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  • January 5, 2014 at 8:13 pm #20414
    lisa76uk

    Hi everyone,

    I’ve recently got back into cycling after a break. I used to do a lot of mountain biking and some bmx. Anyway, sorry for a question on my first post, but…

    I managed to slip over at home yesterday and break my right arm (radius, just above the wrist) so I’m in a cast now for 6 weeks. I wondered if anyone has any tips re: nutrition (I’m vegan) or physio to help speed up the healing process and get me riding again quicker.

    Needless to say I’m feeling pretty gutted at the moment and a bit of an idiot.

    Thanks in advance and good to meet you all!
    Lisa

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  • January 6, 2014 at 3:34 pm #767599
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    lisa76uk

    Thanks for taking the time to
    Thanks for taking the time to reply everyone!

    Sadly, I don’t have a turbo trainer at the moment. I do have gym membership so I do have the option of static exercise bikes and exercising legs on weight machines, but I’m thinking it might be better to let my body rest up and heal as Gizmo suggests. Also the sweat issue that ragtimecyclist raised is a good point.

    I’ve not heard of Scott Jurek, Sideburn, but I will certainly look him up as it sounds interesting not only from a recovery point of view, but in also in terms of general vegan nutrition for fitness.

    I do eat a healthy, balanced, varied diet so I ‘should’ have most of the bases covered, but I do use supplements to ensure I get everything I need on a daily basis. I picked up vegan-friendly calcium/magnesium/zinc today just to help boost my calcium intake. I also found a .pdf online recommending extra protein in the diet and a higher daily calorific intake to help the body produce the materials needed and have enough energy to heal properly. How true it is? I don’t know, but it can’t hurt trying.

    I’m also considering gently stretching daily after a few more days just to make sure I don’t start tightening up.

    The biggest challenge is that I’m right-handed and it’s my right arm that’s broken, so there’s been some problem solving going on! Ha! 🙂

    Thanks again! Lisa

    January 6, 2014 at 1:09 pm #767597
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    ragtimecyclist

    I broke a thumb a couple of
    I broke a thumb a couple of years back and ended up with a comically large plaster up to my wrist (no doubt to teach me to be more carfel in future).

    Anyway, i was recklessly impatient and went out on my bike again almost immediately – i didn’t come off or anything, but the sweat that was generated in the plaster made for a pretty unpleasant and very itchy 4 weeks in the cast.

    Not recommended!

    January 6, 2014 at 1:05 pm #767595
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    Anonymous

    From my experience of
    From my experience of breaking my wrist last year – you can’t rush it. Definitely a case of resting it. Eat lots of calcium-rich foods (dark green veg like watercress, nuts etc) and get lots of vitamin D (synthetically or by sunshine) as that helps your body absorb it.

    And get a knitting needle or similar for those annoying itches.

    January 6, 2014 at 9:30 am #767593
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    SideBurn

    Why is it that despite doing
    Why is it that despite doing a fair amount of risky stuff I always seem to injure myself doing something stupid or mundane?
    Broken toe = I kicked a fridge (because someone nicked my cheese!)
    Collar bone= fell out of a sand-pit
    As for speeding up the heeling process…. good luck with that! If you can come up with a plan that works I will be interested; I suspect it would be worth a few quid!
    I suspect that you could maintain some of your fitness using a turbo-trainer and the increase in blood flow to the injury would help the healing process, this is what I would do, but it has to be done pain free!
    Have you heard of the vegan ultra-runner Scott Jurek? He has written an auto-biography (Eat and Run) with lots of vegan thoughts and recipes that I think would be of interest to any sportsperson but in particular vegans!
    But…. injuries are s**t; you just have to be (a) patient!

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