Can anyone share some good comeback stories after a major injury?
My foot slipped coming off a drop and ended up with a Tibial Plateau Fracture 2 weeks ago. I’m going in for surgery on Friday and will be stuck on the couch for a few weeks before I can start my PT.
Not the best way to start off the season but lucky it wasn’t worse .
Help me not lose hope! Haha
by MTBSoCal661
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**The Matt Macduff Show:**
https://open.spotify.com/show/3XRvSGvM1ixo522bZpPxc2?si=A6dbEIOxRsGr2ty0IOHJRw
He is a free-rider, but he also did a podcast for a couple years (48 episodes total). The focus of the podcast is about injury recoveries and prevention/wellness, typically with a pro MTB’er or other extreme sports professionals as a guest on most episodes.
Yo, cased a gap landing with my front wheel like 3 years ago. Landed hands first into another jump, literally exploded my wrist and collarbone. 16 fractures in the wrist, 2 in collarbone with major dislocation. When all was known, the docs gave me a choice or either getting a steel bracket now and likely not being able to move my thumb, or wait for a week for them to get one specially made from Spain. I waited, but they told me no more biking, that I would not support my weight on my hand ever again. Op went fine, I was completely stuck for about 7 weeks and started slowly getting into physio.
I’ve seen couple specialists to see what I could do next but I never mentioned biking, only that I wanted to be able to hold on strong and hold up my weight.
About 8 months after the accident I was back on the bike for the first time. Been riding better ever since then.
Falling and crashing sucks, there will be hard times and bad news along the way. But the fall does not matter, it’s how we get the back up.
Speedy recovery my dude! Sending Strength from Ireland
Currently 7 weeks post op from a tibial plateau fracture that happened snowboarding.. It’s a long recovery but it gets better my dude. Got the ok for partial weight bearing and to ride the stationary bike last week. Only a matter of time till I’m back on the trails.
I spent most of ’20 and ’21 hobbling around or worse with a herniated L5/S1. I didn’t know how I was going to live and work much less ride. Walked every day and slowly got better (but without surgery) and am back to riding 3-4x/week. You can do it!
Tore my Achilles tendon first couple weeks of pandemic and couldn’t ride a bike for a year. Thought I would never be able to but now I’m doing 2000’ days again and running 10 miles with no pain. The body can come back from a lot, I’m just more cognizant of risks.