Custom/Hybrid Tommygunz Bicep rebuild

Tommygunz

Tommygunz

Team PHP
Location
Wisconsin
Well after tearing my left distal bicep on the last day of landscape construction work for the year, I will be sitting out the 2014 season to allow my bicep to reattach to my radius bone. Surgery was successful with two incissions, one on the inside with 10 stitches so he had room to find where the tendon end was and drill two holes in my radius bone and one incission on the outside with 7 staples that he had to pull the suture string through my bone and tie it off. Injury was December 6 with surgery the 19th and yesterday I got my cast off and am in a brace and can finally drive again!!! In Wisconsin you cant drive with a full arm cast so Ive been stranded at home since surgery.

Now that Im free its off to the gym shortly......cant use my left arm for a long time so legs and right upper it is;)
 

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Big Kahuna

Big Kahuna

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Location
Tuscaloosa, AL
You know your suppose to switch hands periodically right? LOL
Glad your getting better, I know that sucks. I am nursing a rotator-cuff injury in my shoulder now, worried about riding in Daytona, just going to play by feel.
 
feartheride

feartheride

feartheride
Location
St.Catharines,On.Canada
Big Kahuna said:
You know your suppose to switch hands periodically right? LOL
Glad your getting better, I know that sucks. I am nursing a rotator-cuff injury in my shoulder now, worried about riding in Daytona, just going to play by feel.
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Have any advice on that rotator cuff. I tore mine last aug. and thought it wasn't to bad and would heal, but real slow going.. never went to the dr., nothing they can do other then surgery..
 
Quinc

Quinc

Buy a Superjet
Location
California
feartheride said:
Have any advice on that rotator cuff. I tore mine last aug. and thought it wasn't to bad and would heal, but real slow going.. never went to the dr., nothing they can do other then surgery..
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Active release therapy, rolfing, and trigger point work. Also look up shoulder rehab exercises and stretches.
 
Big Kahuna

Big Kahuna

Administrator
Location
Tuscaloosa, AL
feartheride said:
Have any advice on that rotator cuff. I tore mine last aug. and thought it wasn't to bad and would heal, but real slow going.. never went to the dr., nothing they can do other then surgery..
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Did therapy. Helped some. Need to be doing more therapy at home. Been hurting since this summer also.
 
Tommygunz

Tommygunz

Team PHP
Location
Wisconsin
Thanks for the info and support guys! I've already got all kinds of therapy lined up:) breaking 30 bones during my moto years I've rehabbed plenty....just another scar and story:) Was gonna lean down for the ski season this winter but now I'll spend the next year bulking up! Love that!
 
Berky

Berky

Location
Fl
Dam that sucks ! all the best for a speedy recovery ! . What happened at work ? I should stick to the skis but the MX stuff is fun and hard to get away from , hope to start riding a ski by Daytona after my crash .
 
Tommygunz

Tommygunz

Team PHP
Location
Wisconsin
I was catching 100 lbs straw water retention bales that were rolling 200 feet down a bluff at about 35-40 mph and I had to turn them 90 degrees and send em another 100 feet down. It was 7 degrees out and the third one I caught came from a different direction and heard a snap......pop went my bicep:(
 
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Tommygunz

Tommygunz

Team PHP
Location
Wisconsin
Yea Tem the moto poop is a blast.....nearly impossible to get away from. I rode moto from the time I was 6 til 23. After 2 broken wrists/forearms caused by water in my gas on my freestyle bike over a 120 ft freestyle practice jump in my backyard it was time to call it quits:( 6 hours of reconstructive surgery and multiple surgeries after my right forearm has 11 screws and a titanium plate almost a foot long. They said breaking this arm again would be bad......so onto jetskis!!!! It was the hardest thing I ever did! I raced from 12 years old on and turned pro at 19,won all the local pro stuff and did arenacross,supercross and some outdoor nationals. Then found my love of freestyle doing the jumpoff contests at arenacross and started doin jump shows at fairs,monster truck events,etc. I had signed with Redbull in the winter of 2002-2003 to do shows so no work and all play!:) 3 weeks before my first show was when I broke my arms:( Very hard and depressing to finally make it to the top of where I wanted to be and have to let it go..... Thank god I found this sport and was blessed to live only 20 minutes away from Zack and was able to light the freestyle fire in him which then made PHP! Life goes on right;) Stick with em Tem! Can't lose one of the best hull builders in the industry ;)
 
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Berky

Berky

Location
Fl
That sounds brutal , the cold sure seams help injuries like that . Oh man that is insane on the MX stuff ! I'm just putting around for fun compared to national pro deal you were into. I have a buddy here in FL that is all pinned together from freestyle mx .
 
Tommygunz

Tommygunz

Team PHP
Location
Wisconsin
Quinc said:
Can you do any kind of forearm or grip training?
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http://www.shop42a.com/dp/B001T4MLK...e=asn&creative=395105&creativeASIN=B001T4MLKI
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Right now I'm not suppose to do much of anything with my left hand weight or strength wise just work on range of motion in my wrist. My doc says my range of motion in my elbow is already way better than he expected so the brace holds me back to not overextend.

Thank god I got into rc cars last winter with Randy so here's my driving skill honing machines....lol they are pretty fun!
 

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Tommygunz

Tommygunz

Team PHP
Location
Wisconsin
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Hoping for a speedy recovery on your bicep...need to get you out and riding ASAP! :)
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Thanks Joe! This year I will be just maintaining the pond for the PHP team to practice on and throwing on as much muscle as I can for 2015;) I plan on seeing you a lot this year at the pond!!!
 
jeckert

jeckert

Going backwards
Location
Chicago
SWEET!:)...as of now, signed a contract that will possibly be having me do a infomercial...was thinking your pond would be nice if all works out!;)
 
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