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Riding After Broken Wrist
"Bob C" patnbob@unwired wrote in message .. . | Comments on Riding after broken wrist. Got tipped off on a pothole | yesterday, and face 6 weeks in plaster. Didn't take the advice about | not stopping the fall with hands - it all happened too quickly! How | soon did others get back on the bike? I had a few problems following my scaphoid fracture - it was initially misdiagnosed, and I spent 3 months (May-August) thinking it was a bruise/sprain, and I continued cycling, but it was increasingly painful. Eventually when my wrist started swelling, I saw my GP who organised an X-ray, the fracture was found, and there was a rushed series of consultations and I had a bolt fitted to the bone. This was done in day surgery - into hospital at 6am, out at 2pm. It's usable, but I can't open jars, and cycling on flat bars with thumb round the bar is a bit uncomfortable - I tend "grip" the bar with base of my hand - but this is because of the delay in treatment - apparently it's not uncommon for scaphoid fractures to be undiagnosed, since you've had rapid treatment, you should be tickety-boo. Drop bars, USS 'bent bars, and Dutch style bars (flat but curved backwards - I don't know the correct name) dont give me a problem, so I'm okay with 2/3 of my bikes, [soon to be 3/4] pOB |
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On Feb 20, 6:25 pm, "Gags" wrote:
About 6 years ago I also rode for 6 weeks in Canberra with a cast on my lower leg. This was actually a bit easier as all I did was replace the SPD pedal on the LHS with a flat pedal and then I strapped an old reef sandle over my cast. Shame, I thought you were about to say you screwed a cleat in to the bottom of your cast Graeme |
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patnbob@unwired says... Comments on Riding after broken wrist. Got tipped off on a pothole yesterday, and face 6 weeks in plaster. Didn't take the advice about not stopping the fall with hands - it all happened too quickly! How soon did others get back on the bike? Broke wrist (off roading), cycled to hospital, wrist plastered, cycled home (which probably didn't do the plaster back slab much good). Went back a couple of days later for a resin plaster, which survived OK apart from the bit looped around the thumb which soon crumbled - I cut that bit off because it wasn't doing anything apart from getting in the way and the plaster was staying in place pretty well anyway. Of course I was sternly reprimanded by the people at the fracture clinic, they also told me that I shouldn't be using that hand but there was no way I could take time off work just before Christmas with hundreds of bikes to be prepared. I don't think it causes me any particular problems now, but it's hard to tell because I've broken both wrists and carried on working, so I don't know if the aches are caused by the initial trauma, failure to rest and heal, or age. :-) |
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On Feb 20, 1:03 am, Bob C patnbob@unwired wrote:
Comments on Riding after broken wrist. Got tipped off on a pothole yesterday, and face 6 weeks in plaster. Didn't take the advice about not stopping the fall with hands - it all happened too quickly! How soon did others get back on the bike? Scaphoid fracture? I'm in plaster with one of those at the moment. Was tentatively back on bike after a week but I had the easy cast without my thumb in it. Went for a check up after 2 weeks and had a new cast with my thumb in it which makes rapid fire gear changing virtually impossible and riding isn't as much fun. Doctor said it was ok to ride though as long as I was sensible but I'm spending more time in the gym because I don't want to get knocked off again so soon and because it's been cold and icy in the evenings! I've found that writing causes much more pain than riding does. Get well soon - I assume you've reported the pothole to the appropriate authority? peter |
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Bob C wrote:
Comments on Riding after broken wrist. Got tipped off on a pothole yesterday, and face 6 weeks in plaster. Didn't take the advice about not stopping the fall with hands - it all happened too quickly! How soon did others get back on the bike? Recumbent trike - (I use a Trice) |
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Riding After Broken Knee
On Feb 19, 10:21*pm, Mike Rocket J Squirrel
wrote: On 2/19/2008 9:34 PM Jay Beattie wrote: Oh man, I wish I had an X-ray of my left knee! Titanium from the mid-femur to the upper tibia. Hurts to walk sometimes, limited range of motion, but never troubles me riding. I lucked out. Did you have a break just above the femoral head? Hi Jay, my Lt knee, distal Lt femur, and proximal Lt tibia and Lt fibula had multiple fractures. The original fix was to paste things together as well as possible and tack the femoral head to the femur with a couple plates and what appeared to be a random collection of lag bolts and wood screws. When the meniscus in the knee finally wore out (messed up bearing surfaces) resulting in bone-on-bone grind-o-fun, they sawed off the femoral head, shaped a nice keyed surface atop the tibia, and mounted the prosthetic with a long hex cross-sectioned titanium rod up the inside of my femur. Looking at how the femur could shatter with too much torsion from the lower leg, my surgeon said "no skiing." That was about 10 years ago. I limp (also multiple fractures in Rt ankle and broken proximal Rt femur), but compared with the pain of walking on a trashed knee, it's a serious improvement. Man, what happened? Were you hit by a train? Please tell me this was not a skiing injury. -- Jay Beattie. |
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Andrew Muzi wrote:
Bob C wrote: Comments on Riding after broken wrist. Got tipped off on a pothole yesterday, and face 6 weeks in plaster. Didn't take the advice about not stopping the fall with hands - it all happened too quickly! How soon did others get back on the bike? I could not manage to push a file or put weight on the handlebar with mine for 4~5 weeks after I got my new bionic metal wrist. http://www.yellowjersey.org/xray.html I did ride one-handed though! Titanium or stainless steel? Too bad there was not a version with a Campagnolo logo on it! That intersection [1] is actually good looking compared to what most of the streets will look like a month from now. [1] http://www.yellowjersey.org/wrist.html -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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PoB aka Person on Bicycle? wrote:
[...] Drop bars, USS 'bent bars, and Dutch style bars (flat but curved backwards - I don't know the correct name)[...] North Road bars? http://www.bikemannetwork.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/product_images/HB/HB1008.jpg -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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Pete Whelan wrote:
Bob C wrote: Comments on Riding after broken wrist. Got tipped off on a pothole yesterday, and face 6 weeks in plaster. Didn't take the advice about not stopping the fall with hands - it all happened too quickly! How soon did others get back on the bike? Recumbent trike - (I use a Trice) A Trice would be nice, but oh what a price! I want a Trice Micro to keep my Dragonflyer company. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia The weather is here, wish you were beautiful |
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