Anyone ever go through this?Did you ever regain the ability to fully extend your arm?Can you lift without pain?What did you do to regain strength?I had an extremely minor radial head fracture 3 months ago. Still 10-15% short of being able to fully extend my arm. Muscles in the forearm are extremely weak. I can pull with the arm, but pushing just about any weight (even a standing push-up against a wall) is still painful.
You might lose some ROM, but creating some joint space with passive/active stretches of the joint might help get you back to normal ranges. How serious was the injury, and how soon did you start therapy? https://exer-pedia.com/exercise/video-elbow-flexion-stretch-and-gap/
Why do you simply not ask the orthopedic physician treating you? They have probably treated hundreds if not thousands of people with your issue and have anecdotal + evidence based views on what your recovery will look like
>>77486131not op, but if he's an American, he's probably not even going to see the doc, let alone get an answer from him. No one gives a shit about outpatient rehab.
>>77486135U wot You're still supposed to see a physician outpatient every couple months if stable to monitor recovery
>>77486163Just speaking from my experience on the therapy side of things, most doctors hardly ever seem to really follow up with anything more than a five-minute chat and don't want to deal with it. Things are probably different if you end up with really good insurance, but if not, you get pretty shit care on all sides.
>>77486171This has not been my experience dealing with people with broken arms / ankles / hips (all different people), I think you just got shid luck brother
>>77486173I wasn't injured; I did outpatient therapy OT and listened to people complain about that sort of thing all the time. Think it just depends on how much money you have.
>>77486184Oh I don't know that OT side of things, I just know for fractures that require PT there's usually a doc following along at least every 2-3 months once stable until recovery
>>77485489I broke a growth plate in my arm at 11 years old, and my mum forgot to take me to the follow-up appointment with the doctor. So now my left arm is about an inch shorter than my right. Then later on I copped a few bad armbars and developed bone spurs in the same arm. The surgery for the bone spurs left my arm not being able to fully extend, which just made the length problem even worse.So, needless to say, my bench press is not very good.
I did my radial head four years ago and still have pain. I get sharpPain in the actual elbow and a strain all the way down my arm. Comes and goes depending what i do. Frustrating
>>77485489You would have to see the x rays and understand them and this has not happened to me so I am not well versed.
>>77486383Hear me out your arm is fucked up, just do most of your pressing without using your arms at all. Then you do arm workouts that you can do without injury. I adjust my grip, hand angle, style of bracing, etc for anything and find what works best. Not causing injury while also providing stimulus.
>>77488143I appreciate the advice, but I've found that dips and landmine press both work really well for me. I think the scapular movement in the dips makes up for my asymmetries, and landmine press is obviously unilateral. The latter also works better for my pretty poor shoulder mobility, because I don't need to jam them into a directly overhead position.
>>77486383>my mum forgot to take me to the follow-up appointment with the doctorwtf
