First crash. Ouch.

Evoke

@£$%^& Next thing i know i was on my back and couldn't move my right arm and it was bloody hurting. I got up and we both were rather sheepish. :oops: He seemed fine and i was a 15 min walk away from home so off i strolled in agony. Get home and still in agony and no arm movement so decide to go to A&E. Have an x-ray and find i have a posterior shoulder dislocation. The doc said it was a rare dislocation as it usually comes out the front rather than the back. 8) After quite a bit of pulling, stretching. twisting, pushing, pain and loads of gas it pops back in. That gas is amazing stuff. So now i have my arm in a sling for a couple of weeks just when i was beginning to get some fitness.

And that's the story of my first crash. Not exactly a stunner, but damn painful.

synchronicity

Yeah that gas is pretty knarly. And so is intravenous morphine.

EDIT: I forgot to say: chin up. These things only serve to make you come back stronger than ever before!!! :twisted:

oldwelshman

Evoke wrote:

@£$%^& Next thing i know i was on my back and couldn't move my right arm and it was bloody hurting. I got up and we both were rather sheepish. :oops: He seemed fine and i was a 15 min walk away from home so off i strolled in agony. Get home and still in agony and no arm movement so decide to go to A&E. Have an x-ray and find i have a posterior shoulder dislocation. The doc said it was a rare dislocation as it usually comes out the front rather than the back. 8) After quite a bit of pulling, stretching. twisting, pushing, pain and loads of gas it pops back in. That gas is amazing stuff. So now i have my arm in a sling for a couple of weeks just when i was beginning to get some fitness.

And that's the story of my first crash. Not exactly a stunner, but damn painful.

Reminds me of the time I did my right shoulder playing rugby and when in the hospital they x-rayed my left!!
I assumed they knew what they were doing and perhaps were going to do both to compare They only didi the left, and the radiographer said, you shoulder looks fine!! When I aksed if she was now going to xray the injurde shoulder she looked rather embarrassed!!

tarpaullynn

oldwelshman wrote:

Reminds me of the time I did my right shoulder playing rugby and when in the hospital they x-rayed my left!!
I assumed they knew what they were doing and perhaps were going to do both to compare They only didi the left, and the radiographer said, you shoulder looks fine!! When I aksed if she was now going to xray the injurde shoulder she looked rather embarrassed!!

Not cycling related but a similar hospital experience.

I had a real bad infection on my lower back caused by an ingrown hair and was to have an operation to remove the infected area.

Male nurse comes in to shave me before the op so I lay on my front, he say that's no good you'll have to lie on your back, so thinking he knows what he's doing I flip over onto my back, he then tells me to drop my shorts as he needs to shave the top of my legs and my nuts. I ask why when I'm having an op on my back? He then says are you not Mr So and so? I say no I'm Mr ?????? He says Oh! I'll be back in a minute.

Back he comes and says your right you are having a back op :roll: lie on your front.

So as he's shaving my back I asked him what op he thought I was having?

VASECTOMY!! :shock:

Glad I wasn't knocked out before he shaved me, I'd be talking in a high voice now

P.S. When I say a bad infection, needed 2 ops in total and was off work for 9 months, all because of a curly hair

Anyway back to the subject, First Crash, Ouch.............................

Ieuanllan

Sympathies Evoke!

I sprained my AC joint in a climbing wall a couple of months ago, and that hurt plenty, a proper dislocation must have killed.

robjhp

Dont worry mate,have you read about this Killjoy cyclist sueing his club mate for damages.You could be in for a mega pay day.Hope you recover soon.

McBain_v1

Hope that you get a speedy recovery

el_presidente

google shoulder dislocations and recovery and read up on it.

I have done mine twice. there is conflicting advice but numerous papers state there is no benefit in keeping the arm immobilised and in fact it will do harm as all the muscles seize up and regaining full movement is much more problematic.

When I first did mine it was in France and they put it in a very restrictive sling whihc meant I had zero movement. On return to blighty I went to see the specialist and the first thing he said even before examining me was "well you can throw that sling away"

My other advice is go to physio and do the exercises properly.

I would add though that my dislocations were anterior i.e. to the front so check the above advice applies to posterior as well.

Evoke

EL_PRESIDENTE: How long before you got back on the bike?

I did have a look around on the net and i read the same. Some say to keep the arm immobilised for 3 weeks, others say to start mobility as soon as possible to avoid stiffness. I started doing some movements after a few days but keep it in a sling just to rest it. I can't believe how weak it feels. Takes all my effort just to raise my arm.

I saw the doc yesterday and have to go back in 6 weeks. She said i should do physio and gave me an NHS physiotherapy referral form. It has no address or any kind of appointment details on it? Do i just go along to my nearest physio place and it's paid for by the NHS?

el_presidente

Evoke wrote:

EL_PRESIDENTE: How long before you got back on the bike?

I did have a look around on the net and i read the same. Some say to keep the arm immobilised for 3 weeks, others say to start mobility as soon as possible to avoid stiffness. I started doing some movements after a few days but keep it in a sling just to rest it. I can't believe how weak it feels. Takes all my effort just to raise my arm.

I saw the doc yesterday and have to go back in 6 weeks. She said i should do physio and gave me an NHS physiotherapy referral form. It has no address or any kind of appointment details on it? Do i just go along to my nearest physio place and it's paid for by the NHS?

I was lucky enough to have private physio, not sure how it works on the NHS I'm afraid

I wasn't really a cyclist at the time, I was happy enough doing normal activities after a coupel of weeks but mine felt "strange" for a few months and gradually got back to normal over that time.