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Tell me to bugger off if necessary, but I was hoping someone here might have some relevant advice or experiences concerning going from an arm in a sling to V13.

Any tips or experiences about keeping my left arm strong and recovering fully? I started physical therapy today (injury was eight days ago near North Conway, NH) and I am allowed to work on range of motion, play guitar, and squeeze with my hand...until it hurts too much.

If you don't know anything, just give me false hope; I was in the best climbing shape of my life nine days ago and had barely started projecting.

its just a bone! work on the 12oz curls, you'll heal and climb again.

No experience with that injury, but just keep on the rehab plan, eat lots of pills, and stop complaining.

And what are the painful details of your demise? Up near North Conway it seems pretty likely you had a bondage accident...

an ulna is like a labia right?

skav wrote:And what are the painful details of your demise? Up near North Conway it seems pretty likely you had a bondage accident...

All bear-wrestling and trad decking stories aside, I learned that when bouldering, my instinct is to fall safely to the best of my ability. When excitedly walking in flip-flops to a river at midnight with my first beer in one hand and several more in a backpack, my instinct is to save the beer. And so I did, absorbing most of the lowball impact with my elbow as the pine-needly slope flew my flip-flops forward.

So many one-arm pullups. So many. I'm working full-time at a climbing wall this summer so now all I do is spew beta, tell people to train harder, and hang from my already unbalanced arm.

Light weight.

Ah weren' durnk!

I did take a 7-beer 2-foot buildering fall onto my coccyx (self-diagnosed) a few weeks ago though...stupid stupid stupid.

must be horrible to be frail.

Walking injuries are the most deadly.

Ha!

Also, heal up.

fuck you porch.

lurker, you'll be fine. if i can shatter like 10 different bones and climb my at best 9 months after the fact, i'm pretty sure you'll crushing again in ... i dunno, what'd your doctor say, 6 to 8 weeks?

ike eats a lot of reef fish.

might have a lot to do with his recovery and or brittle bones.

not sure.

oh, and he hangs out in england.

also, may have impact on bone brttleness.

Ikefromla wrote:lurker, you'll be fine. if i can shatter like 10 different bones and climb my at best 9 months after the fact, i'm pretty sure you'll crushing again in ... i dunno, what'd your doctor say, 6 to 8 weeks?

Jeezum. Good to hear, though.

Eh, they said 6 weeks for bone to heal and "three months minimum" for ligaments to heal...more months for strength to come back.

I am skeptical because that really sucks and, goddammit, don't they whose arm this is?? Maybe I should see a sports therapist rather than an kind old 4-foot-6 woman.

get all arron ralston on that shit. hack it off with a swiss army knife. then, carry on.

and yet other post useless trash talk on the internets all the dayz long...

Houses make sense.

Considering the option of publication by amputation a bit more seriously then?

Start with your head.

niceporch wrote:An Internet message board without trash talk makes as much sense a whore house without whores.

exactly. It's like sending without a photog present. Whats the point?


If a project goes down in the woods and there's no one there to photograph it .. did it really get sent?

KIX wrote:an ulna is like a labia right?

its like a big protruding loose one.

aired out sideways slightly, this isn't the air, it was bigger, WAY FREAKIN BIGGER FOOLS



broke cuneiform



1 week later, so done. SON.