Thanks Bob. I will certainly encourage him. Interesting about the different approaches. His wrist and lower arm have never been in a cast. Just a stiffener and a gauze wrapping, then surrounded by a protective foam support for the first week. Now it is just the two main pins and locator rod and the two other smaller pins sticking out. The scars ( 4 cut slices ) are healed nicely but he still has to keep it clean and use the Peroxide regularly!
Walt On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's normal to keep the plate in unless it causes problems afterwards. > They told me mine would have to remain in, but in the event it gave > quite a lot of trouble because one of the screws worked itself halfway > out and was bulging into my flesh. > > Incidentally, they also told me mine was the worst break they'd seen. > I suspect it's standard operating procedure to say that to men - it > makes us feel hard. They also told me I wouldn't be able to cycle > again, and wouldn't regain full movement. I think that's to give us a > challenge. > > I was back on the bike within a few weeks, and I was determined to > make sure I kept well on top of the physiotherapy so I could retain as > much movement as possible. Once the cast was off I also went into the > gym to do additional wrist strengthening exercises. > > Now that the plate is out I have more than 95% of full movement. The > only restriction is that I can't bend it forward to quite the extent I > can the other one, so I still regularly do the 'reverse prayer' > exercise to keep stretching it. > > I would strongly recommend to your son that he keeps well on top of > the physiotherapy. > > Bob > > >> >> The surgeon told us that the plate would have to stay. He said it > was >> the worst break in that area of the wrist that he had ever seen and > he >> is not a young man. BTW, it was on a mountain bike at a course that > is >> "technical" in their vernacular! >> >> Walt >> >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > That's the operation I had last year. Had another operation in May >> > this year to remove the plate. Grizzly stuff, isn't it? >> > >> > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
