So 5 years after I snapped my radius and ulna clean in two, after a surgery which involved my bones being plated together with stainless steel and a total of 12 pins on each plate 6 months in a half cast up to my shoulder.
I have somehow managed to regain 100% ROM on my arm.
Don’t ask me how, I don’t really know. Probably due to doing weights for the past 2 years has given me a lot more ROM. That’s what I’m going with.
Basically I can finally do (for the first time in my life) barbell curls.
I’m just glad I never let it become a reason to not do weight lifting like my doctors and so on said I shouldn’t.
Anyway if anyone has had an injury like this or if in the future you do and you remember this thread and you still have the plates in like me , don’t let what other people tell you stop you.
It works out in the end.
Roll on the never ending benefits of weight lifting!
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
I’m happy for you.
Not to be negative but as counterpoint to your post, I did some work with a little girl who broke her humerus falling off a horse. The medics didn’t reset the bone properly and it healed ‘bent’ meaning she can’t straighten her arm.
It’s a marked loss of ROM, with a clearly bony end-feel (meaning that ANY half-competant therapist should knoe instantly that there is a bony/joint issue, and NOT musclular/ligamentous reduction of ROM) yet the clueless NHS physio still went through the motions of trying to ‘stretch’ the tissues to improve ROM.
I told her parents to tell the physio to treat her right, but unless she has it re-broken, she’ll always be limited in ROM and functionality, sadly.
So yes, don’t let anyone tell you what is what, necessarily. Become master of your own recovery!
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I actually stopped going to physio.
Their advice was to constantly do x,y and z stretches as well as massaging the arm daily.
I never did any of those things for more than a few weeks and all it caused was pain.
On the other hand ignoring what they said and doing weight training gave me far better ROM after just a few months and now it’s back to ‘normal’ with no pain unless it’s cold.
The cold snap we’ve had recently hasn’t been great.
I’m in Devon so I guess I’ve got similar weather to you at the moment.