saved a bunch of recovery time by doing PT.
Anyway, I suggest not drinking pop. My surgeon said it impairs bone healing. He said some other things, but I forget what they were. Prolly cigs, but I don't smoke. Be as healthy as ya can and drink your milk!
They make bone stimulators....but your doc would hafta prescribe and insurance pay for it. I believe that most if not all top athletes get the stimulators to speed up their recovery. Us mere mortals usually don't, but I did after the scaphoid excision to assure healing of the fusion thats then necessary.
I have less motion than before the injury, but its centered and I can deal with it. Its my clutch hand...which is why I could ignore the damn thing in the first place (I'm right handed).
Broke my right, hit a pile of downed riders in the dust, 4th gear tapped out.
Lucked out, doc was the guy for the then Baltimore Colts,
Put me in a cast, positioned the hand like it was wide open on the gas.
18 weeks. A whole summer in that thing.
Was like the hand just flapped around at first.
Swimming freaked me out. It was like a wet rag on the end of my arm.
Tennis was kind of my second thing, even before the injury.
Right handed, two hand backhand, I could drill it.
That summer, I became a left handed tennis player.
I think it kinda helped.
To compensate, until I got the left down, I worked on foot and position placement.
In other words, I ran my ass off, every day.
Don't know how many sets of shoes I wrecked, but by the time the cast came off, I was an okay lefty.
And I was in great cardio shape.
Still believe, it was the hard and high blood volume that came with the sprinting that helped the bone to heal
Even the doc was surprised, said it was the best recoveries without a pin he'd ever seen.
Today, maybe 90% rom compared to the other one.
One good thing that came out of it, the look on the guy on the other side of the net when I first play a stranger,
They can't believe it when I switch the racket from right to left.
Can go a whole match, hitting just forehands, or backhands, if I feel like it.
On another note, a little weird when I realize I made almost the exact same post this morning as I did 4 yrs ago on page 1 of this thread.
I've had a couple ortho surgeons tell me the scaphoid is essentially a useless bone - an artifact of some strange evolutionary path that left us with this useless, yet highly vulnerable bone in our hands. In it's worst form, a broken scaphoid can be a career ender for a motocrosser, much like the shoulder labrum tear is to a baseball pitcher.
Exercising patience long enough to let it heal properly is probably the hardest part. There's about a 2-3 month period where you feel like your wrist is good but it's really an additional 2-3 months you shouldn't be doing anything with your wrist.
Pit Row
Riding a 250twoey probably doesn't help the cause either
He was pretty good aswel, done operations on Some top wsbk riders.
All I can say is use comfrey oil to heal the bone. It’s a herbal remedy, my bone was dieing but a month of using comfrey it was healed.
I don’t suffer from arm pump and it doesn’t get particularly sore from riding. Good luck!
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