 Poster: A snowHead
|
I've been getting fit, losing weight, and getting very excited in anticipation of my trip to Banff for snowboarding in excellent power conditions.
So, yesterday I help my other half train a pony in a carriage and I hang on to the lead rope when it gets spooked, I run hanging on but I'm pulled over onto tarmac road and dislocate my shoulder (ambulance, hospital, reduction 4 hours later). Theoretically, that's me out for the rest of the season. 
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Fri 18-02-11 23:28; edited 1 time in total
|
|
|
|
|
|
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
|
|
|
|
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
|
sherlock235, thanks.  I may try seeing how easy it is to board with one arm.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
|
|
Just come back from a week's boarding in Banff. Did pomas, t-bars, double-black diamond couloirs, powder bowls, the hard packed runs on the top of Goat's Eye - it's all doable with a recently dislocated right-hand arm/shoulder. You just have to board more carefully/cautiously, which isn't so much fun, but it can be done. Operating a mouse is a right pain though.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
|
|
crosbie, you are clearly well hard.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
|
|
|
|
|
|
crosbie,
| Quote: |
| but I'm pulled over onto tarmac road and dislocate my shoulder |
You were lucky. A girl I work with was doing the same as you recently. Holding the rope when the horse went nuts... the rope must have somehow wrapped itself round her finger cos a couple of seconds later she's standing there with a bone and a flap of skin and flesh hanging down. Peeled so to speak! The docs in Wolfratshausen did an amazing job putting it all back together again. Looks almost as good as new now!
How the hell did you manage to board so soon after dislocating your shoulder? No way could I have gone skiing again so soon after dislocating mine.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Steilhang wrote: |
| seconds later she's standing there with a bone and a flap of skin and flesh hanging down. Peeled so to speak! The docs in Wolfratshausen did an amazing job putting it all back together again. Looks almost as good as new now! |
Ouch! 
I was careful to avoid entanglement. On hindsight, I was not careful to avoid dislocation, but it's too late now, my arm is permanently compromised. On hindsight I should have let go and let my other half get whatever fate the gods had in store.
I reckon the only chance I might have had in persuading the spooked horse to stop would have been to pass the lead rope/ribbon behind my waist/backside and give it a fierce jolt tug-o-war style in conjunction with shouting "Whoah!", before immediately releasing the lead rope/ribbon and getting the heck away from it.
| Steilhang wrote: |
| How the hell did you manage to board so soon after dislocating your shoulder? No way could I have gone skiing again so soon after dislocating mine. |
Funnily enough, I was just about to pack my baggage for the flight in the morning when my other half asked me to lead this ba5tard pony in pair harness. So, yes, it can't get much closer than that - aside from dislocating the shoulder upon arrival at resort and falling over as you walk to the hotel door, or in a bad landing on a jump on the first morning.
The only thing a recently dislocated shoulder injury does to a snowboarder is deprive them of the use of their arm (I'm regular and it's my right, so rear arm). It's only painful if you try and use it - or fall on it. It's excruciating agony (needing emergency medical attention) upon dislocation which also persuades one to board carefully, especially as it's now very weak and easily re-dislocated. I found a pint of beer was necessary after my first run. I was being dangerously wimpy.
If you hide your arm under your coat you can soon manage to believe you no longer have it, and can stop unwittingly trying to stick it out (the consequent pain also reminds you). Balance, compensation, and restoring the board to correct alignment is a tad more difficult without two arms, so steering, and greater use of feet and legs have to compensate for the loss of an arm's ability to help.
So, I had a snowboarding holiday, but it was a less skillful one, i.e. there was more falling-leaf, Z traverses and less Ses down the steep runs. The icy hard pack pistes on the top of Goat's Eye also had me boarding fast & flat until I had a hint of snow underneath and could dare edge it.
I was extremely foolish, but heck, I'd been looking forward to it. I'd give my right arm to go snowboarding - and did. I was lucky+skilfull that I didn't fall on it (or get wiped out by another) and re-dislocate it. So, it's not at all advisable, but it is doable.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
|
crosbie,
| Quote: |
| especially as it's now very weak and easily re-dislocated |
When I did mine ( blue piste... blue should be banned ) I spent the first few days thinking this was not going to be a big deal and swung my arm around as much as I could. Anyway, back in Munich I finally got round to seeing a specialist who saw me swinging into his office and said "either you get that arm into a sling and keep it there for the next two weeks or we'll be seeing each other in my operating theater in six months time. Your choice."
I took his 'advice' and have not had any problems with the arm since. No spurious re-dislocations, nothing.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Steilhang, I did some research and apparently the jury is out concerning whether mobilisation or immobilisation is better. At least in my case, my arm hasn't had much mobilisation if any. I still rode with it in a sling because it was painful otherwise.
As for recovery/physiotherapy, it seems it's going to be an argument between painless gradual use and painful mobilisation exercises. Who to believe? My body or the physio?
I don't think the arm 'spuriously' re-dislocates, it's just that it takes a lot less force to re-dislocate it given the containment musculature has been permanently compromised.
Anyway, sorry to hear you fell foul of a blue piste. I guess it was a fall on hard pack for you?
|
|
|
|
|
|
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
|
crosbie,
| Quote: |
| I guess it was a fall on hard pack for you? |
no, I was on a piste that I've been on a million times, in zero viz just coming up to the lift station when I skied straight into a heap of snow that hadn't been there the year before  I've injured myself a few times now. Every time on blue pistes...
|
|
|
|
|
|
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
|
Steilhang, zero viz. Yup, what you can't see can't hurt you, or sommat like that. I've skied off the edge of a piste in zero viz, tail end of assym board landed in snow and buggered up my ankle tendons for the rest of the season. We, must learn to be more careful. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FAQ
