Quote Originally Posted by Nanci
I always wonder if you could ride in aero bars with a broken wrist...That would be my plan. There's absolutely no weight on it.

Nanci
Sorry to hear of your accident. It's a really tough to be injured in the middle of the season.

I thought of trying to ride in a cast too when I broke my wrist a few years ago but the way my hand was casted I couldn't reach my brakes or shifters.

I was in a cast for 6 weeks, but it took another six weeks to gain the strength in my hand to shift and brake. My Ortho did not send me to pt but I had an athletic trainer/pt at my gym that helped me. By that time it was fall and by the next spring my strength was back and I rode without problems.

I took spinning classes, but I didn't do any of the standing, just rested my arms on the handlebars. In 03 I messed up my elbow. I put aero bars on my trainer bike and spent the rest of the summer riding it. That worked very nicely.

Do ice a lot even in a cast. For me, the icing kept the itchiness down.

I don't know if hardware speeds the healing. I had ACL surgery 5 mos ago tomorrow and I still get tingling and pain in the area where they drilled to insert the pins that the ACL is attached to. The pins are supposed to be asorbed into the bone but it takes a good year for the ACL to heal.

The good news is I've not had a problem with my wrist. After that 6 weeks of getting my strength back it was as good as new.