Thanks guys!
First and foremost I want to say that you guys are awesome and that I probably wouldn't have gotten info as valuable as what you're giving me anywhere else and so I wanna show that I'm grateful.
Secondly I'd like to let you know that I'm not a rider or into any extreme sports, I stumbled upon this website while searching "elbow after radial head replacement" and found this helpful forum, it's kinda like a club for guys with new radial heads!
We could be the New Radial Heads! How many of you thought of the band name: "Radiohead" when the doctors were first telling you about what happened to you?? I did.
Ok so jokes aside, I'm gonna take all the advice.
I had a question though, when you say "Physio" you mean physiotherapy right? Is that different from physical therapy?
Did any of you lose any range of motion later on in recovery? I have almost full range right now, and I'm a little worried that somewhere down the line I might lose some of it somehow (maybe with the generation of scar tissue?)
And did any of you feel major pain when you shattered your radial head and dislocated the elbow?
Strangely enough I didn't feel that much pain when I hit the floor from a free fall off the 3rd story (and I hit asphalt), I picked my arm up and saw it all out of place, but I can't recall it hurting, probably because my adrenaline levels were jacked enough to make it indistinguishable.
I had my arm in a splint for 2 weeks before they operated on me, and then 1 more week in a splint and once they took it off, my arm had shrunk!
In 3 weeks I had lost a bunch of muscle that I had worked hard to get! At this point (4 months into recovery) my left arm is still a bit smaller than my right, how strange is that?
In only 3 weeks of non-usage your body loses muscle so easily!
Did this happen to anyone else? And what other injuries did you suffer from along with the radial head fracture or shattering?