You’re gonna have your own personal rainbow in a few days…Yellow, green, orange.
I hope it doesn’t hurt too badly.
Hey Kevin - if your surgery is today - here’s wishing for the best of all possible outcomes!
[quote]soldog wrote:
Hey Kevin - if your surgery is today - here’s wishing for the best of all possible outcomes![/quote]
x2 Hope everything goes well.
virtual meet results are in, and my first lift was judged successful placing me 9 out of 10. Not “dead” last, pun intended. Not sure it was worth it, as it will be months before I’ll be seriously lifting again, but at least it’s something.
Here is a pic of the arm today. Cast came off yesterday. Now I’m in a splint. Can’t do much with it for two more weeks. Then will be able to start doing basic stuff like brushing my teeth, etc.
I have started some very light lifting with the left arm, and some walking on the treadmill.
Race to Salina: 109.5 miles to go as of now. May do a bit more this evening.
Ooooww, that looks icky!
Good luck with the rehab. I hope its speedy and not too painful.
See, already on the road to full recovery. Beware the physical theropists. They’re all sadist. Not to sound all kumbaya but it’s all about attitude. Know you’ll get better and hold that thought in mind.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
See, already on the road to full recovery. Beware the physical theropists. They’re all sadist. Not to sound all kumbaya but it’s all about attitude. Know you’ll get better and hold that thought in mind.[/quote]
I know of at least 3 guys who have had tendon avulsions that were re-injured by over zealous PTs. I may skip the whole PT thing, and just do the work myself.
Sorry about the injury. Best wishes for a full recovery.
Here’s some inspiration for you: great great-grandfather and powerlifter - YouTube
3/6/2010
Race to Salina: 92.5 miles to go. I’ve been walking on the TM. Today was so nice, I did 2.5 mile outside. Saw flowers coming up.
New goal: complete a half-marathon this year. It’ll be slow, as I’ll walk a lot of it.
I’ve done a lot or reading on rehab from the tendon reattachment. Gonna be a while until I can lift much. I’m thinking of getting a temporary gym membership so I can use the machines. That would let me lift more weight for lower body exercises. Gotta wait until I can drive again first!
[quote]mathineer wrote:
3/6/2010
Race to Salina: 92.5 miles to go. I’ve been walking on the TM. Today was so nice, I did 2.5 mile outside. Saw flowers coming up.
New goal: complete a half-marathon this year. It’ll be slow, as I’ll walk a lot of it.
I’ve done a lot or reading on rehab from the tendon reattachment. Gonna be a while until I can lift much. I’m thinking of getting a temporary gym membership so I can use the machines. That would let me lift more weight for lower body exercises. Gotta wait until I can drive again first![/quote]
So how long are you out of even ordinary activities like driving? I assume they kept you off work as well?
[quote]soldog wrote:
So how long are you out of even ordinary activities like driving? I assume they kept you off work as well?
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I see the doc again on Wed. I took a short drive around the block today to see if I could manage it one-handed. Pissed my wife off big time! I hope to start driving to work soon.
I’ll probaly be going in and leaving an hour early to miss traffic until I can use both hands. I’ve only missed a couple of days of work. I’ve managed to figure out how to do most of the stuff I need to do one-handed. I can type and write fairly well now.
I tried the stationary bike, but can’t really manage that, so I’ll be walking the rest of the way to Salina.
Math - glad to hear that it went okay and that you are on the road to recovery. Train/rehab smart and keep after it.
The running sounds like a good goal. We all need them or we become stagnant. Stagnation is a slow death.
3/10/2010
Race to Salina: 77.5 as of today. I’m up to 4+ miles per day. Weather has been beautiful, and I’ve been walking outside a lot.
Saw the doc today. I’m out of the splint, but still in a sling for the next week. I start PT on Monday. No strengthening for the next 4 weeks.
Here’s a pic of the arm.
Looking good. We missed all the pretty colors. They gonna have you regain extension mobility first before strengthening?
3/12/2010
Race to Salina: 71 miles to go.
Charming - the Pretty color pic is on the previous page near the top.
The tendon was pulled completely from the bone. The bone at radial tuberosity was ground off enough to make it bleed, and the tendon stump was similarly cut off. The stump was re-attached to the tuberosity using the suture anchor method. A sort of scab forms at the interface, and the tendon and bone begin to grow back into each other. This process is pretty slow, on the order of the speed of bone “knitting”. Today was 3 weeks post surgery. It will take another 3-4 weeks for the insertion to be strong enough to start gentle strengthening exercises, and 4-6 months to regain full strength of the insertion.
As you mentioned, the next few weeks I’ll be working on improving range of motion (extension, flexion, and supination).
I like your albinofro! Your butt looks big.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Looking good. We missed all the pretty colors. They gonna have you regain extension mobility first before strengthening?[/quote]
Good to hear you are on the mend. Can you do anything to keep a little blood flowing into the area? I don’t know much about bone/tendon mending but I’m sure you’ve got a lot of PT in your future.
Any thoughts about getting back to some weights about this time next year or maybe by year end?
[quote]Oldman Powers wrote:
Good to hear you are on the mend. Can you do anything to keep a little blood flowing into the area? I don’t know much about bone/tendon mending but I’m sure you’ve got a lot of PT in your future.
Any thoughts about getting back to some weights about this time next year or maybe by year end?[/quote]
I start PT on Monday. I think that is mostly range of motion stuff, which I’ve already started.
After about 3-4 weeks, I’ll start strengthening - probably pink dumbbell stuff at first. I should be back to near full strength in another 3 months or so. I will lift weights again, but a 280 DL from the floor may be my high water mark. 
I will be making a religion of deload weeks in the future.
PT sucks, but its gotta get done. I’m glad you are on the mend.
3/17/2010
Race to $alina: 53.8 miles to go.
Had first PT session on Monday. Not much that I wasn’t already doing.
Arm is feeling a lot better, but the incision scar is a bitch. I can still feel the not-so absorbable sutures under the skin. Had several ends poke out and had to cut them off. Then there was one area that just wouldn’t heal. Turned out there was a knot of suture just under the skin. I had to dig it out with a tweezer. I would have preferred standard sutures to these damn things by about 10 zillion to one.
Next doc visit is 4/12. No strengthening until then. Just range of motion stuff in the mean time.
On the mend. Keep doing the rom stuff. Beware, all PTs are sadists.