..... Separated my left shoulder AC joint. Have started PT and yesterday rode the Spyder around the neighborhood a bit to check the ability. No pain at all from riding, just donning and adjusting the strap for the helmet.
Has anyone ridden the Spyder with this injury? I'm not pushing it - we will take the cage to Barber this year - but would be great to start riding the 20 miles to the vintage bike club meetings again.
Been there, done that, numerous surgeries, more times than I like to remember; all after being told that I'd be lucky to ever lift anything heavier than a coffee cup again, and that I'd
NEVER lift my hands above shoulder height
ever again! :yikes:
But I'm a bit of a stubborn & driven person, so I looked at the exercises that I was given/told would help and then actively sought out those things I enjoyed doing that included similar movements so that I could work them into as much of my daily activities as possible - and then worked at doing any/all of those things as often as I could without causing excessive pain &/or stressing anything too much! After a lot of initial concern (and maybe even juuust a tad of disbelief until they actually
SAW my Spyder and how it 'worked' my shoulders just like some of the exercises they recommended...
) and then some further/thorough investigations, just about all of those things,
including Spyder riding, were 'allowed'
So I did them all, including some Spyder riding (well, orright, maybe it was 'a lot!'
) and collectively, they worked so well that these days,
ALL the Medical Practitioners, Surgeons, & PT's who oversee my ongoing treatment consider
gentle Spyder riding to be a significant contributor to my relatively rapid recovery from serious & extensive bi-lateral shoulder damage and my eventual return to what is effectively a
Full range of motion and very near full strength in both shoulders, including while lifting both hands above my head!
hyea:
So if your Spyder's DPS is functioning as it should and you don't push things too hard too early in your recovery, then once you can lift your hands to elbow height without issue & it doesn't hurt to push/pull on the handlebars, then I'm convinced that some gentle Spyder riding can be a great exercise that can be a real help in your healing & in regaining that full range of motion & shoulder strength. You still need to do the exercises your Treatment Supervisors/PT recommends, but in my experience, Spyder riding only serves to enhance all of those and the benefits you gain. Maybe it's got a lot to do with the mind-state that riding helps bring about, but I reckon it's more to do with the relatively gentle but persistent exercising in itself that riding your Spyder is, just so long as you don't push it too hard too early. :lecturef_smilie:
Do check with those supervising your treatment first, and if they have any doubts, try to get them to actually
look at how the Spyder works and how riding it will enhance their movement exercises and gradually allow you to rebuild strength without overly stressing the joints or muscles concerned, then listen to what they say; but it's certainly worked for me, despite my initial prognosis being quite dire! Just don't try to push your riding too hard too quickly! :thumbup:
Good Luck :cheers: And as I might have said earlier, don't push things too hard too soon - but I not only
say -
Just Do It, I then went out there and I DID IT! And it worked fine for me! hyea:
Now if only I could work out how to include Spyder riding into my recovery from surgery on both eyes?? :dontknow:
