Skiing with broken bones

Lenard

Lenard

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alright i broke my thumb in three places two weeks ago and the doctor says no skiing for 6 weeks. But i dont want to wait. i have a brace the thumb is healing nicely and all i wanna do is cruise nothing to rediculous. You think i should go or just wait out the next 4 weeks.
 
cruising is fine. just dont fall on it. im cruising around with a blown out collarbone, and a buddy of mine is in a cast with a broken thumb.

go pole-less, cruise around, hit small stuff, and just try everything in your power NOT to fall on it and youll be fine.
 
I've been rolling on a broken wrist in a splint for awhile now. It hasn't slowed me down. Skiers thumb, on the other hand, has almost ended my life before. I feel your pain.
 
I went skiing in breck with a torn acl back in january (surgury in may) and I plan on shredding Tahoe on my spring break. I of course am not hitting a single jump or rail, mellow boxes for sho. I would suggest just taking it easy and enjoy cruising, my acl held up more than perfect just dont throw a 900 and land on your hand...
 
you are or were you speaking to me? its really not that bad, i just am so scared of what will happen if i fall on it.
 
It will get pretty fucked if you fall hard. My friend broke his collarbone 2 years ago and the doc said 6 weeks but after 4 he felt good and started biking. He cased a jump and flew down to the dirt and it rebroke his collarbone but way worse and seperated his shoulder because of it.
 
i need to get up there and cruise around. just got my brace of yesterday! how badly did you break yours and how long ago?
 
Does anyone else find that if they ski with something broken, their reflexes change?

I broke my thumb on the first hit of the day a couple of weeks ago, and carried on skiing. Whenever I ate it after that, I naturally went to protect my thumb. Instead of putting my hand out, I just took the impact on my shoulder of elbow.
 
dislocated like 7? weeks ago?

i waited about 5 to start skiing.

but basically the doctor said if i fall on it in the next 6 months before the ligament stabilizes im screwed.
 
ah. i did mine 7 weeks ago too. just got out of the immobilizer and for the next six weeks i cant really do anything or lift more than ten lbs with that arm. surgeon said if i landed on it it will just get destroyed
 
i broke my shoulder a few weeks ago, was told to take 5 weeks off but when a bluebird came along the next weekend i couldnt hold back and ended up falling on my shoulder again, taking me out another 2 weeks from skiing altogether and i still havnt been back in the park. as long as you can trust yourself to take it easy, do it. otherwise, stay clear.
 
I had the same injury over winter break and the doctor told me the same thing
I still skied on it, just no park for like 7 weeksHe told me that as long as I didn't wreck, it would be fine
So, I would still ski the mountain if I were you, just stay out of the park, cause weird stuff can happen on the easiest hit.
 
i played football with my broken thumb and it had a ligament torwn, deff had a cast! and cruising is good not much more. that was the second time it broke and the 2nd time hurts more and the second time the ligament torwe in half.
 
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I was feeling off so I decided to skip everything for a lap and I was going around this wallride that kinda looks like this from a straight on perspective

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I was just skiing along and I was going to ski left side of it and i somehow manage to clip my ski on the wall and fly 6-7 feet straight to ice landing on my shoulder, bye bye spring break
 
2 of my buddies are good to go with broken thumbs and another is in a full sling, haha get your rail trickery on...
 
i broke both my thumbs last year... one skiing, then one rollerblading... not at the same time tho. but if you bring in a pole they can mold the cast to it, and make sure you get the gore-tex stuff its comfy. i stayed away from jumps for a while too, just to be safe.
 
broken in 3 places and you have a brace?? I assume you are getting a cast soon? If you have a cast you are pretty much invincible so get a cast and shred away.
 
I skied with fractured fib and 2 fractured ankles, hurt like a bitch but didn't do more damaged. Althouhg didn't know i'd done it.

You sould be okay as long as you don't fall, so don't try and hit anything and ski slowly. Wouldn't recommend it though my buddy did this, fell on it and then needed surgery and was out for like 7 month from doing anything.
 
kinda suprised he didn't cast it to let you ski. thats what most doctors do...i just explain that i ski 4-5 days a week, and don't plan on stopping, so they cast when normally they would just give you a brace.
 
I have been skiing with 2 fractures in my vertebrae for a month, i get surgery in 10 days. the doctor said go for it since i cant fuck it up any worse until surgery.... live while i can cause after surgery im out for like 6 months.
 
possible lung shot, but dont worry, i did same thing ur doing, and same with my buddie but he broke it two more time in same spot within 6 weeks so ya dont fall
 
I broke my thumb and just wrapped it in electrical tape and kept skiing once. Its now messed up and dislocates all the time.

I also broke my ankle last April (second ankle break) and the stupid doc told me it was sprained so I started skiing on it again, in crazy pain, about 10 days later....

Found out via MRI this past fall that it was broken the whole time.....
 
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