That depends on the extent of your injuries and your comfort level training with a cast on. I trained with a broken wrist once many years ago. I set up a fixed gear bike with a front brake that I could operate with my good hand I only rode on lightly travelled and fairly flat farm roads and put in a lot of miles with my cast resting on the bars set fairly high. By the time I got the cast off I was smoking fit with all the solid training miles and breaking the race - recovery cycle, 'course the season was about over as well.....rymoto said:I broke my wrist at the UVM collegiate race two weeks ago. I want to continue to some kind of training while I have this cast for 4 weeks. Is there anything besides the extremely boring stationary bike I could be doing?
rymoto said:I broke my wrist at the UVM collegiate race two weeks ago. I want to continue to some kind of training while I have this cast for 4 weeks. Is there anything besides the extremely boring stationary bike I could be doing?
Thanks for that. I fractured my scaphoid in a crash over 2 weeks ago and I'm currently wearing the removable cast until the swelling is completely gone . Luckily my teammate is a sports MD so he recommended a cast despite the fact that it didn't feel too bad. I'd be happy to train indoors through the summer, but alas my knee is also jacked up so no riding for a few weeks minimum.skammer said:what bone did you break? Speaking from experience, you may jsut want to chill for a while.
I broke my scaphoic (nevicular) bone as a result of a botched takeoff on a jump that launched me about 15 feet in the air from the ground (about 6-8 from the topside of the jump), i left the jump a little sideways and wayy too fast, overshot and missed the backside and came down flat. My DH bike ate most of the impact, but my wrist was a casualty. I was unable to race the next day, and went to the urgent care facility local to my home thinking that this was just a bad sprain.
HA...urgent care docs aren't trained to recognize probable scaphoid breaks because of the way they present on xrays. 4 weeks later my wrist was still jacked beyond belief and I went to the ortho who did the classic snuff box test and said I know what you did. The Dr. (Dr. William Hugh Baugher) who is a reasonably well known hand doctor in the state of MD did what is called a Matti-Russe bone graft with temporary pins. 12 weeks later I was able to ride again. Two years later the bone graft failed and he then did a "bleeding bone" Matti-Russe with permanent Pins. I have progressed from using a removable (clamshell) style wrist splint/cast (a form of Thumb Spica) to race downhill and riding cross country to not wearing anything at all any more.
The reason for posting this recount is to advise you to take care of it and NOT push it. Take some time off, and give it time to heal. If you are any age beyond 18 wrist injuries tend to not recover well without ideal circumstances. I am not a medical doctor or anythign of the sort, but spent countless hours surfing and reading arriving at the conclusion that my recovery is about the best outcome I could have hoped for the second go-round. I have about 85% strength and movement versus my left hand (which is also my dominant hand) If your injury was more traumatic than my scaphoid I would definitely recommend you not stress the joint. I would care not to repeat that episode again...Even being left handed you learn quickly how much you rely on your other side for gross motor skills and such.
What is a "bleeding bone" Matti-Russe? I broke my scaphoin right down the middle almost 2 years ago. The emergency room doc spotted it correctly and I had surgery the following week. He screwed the bone together and that was that. It didn't heal. About a year and 3 months later (April) he went in again, this time carving a bone chip out of my hip, putting it in the middle, and screwing it all together. Didn't heal again (well, one joint healed, the downstream blood flow joint didn't heal).skammer said:what bone did you break? Speaking from experience, you may jsut want to chill for a while.
I broke my scaphoic (nevicular) bone as a result of a botched takeoff on a jump that launched me about 15 feet in the air from the ground (about 6-8 from the topside of the jump), i left the jump a little sideways and wayy too fast, overshot and missed the backside and came down flat. My DH bike ate most of the impact, but my wrist was a casualty. I was unable to race the next day, and went to the urgent care facility local to my home thinking that this was just a bad sprain.
HA...urgent care docs aren't trained to recognize probable scaphoid breaks because of the way they present on xrays. 4 weeks later my wrist was still jacked beyond belief and I went to the ortho who did the classic snuff box test and said I know what you did. The Dr. (Dr. William Hugh Baugher) who is a reasonably well known hand doctor in the state of MD did what is called a Matti-Russe bone graft with temporary pins. 12 weeks later I was able to ride again. Two years later the bone graft failed and he then did a "bleeding bone" Matti-Russe with permanent Pins. I have progressed from using a removable (clamshell) style wrist splint/cast (a form of Thumb Spica) to race downhill and riding cross country to not wearing anything at all any more.
The reason for posting this recount is to advise you to take care of it and NOT push it. Take some time off, and give it time to heal. If you are any age beyond 18 wrist injuries tend to not recover well without ideal circumstances. I am not a medical doctor or anythign of the sort, but spent countless hours surfing and reading arriving at the conclusion that my recovery is about the best outcome I could have hoped for the second go-round. I have about 85% strength and movement versus my left hand (which is also my dominant hand) If your injury was more traumatic than my scaphoid I would definitely recommend you not stress the joint. I would care not to repeat that episode again...Even being left handed you learn quickly how much you rely on your other side for gross motor skills and such.
As a follow up to my previous post from April, I ended up being in a cast and later a removable splint for a total of 12 weeks. Yes, that meant training indoors during summer. It sucked and I missed the best races of the season, but my scaphoid healed properly, I regained my CTL only recently, and now I'm setting PB's on the bike. I'm glad I listened to the doctor and didn't try to rush things.Bikeridindude said:What is a "bleeding bone" Matti-Russe? I broke my scaphoin right down the middle almost 2 years ago. The emergency room doc spotted it correctly and I had surgery the following week. He screwed the bone together and that was that. It didn't heal. About a year and 3 months later (April) he went in again, this time carving a bone chip out of my hip, putting it in the middle, and screwing it all together. Didn't heal again (well, one joint healed, the downstream blood flow joint didn't heal).
Is the "bleeding bone" Matti-Russe surgery #2 that I already had? I'm not sure what all the technical/slang terms are for this ****.
wrist fusion or proximal row carpectomy. Neither option was worth not taking a break for me, so I opted to go as easy as my crazy ass could bear to do.
What are these? Is that option #3 is? My doctor was talking about cutting a row of 3 bones out as the next step (I'm not sure what the operation is called). I ain't all that fond of that idea. By now my scaphoid is so damn carved up and full of holes, I doubt it's salvagable for any other purpose anyway. If anybody has any insight to any of this, I would appreciate it. I'm wondering if my doc is a quack and I need to look elsewhere. Thanks.
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