Just wondering if breaking or dislocating a a joint like your wrist, elbow, or shoulder increased or decreased its range of motion after it had healed?

Dislocated my knee 2 years ago - still having problems..... mobility about 80%

Knee grinds when I straighten and unstraighten leg - disgusting when you are climbing stairs! Dr got to refer me for more physio - thinks that will fix it.

HOWEVER:D

If you get a good physio and excercise well, you should have no problems - heed the advice, I haven't exercised as much as I should have so my knee is still weak, tends to give way occasionally and also have the grinding.:(

My friend BROKE her kneecap :gag: but she worked really really hard and now has no problems with it at all, even running in a marathon - mobility 100%:clap: :thumbsup:

What joint have you done?

About 4 years ago now I broke and dislocated my right wrist after some high jinx with my friends and I post-leadmill for another mates birthday.

Previous to that I'd broken my left arm falling out of my treehouse when I was about 4, fractured my skull as a baby falling off a kitchen counter top and had a suspected (but thankfully misdiagnosed) broken neck after being involved in an RTA on Ecclesall road on my bicycle when I was about 13.

I can firmly say that dislocating my wrist (and shattering the socket that it had come out of) was the most pain I'd ever felt and I was so lubricated that they couldn't give me any painkillers for the first 5 hours of my treatment at the Northern General. The nurses all took the michael massively of course. Mind you, that is to be expected when a young, drunk male turns up with a busted wrist for no good reason. I got a bit of a lecture from one of them about the amount of money it costs the NHS patching up idiots the likes of me. Funnily enough I saw the same nurse about 6 months later down the Leadmill again. I bought him and his friends a drink and all was forgiven...

In terms of movement- I had about 8 months of physio at a Swiss Hospital (I'd had to move to Switzerland a week after doing my wrist as I'd just got a job out there) and those guys were stunning. It still clicks, and if I move it through the plain that it was dislocated in the first place it's still tender, but I can still ride my motorbike, play tennis, write and all the rest absolutely fine. It's just the lifting of frying pans that hurts. Or so I tell my girlfriend....

2 years ago I broke my funny bone, after spending 5 weeks in plaster it took me months of physio and exercise to regain use, even now I cannot fully straighten my arm. I would say it is about 95% normal.

Smashed my shoulder up pretty bad when i was 14, i'm 21 now and still have arthritis type symptopms in the cold/doing strenuous work.

Joel

Damaged my ankle severely (ligaments & tendants twisted and torn) when I was around 15/16 whilst kicking something I probably shouldn't have...

In a pot for 12/13 weeks.. Well I have to learn the hard way don't I!

fractured my scaphoid and radius at jitsu.
6 years on, movement is fully restored that took a year or two, but it is sensitive to wristlocks, ie they go on quickly and damage it easily, so I wear a wrist support when training. No other problems with it though, it's not something that i even remember unless someone reminds me.

My SO broke her wrist, worse than mine, clean break through the radius, displaced but not quite poking out of her arm (also at jitsu).
She has a nice scar where they operated to put a plate in, and she has about 50% vertical movement in that wrist now and it hurts easily. She also wears wrist supports at training.

I snapped one of the ligaments in my ankle. Tripped off a kerb onto my car bonnet, rolled of the car bonnet and hit the floor and knocked myself out... All this outside my house. My dad came running out of the house and thought I'd somehow run myself over with my own car.

Hurt like hell - took ages to heal and is still "weak" as my Grandma puts it.

Just wondering if breaking or dislocating a a joint like your wrist, elbow, or shoulder increased or decreased its range of motion after it had healed?

That's an impossible question to answer - every break is different. Dont spend too much time comparing the injuries of others to that of your own example, as chances are it'll be a completely different set of circumstances.

Originally posted by jackthedog
That's an impossible question to answer - every break is different. Dont spend too much time comparing the injuries of others to that of your own example, as chances are it'll be a completely different set of circumstances.

to be fair, i've never heard of a break or dislocation increasing the range of mobility. A dislocation might weaken the ligaments and so make the joint looser, ie more easy to dislocate, but it's range of motion won't be increased.

Dunno about dislocation but breaking elbows and wrists can leave you with restricted movement especially the elbow area.

If you have done anything Struggle get some physio lined up for yourself. It really helps rebuild the muscle and get movement back.

They never really heal if a nasty break - you'll get a twinge years later when you'd forgotten all about it - it comes back to haunt you.

Originally posted by absynthfairy
My dad came running out of the house and thought I'd somehow run myself over with my own car.

Well, absynthfairy, you wouldn't have been the only person ever to have done it!

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Was going to say 'broke my leg'...but I'll change that to 'had my leg broke' by some fool playing football about 6 years back - nasty break/dislocated ankle & damaged lgaments - 3 operations followed - more metalwork than Barry Sheen in my leg now but playing football again.

Feels about 90% now, but as people have said - getting out of plaster asap and starting work with a good physio will give you the best chance...