Ow

MikeM · 2010-10-16T07:10:09+00:00

Hey guys Motorbike accident, broken arm and wrist Be back soon

MikeM

So I'll regain about 80 percent of movement and be fully rehabilitated in 6 months. Could've been worse ?

aja

MikeM wrote So I'll regain about 80 percent of movement and be fully rehabilitated in 6 months. Could've been worse ?

Does the 80% refer to suppleness/flexibility or to accuracy/coordination?

Yeah it could have been. Best of luck to you with the therapy 8)

MikeM

Flexibility and range of motion.

Accuracy and speed will be back with time ? for now I just want the pins to stop burning. Can feel 3 out of the eleven today, even with morphine based schedule 5 painkillers

Reinhard

Trust me on this one, don't skip on the rehab exercises, no matter how boring or mundane they seem. A wrist like that can be one stiff mother after immobilisation. You will likely need some intra-articular manipulation as well to help improve your ROM. Good thing it wasn't your left hand! Hang in there man.

MikeM

Intra articular? Excuse short one handed phone replies

Riaan

Get well soon!

Reinhard

MikeM wrote Intra articular? Excuse short one handed phone replies

Thats where the therapist moves/manipulates the little bones inside the hand and also the joint between the two forearm bones and the bones of the hand. Helps to improve the Rand Of Motion.
Did you break the carpal bones, or the radius and/or ulna? Did they use K-wires and a cast/splint/brace?

MikeM

Dude I don't know. The doc barely had time of day to talk to me. Just remember they said two were shattered in the theatre..

Atm it is pins plates and a splint type thing

Says radius and ulna on my med band

inflames

Mike, what bike did you have?

DaFiz

Ouch Mike. Hoping you're better real soon Man (I hope it's not gonna impair the guitar playing too much ?)

MikeM

And there here's a pic of the scar for those of you that aren't eating or something ?

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1157.snc4/149922_10150120792679968_619149967_7755349_6463400_n.jpg

Thanks again guys ?

Going to start trying to hold a plectrum again next week

Explorerlover

Eina fk!!!!

guidothepimmp

that sucks Mike. Hope it heals well with no complications

all the best man

costafonix

get well soon Mike ☹

Sean

Hi Mike, I've been off the forum for a couple of weeks, busy catching up on much needed guitar forum therapy.

Yikes man, this is horrible. Glad it was not worse though , but still, really sucks. Try to stay away from motorbikes from now on okay? ?

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And there here's a pic of the scar for those of you that aren't eating or something

I was hardcore and looked at it while eating....that's about the limit of my hardcoreness though. Hope you get better soon!

vic

Keep us up to date...and get well soon. Just don't be too impatient to start picking them strings. ?

MikeM

Thanks for the kind words everyone ? Slowly getting better. Still don't have much feeling fingers except thumb and pinkie but yea getting there. Gaining strength ?

Started playing over the weekend. Slowly relearning how to play, thumb and ring finger doing most work or using a pick a little clumsily. Seeing my orthopaedist on Friday to get a stitch out that should've come out last week (dissolving) - it's a real pain, literally ?

@Sean.. Never riding one on the road again.

MikeM

Hey fellars.. So I went to a new specialist today.. Got another surgery set for the 8th of Feb (less than a week away from my birthday, which just happens to be the day varsity starts) for carpal tunnel and to have the screws and plates removed. I am glad I don't need a nueroplasty which is what my orthopedist told me. He also said that the screws and plate can stay in indefinitely. That's not the case. The tendon used mainly for your thumb and when bending your wrist back has almost torn completely against a screw that's protruding out the bone. Similar things are happening in 3 other places. Good news is I might get feeling back and at worst, there will be no further deterioration.

singemonkey

Good luck with that.

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