Busted navicular (scaphoid) 3 months no riding!!!

[limey]

Some people are just more flexible. No way my thumbs are touching my forearms but I know a few folks that can.

 

[Hooli]

Fractured the one in my left wrist when I highsided at Thunderhill back in 2003. Took 4 months in a cast to heal properly.

 

[scottiedawg66]

no surgery! casted for 6 weeks then another CT scan. thanks for all the reality guys. ride smart

 

[limey]

Good news! Look after it dude - no heavy lifting etc, keep off the cigs if you can, and eat healthy.

I was cast 11 weeks, then soft brace as a precaution for another 8. Your hand will get seriously stiff and a bit nasty looking from being in the cast, but the movement (especially to the thumb) will come back quick, and the wrist shortly after.

You are never too old for cast art .

 

[scottiedawg66]

i can feel it healing! and smell the dead skin in the cast any advice on that?

i now realize that i will be riding until i am physically unable to do so. i have never wanted to get on a bike as much as i do now.

 

[limey]

Hang in there dude! I know that feeling too well!

I used a cast cooler for the stinky/itchy skin issue. You can have mine if you like? PM me. Might be a bit late - been on vacation and off the BARFs for a while.

Hopefully you are about done by now... Your skin is going to look bad when you get the second cast off, but it will be easy to scrub it off.

 

[scottiedawg66]

thanks for the offer. itching has not been bad, and the 1st cast comes off on the 24th. hoping for a soft cast but I could need surgery...my right hand is still pretty much useless.

 

[scottiedawg66]

cast is off. bone is healing, but not 100% healed yet. atrafy (sp) is getting better. any advice on PT that I can do at home?

 

[1footdown]

try a dynabee for strength and range of motion.

oh, and it's spelled atrophy :nerd

 

[scottiedawg66]

thanks!!

 

[Seph]

+1 on the Dynabee. Did wonders for my PT. Just be careful at first - I ended up with blisters all over my hand.

No squeezing tennis balls, etc until the doc tells you the bone is healed.

Here are some of the other exercises I still work on:

http://www.toc.md/exercises_wristhand.htm

 

[scottiedawg66]

Well after months and months of no riding I finally returned. My wrist did not bother me at all on the bike. I still don't have great strength and my range of motion is pretty poor. But I can race! wahoo!!

 

[LongGoneJohn]

Congrats man! I bet the wait was as painful as the injury!

 

[2nsane]

Good to hear about the fast recovery:thumbup

:thumbup:thumbup

 

[scottiedawg66]

thanks fellas. I didn't even feel it when I broke it so with no doubt the wait was the worst part.

as for being in the worst shape of my life...

 

[2nsane]

thanks fellas. I didn't even feel it when I broke it so with no doubt the wait was the worst part.

as for being in the worst shape of my life...

You able to close your thumb under your fingers yet?

 

[scottiedawg66]

yup! did a big bike track day on the GSXR 750 and the wrist felt great. I could feel it after coming off the track towards the end of the day, but it did not slow me down.