Broken bone recovery time

[FJRider]

... Just ranting really, sorry everyone. Feeling a bit down not being able to ride for such a long time. Anyone pushing , errrr, 40 had a break like this and can give me good news....?

Dont count on a pain free ride anytime soon. If ever.

Ride (and risk more damage) too soon ... and it may never be the same again ... ever ..

Be patient ...

Otherwise ...

[haydes55]

broken bones always feel like they are still broken once out of the cast. after 3 or 4 days usually the pain is gone and it only hurts when stretching the joints (the muscles will shorten and tighten up in a cast) just keep stretching, once you have full movement start on the weights, don't feel too ashamed when you start straining with a 2kg dumbell though

[Subike]

I broke by right arm at the elbow, clean break, in a fall 18mths ago.
6 weeks in a cast, got back on my bike, was ok.
A week later, 16mths ago, I broke my right arm, same bone, at the wrist.
6 weeks in a cast again,
But this time when the cast was removed, I had wrist pain, I did not ride my bike because of it for 6 mths.
It has taken a year for the incident of pain in the joint to stop.
I am an assembler and thus are constantly using hand tools and wrenches, which means working the wrist daily.
But I worked through the discomfort and adapted how I used the tools.
I daily took the pain to the edge of comfort and slowly full movement returned.
Physiotherapy by doing my job.
only in the past 6 weeks have I returned to the flexibility I use to have.
Use it or loose it,
I was able to do a ride of 700+ miles recently, with the mental fear of the pain returning , but had none.
Don't be in a hurry to get results, time and perseverance will be your best friends

[k14]

I broke my wrist 3 years ago and had it in cast for 14 weeks (including surgery to put some wires in there). When they took cast off it was just a skeleton! Two stroke seized while racing at ruapuna and got highsided. With regular physio and doing my exercises regularly I was riding my 125 again 3 weeks later and the dr was ok with that. I didn't have 100% flexibility back but it was quite manageable. Just do what your physio says and try go at least 2 times a week for next few weeks. I'd say you could be back on riding in 4 weeks. Off road is a bit harder on your wrists than road racing but you should be ok.

[mattnzl]

Well my physio is really positive & encouraging so that's made me feel better!
Only thing that made her shake her head was when she asked what I'd like to get better for (setting a goal) and I said to get back to dirt riding

The weather is absolute shit here today, so I may as well get started on my hourly excercises!

Cheers, Matt.

[k14]

Well my physio is really positive & encouraging so that's made me feel better!
Only thing that made her shake her head was when she asked what I'd like to get better for (setting a goal) and I said to get back to dirt riding

The weather is absolute shit here today, so I may as well get started on my hourly excercises!

Cheers, Matt.

Yeah I had a physio that was like that too, I found one that understood about living life. Their job is to support you to get back to where you were before the injury, not look down their nose at you when you say what you want to do when you have full function back!

[Chia]

I broke my wrist in the same place as you, as well as dislocating it (100% displacement) a few years ago.
3 months in cast with K-wires holding the wrist together.
When I got everything taken off my hand/wrist was just a stump that wouldn't move.
3 months of intensive physio helped me to get it to pretty much how it was before.

But make sure you do your exercises - I stopped every hour at work to do them for 15 mins for 3 months...

When I started riding again it used to swell up and hurt like hell by the end of the day but that goes away with time.

It won't ever be the same again but it'll be sweet ...positive thinking

[tri boy]

I'm on my 10th week off work for a broken finger

Must of been one hell of a booga.

[Jay GTI]

Glad the physio is helping you feel a bit more positive. Different parts of the body take different lengths of time to heal, but with luck you'll have 90% of your movement back within a couple of weeks. I snapped a finger (clean break) which got all sorts of complicated, had me scared for a while as I'm a guitarist and it was on my fretting hand, but the physio had me back shredding away in no time. Just keep up with the stretches and strengthening exercises and you should be all good!

[haydes55]

I was riding my 125 again 3 weeks later and the dr was ok with that.

BS! who is your doctor? my brother got knocked out at speedway after a few weeks of travelling around NZ racing and a month later he went to our doctor to get clearance and he refused to give him clearance saying he still wasn't healed from being knocked out because he couldn't remember the date (none of us even knew what day of the week we were racing we were in invercargill at our 3rd meeting that week starting at auckland). after I broke my arm the doctor wanted to check up on my arm after a few weeks out of the cast and told me I shouldn't ever race again (he forgot about that when I turned up a year later with my leg in a cast and same story he didn't want me to race ever again obviously I have an idiot for a doctor.

[Kickaha]

BS! who is your doctor? my brother got knocked out at speedway after a few weeks of travelling around NZ racing and a month later he went to our doctor to get clearance and he refused to give him clearance saying he still wasn't healed from being knocked out because he couldn't remember the date (none of us even knew what day of the week we were racing we were in invercargill at our 3rd meeting that week starting at auckland). after I broke my arm the doctor wanted to check up on my arm after a few weeks out of the cast and told me I shouldn't ever race again (he forgot about that when I turned up a year later with my leg in a cast and same story he didn't want me to race ever again obviously I have an idiot for a doctor.

I got clearance to race 3 weeks after coming out of a cast after breaking an ankle, concussion I think is minimum 28 days stand down

[rachprice]

An ulna styloid avulsion fracture is a fracture of the knobby bit on the outside of your wrist if palm is down

Avulsion is when the bone fractures at the site of insertion of ligaments/tendons

It's commonly associated with distal radial fracture too

It is also associated with damage to the cartilage in between the 2 forearm bone at the wrist. Without knowing the details of your injury the pain maybe due to cartilage damage, unfortunately cartilage is a bitch when it comes the healing so will take a lot longer

Like everyone said - do your physio and don't push it if you don't feel you can. Do things when you think you are ready

[CRF119]

Partner broke her wrist 8 months ago still having trouble now. Be nice to it maybe where a splint/wrist brace during sleep or any other time may damage it.

Find any thimg that will help with bone recovery

Your doing better then me. I just got out of hospital for burns to face and arm. No sun for the whole summer! Only MX ill get in will be on PS3.

[k14]

I broke my wrist in the same place as you, as well as dislocating it (100% displacement) a few years ago.
3 months in cast with K-wires holding the wrist together.
When I got everything taken off my hand/wrist was just a stump that wouldn't move.
3 months of intensive physio helped me to get it to pretty much how it was before.

But make sure you do your exercises - I stopped every hour at work to do them for 15 mins for 3 months...

When I started riding again it used to swell up and hurt like hell by the end of the day but that goes away with time.

It won't ever be the same again but it'll be sweet ...positive thinking

Sounds like you were the same as me! Radius 7 breaks, ulna 1 and scaphoid 1. 3 k wires. I've got a video of the dr taking one of the k wires out too

It is 99% back to how it was before injury now. It sometimes gets a little stiff on cold days but apart from that it is fine.

[cheese]

I sprained my wrist badly when I fell off my bike and it took around a year for it to be 100% again.