Recovering from a broken arm.

[Aar0n]

I broke my arm during an arm wrestling match. The break was a humurous spiral fracture and I required surgery.
Slept in a lazy-boy chair every night for 3 months and I lost a good 15 pounds. My biggest fear when the splint was removed was my ROM. My arm was literally stuck in the position of when it was in a sling. My arm took a lot of attention and some pain to finally straighten and stretch out. I am shy over 4 months into recovery. I am about 65% back to the strength I had before but my arm feels a bit wonky. Still, my arms are two different and noticiably in sizes and psychologically, this is frustrating. It hurts to do any lifts that puts the humurous bone into a compression, or pushing movement. Push-ups, dips, bench press, etc etc. I don't like it at all. But, I don't let this stop me from working out.

Has anyone suffered a similair injury? Any tips or suggestions?

[TT Eric]

No fun, Bro! Take care.

Eric

[#8]

I had a broken left arm from hockey when I was 17 straight across breaking both the radius and the ulna. Really gnarly break that required two doctors to set properly, but I did not need surgery. I did have two separate casts that lasted about 4 months in total.

Took a LONG time to get the mobility and confidence back in that arm. When it came out of the cast it was tiny and shriveled due to atrophy.

Took only a few months to sort it back out and now my left arm is bigger than my right.

Its a long road back but it will likely be fine. Dont push beyond what is necessary and do proper physio.