Thread: wrist=fuct

yeah while working on my mad trials steeze yesterday in the apex parking lot, i went to manual my front tire up in a light post base and flipped over. Thankfully wearing my helmet, which saved my melon, but not my wrist which broke most of my fall. Instant swelling and sharp pain, followed by extreme anger at myself for screwing something up this early in the season. Now i am chicken typing and icing my wrist like crazy waiting to go to the doc this afternoon, instead of screwing around in an ER for a few hours. I think its a severe sprain (hopefully), because i can push and pull with the hand, but not bend it up and down so good. The schedule was freeing up for a bunch of rides in the next few weeks with good weather. This is the way life goes sometimes and I guess I should be appreciative of all the riding that I have done without getting hurt in the past. Just not happy that it was in the parking lot, screwing around.

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sounds like you need to swing through the padded room for some "training"

Sorry to hear, that sucks.

Bummer crinkle, make sure they check the scaphoid bone. If your x-rays come back negative you still might want to make an ortho appointment. Some scaphoid fractures don't show up on initial x-rays. Aslo the possibility of a triangular fibrocartilage tear or scapho-lunate ligament injury can't be seen on x-ray and should be check for by an ortho.

dangit crank-head. Don't be getting hurt this early in the game. Hope it's nothing more than a sprain.

and use that back brake dammit.

damn....

No....... Tape it good and keep riding...

i wish it was as easy as taping it a going.

brake was on, but seat was too high, so my weight was back, which sent me over backwards. down fall of being clipped in as well

bummer. some of my worst wipeouts are from stupid wheely tricks. hope it's just a strain for you.

Bummer Crink. Hopefully it's not too bad.

I learned the hard way that trials/wheelies and clipless pedals don't play well together.

Well, look on the bright side Crink. At least you didn't do it in front of 5-6 friends who almost died of laughter after watching you fall on your ass. Hopefully, you have the foresight to not do it again one week later in a full parking lot at the trailhead and land on the still massive bruise which had formed on your ass. Not that I would know anything about this...

Crinkle, I did the same thing twice in 6 months. Well, not while practicing stunts, but I had the same mechanism of injury twice. The first one was a distal radius fracture, and I was up riding again full speed in a month, and the other was a triquetral fracture, which, in my completely non-expert opinion, kindof sounds like what you just did. I wore a removeable cast and was skiing less than a week after the injury.

So, if it is indeed broken, its definitely not the end of the world.

Bummer, but look at it this way....You're doing better than one of my friends who just broke his tib-fib in 3 places while goofing around doing front gainers to his feet over his handlebars. He landed on his feet wrong and SNAP!
As I told him, at least its still early. The entrie summer isn't wiped out, its only April. Hopefully ts just a mild sprain.

damn crunk.....Here's hoping it's just a sprain++++++

Originally Posted by Arty50

Well, look on the bright side Crink. At least you didn't do it in front of 5-6 friends who almost died of laughter after watching you fall on your ass. Hopefully, you have the foresight to not do it again one week later in a full parking lot at the trailhead and land on the still massive bruise which had formed on your ass. Not that I would know anything about this...

That's funny as hell. To bad I don't know what that's like.....oh wait...I did the exact same thing but only once. Damn clipless pedals. Give it time and I'm sure I'm bound for a second time.

Heal up crinkle, hoping it's nothing too serious.

yeah arty it was only 2 friends

just got back from the doc, its not broken, he thinks (could be hairline), have to wait a week for the swelling to go down. the re-examine and hope its not ligaments and/or tendons, which would be surgery +6weeks. Pending my healing powers, optomistically it could be 3-6 weeks to full speed. thanks for the thoughts, now off to get my uber vicodin perscription filled, retarded posts to follow.

Glad it's not broken! That's good. My worst biking injuries have always been on stupid crap. I had a really bad sprain on my wrist that still plagues me 2 years later while downhilling at Keystone and deciding to take this stupid jump (like a foot high) off the side. Crashed so hard and it was so dumb.

Not even a month later I returned to Keystone for a DH race and was training in the morning. Made it through all the technical stuff nice and clean and was so psyched (good training run!).... then WAM.... down so fast. On what? I still don't know. I think I fell on a pebble. Seriously. I thought I'd just jammed my thumb until I tried to break and shift on my bike and realized I couldn't b/c my thumb just kept flopping back. Yep, flopping back, nearly all the way to the wrist. Obviously tore a ligament. I went down to the bottom and told my friends I'd just torn a ligament and was going to go tape up my thumb so I could still do my race run. They just looked at me funny and handed me a beer.... convinced me I should drink all day instead Good thing was that I was riding one month after surgery. Don't tell the doc that though

wrist=limpt

Originally Posted by Crinkle

yeah arty it was only 2 friends

just got back from the doc, its not broken, he thinks (could be hairline), have to wait a week for the swelling to go down. the re-examine and hope its not ligaments and/or tendons, which would be surgery +6weeks. Pending my healing powers, optomistically it could be 3-6 weeks to full speed. thanks for the thoughts, now off to get my uber vicodin perscription filled, retarded posts to follow.

good to hear it crink,

just don't skip the re-xray once the swelling goes donw and things start feeling better. That is what gets peeps with undiagnosed scaphoid fractures in trouble.

For now ice 20 min on 1-2 hrs off 20 min on, repeat as much as possible.

just got back from MORE x-rays, results tomorrow still in some pain with movement and tension, general pain has gone away, swelling is finally down.

Doc says if x-rays negative again, referal to hand surgeon

Originally Posted by Crinkle

just got back from MORE x-rays, results tomorrow still in some pain with movement and tension, general pain has gone away, swelling is finally down.

Doc says if x-rays negative again, referal to hand surgeon

Bummer dude You should talk to hev-- he broke his last weekend. The two of you should engage in some serious drunken debauchery

FUUUUGGG
minimally displaced fracture of the distal radius
orthopedic doc tomorrow. waaaa, time for a cocktail

Originally Posted by Crinkle

FUUUUGGG
minimally displaced fracture of the distal radius
orthopedic doc tomorrow. waaaa, time for a cocktail

dang dood. sorry to hear. heal up fast and get yo ass back on the new bike.

cast for 3 weeks, then xray, then hpefully no surgery as long as the bone fuses back correctly and i don't ahave a chip floating in space

cast off, sore, bone is healed muscles are not quite there yet. Wearing a splint for "activity" time. Where is Beaver, i need some rehab material

permission granted to road ride, have to hold off on dirt for a week or two. The muscles are weak and doc says my balance could be off, especially in mid-air. Fact that the doc knows what i want to do was pretty cool.