Regular readers will remember I broke my wrist back in August. Well, the plaster just came off and now it hurts like hell! It appears that the tendons, having been idle for alll that time, now have to start to earn their keep again.
Suggestions for therapy? (Doc says use a squeeze-ball)
How long for getting back to normal? I've got some bricks I want to lay!
The person to advise you on that is your physiotherapist. If the NHS hasn't got one spare for you, it almost certainly is worth paying for a private session or two.
If you resist the temptation to use it before it is fully recovered, you will get full use back sooner than if you try to rush it.
I don't think I ever broke my wrist, but many years ago I did something to it, and peridically it would 'go' again and be unsueably agonising for a week or two.
I mentioned it to a student doctor, and he stold me that the tissues repair with scar tissue, which is inflexible, and that rips under stress.
He recommended that I keep the joint moving under low stress when it was healing.
I practiced sort of rotating 'gay waves' - very limp wristed - the next time, and it never came back.
So, just move it to the limit, till it hurts, and then relax. Don't strain it, just stretch it and get it mobile in every direction you can. Mobility is what you want, not amazing strength.
Think a squeeze ball is not best. IANOAD. Try talking with your hands as on late night PC Beeb.
I would have thought that you should have been automatically referred on to the physiotherapy dept. of the hospital that plastered you. Perhaps weekly appointments to start with. Why not see if such a facility is available to you.
Well! If you were referred for physio' ... you'd be on a 'waiting-list'! You'd then be a _statistic_ ! 'Tone' has issued a ukase that 'Waiting Lists' must be reduced! If people like you insisted on clogging up waiting list demanding treatment then the list would grow and 'Tone' wouldn't be happy ... in fact some public servant might experience his wrath and not be recommended for an OBE ...!
Listen up! You're not on a waiting list - you must be OK! (?).
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