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2/6/2020 6:00pm
2/6/2020 6:00pm
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So hopefully I can get an answer here. I ended up breaking my scaphoid the other day and I’m getting surgery. They’re putting a screw through the bone to get it back together. But I’m getting some conflicting answers on recovery and all that. Has anyone here had this surgery? What was you’re recovery time? How quickly were you back on the bike? I know everyone is different but just trying to get a baseline.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
How old are you? I broke mine when I was about 40. I didn't do much of anything for 12 weeks. I had a cast after the screw. I didn't try riding again for a while. It was not a dirt bike wreck that caused it.
The Shop
About 6 weeks later I was riding, crashed, and broke my other wrist (radius and ulna) while still in the cast for the scaphoid. The docs cut off the scaphoid cast so I could function and casted up the other arm.
8 weeks later I was all healed up and started riding again, but the scalfoid wasn't fully healed and I eventually broke it again. They did surgery that time and put a screw through it. It eventually healed in a few months and all has been OK since.
Good luck, it's a crappy bone to break with the slow recovery time!
I have a little bit less range of motion now and it still hurts from time to time.
This will most assuredly happen to you if you do not follow the doctors orders and let that bone heal properly. It takes a long time. Do not rush it.
You should not be receiving conflicting information. If you broke it and it requires screws you need to probably wait 6-8 weeks, if not longer, before it's even out of a cast/splint. 3 months before you're riding again.
Don't rush it. Do exactly as your orthopedic surgeon instructs.
Don’t push the recovery. Will be back riding.
It's the injury that ended me chasing the dream.
No pin, 16 weeks in a cast with the right hand in the wide open position,
Then about a year getting maybe 80% rom back.
Which came from hurting it like heck playing tennis.
It's gonna take time.
Pasadena eh? The land of pleasant living.
Gibson Island to Richie Highway, Stony Creek to Severna Park.
Where do u guys ride there nowadays?
Pit Row
My advise, get a boat, explore the bay, take a year off and let that thing really heal up.
Long term, mine was never the same really. Never got full rom back,
But I still kick it as far as work goes. The more u use it the more it will come back.
Squeaked top 10 dist 7 Senior class 25 years after I did mine.
It's not the end of the world.
Take your time. You may live a long time. You will always be as good as you can recover.
Compound, 6 months off
What little riding I've done this year, my wrist feels normal prior to breaking it. I stopped wearing the brace altogether as well. Just take the time to condition it back to shape before hurting it again.
Just like STP said..."take time with a wounded hand, because it likes to heal."
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