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After each injury I beat myself up for days/months and dealt with angry grandparents (even the ones who allowed me on MX bikes as a kid). In my case after the first femur break my son was 14 and we had an extensive talk about the risks of the sport and the fact that if that femur break had gone wrong he could have lost his life, he was very clear he understood the risks and wished to continue to race. He's 20 now and making his own choices but I'll be curious to watch his choices if we are blessed with grandchildren.
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Phil Mickelson does alright....
More or less, you are looking at a doc's recommendation of 6 months before he can get back on the bike, some tolerable healing pain, and extensive physical therapy (the muscles in the leg atrophy so ridiculously fast). In my experience it is SUPER important to stick with the the physical therapy regiment religiously.
Good news is, the pain after a full heal is more or less non existent. Every now and then I might get an aching sensation, but nothing that makes me break my stride. They'll have him flying around on crutches in no time.
Best of luck to the kid. Here's to good healin'!
My Boy Langdon got the ok from the doc to get back on the bike June 18th. But the rods will be removed on August 9th. Thanks guys
What's the rush to get back out and race? Fire the trainer, teacher and mechanic and move on.
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My son had 2 titanium rods and screws put in at the time of the accident. He has since had them removed and is back to every sort of normal sports activity.
For the dimwit who suggested motocross is legal child abuse......do yourself a favor and look around at other sports. Maybe we should have our kids live in a bubble and never do anything ?? OH....that isn't living is it....that is existing. I hope my kids continue to choose living. Couch potatoes need not apply.
Sharkey - refer the kids dad over to www.riderdown.org and have him complete an injured rider intake form. You never know, sometimes we actually do something nice for kids!
DanDunes - 7 yr old twin girls? Me too! They've got PW50s and one of them thinks she's Pastrana already. Of course, with my wife being the "First Lady" of RiderDown she's not too keen on them ever racing and I've got to admit it scares the hell out of me. We get injured rider reports here almost daily. I just hope they want to ride with their old man when they get older. My oldest daughter is 19 now and been on her own "rebel without a cause" mission for the last few years (that's another long and sad story), she just told me last week how much she misses riding. Maybe, she will turn out alright after all!
I busted my femur (at the ball) 10 years ago in a whoops section of a hare scramble. Rods, screws, etc.., I was already old at that point but still able to get back on the bike in less than 6 months. Finding the time for elective surgery to get the metal removed later on was hard but probably one of the best medical decisions I could have made.
Life is hard - wear a helmet!
A "dimwit" is the guy who thinks pushing their child to race and get back on the bike quickly after major injuries is not child abuse.
dimwit's also usually get three to four mortgage's on the double wide to finance juniors racing career. 401 kid retirement plan.
doctors told me it was a leg threatening injury
they also told me i was lucky to survive my crash
i was just wondering if anyone knew roughly how long it would be until i could ride again?
because people have said femur breaks take longer to repair in teenage males??
it was a mid-shaft fracture aswell.
thanks
A) Because most teenage Males don't listen to their Doctor and proceed on to be non-compliant patients participating in a bunch of activities they shouldn't be during the healing process.
Moral of the story: Slow down and heal up.
was it a clean break?
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