Ultracycling

Not normally one to spam. But it was an incredible race I'd recommend to anyone.

http://jamesmarkhayden.uk/italy-divide/italy-divide-report/

What are you selling?

Pain and nightmares.

At reasonable rates?

Dibs.

Free.
Just have to push yourself beyond the acceptable limits.

Anyone got any good tips for nerve and tendon repair? Obviously eat healthy, don't drink and RICE shit out of it but has anyone had success with shockwave therapy or magic Harley Street potions?

If you're still in the Netherlands: The Ekoplaza has a choice selection of exquisite organic beers which will get you back to your old self in no time.

Thanks but I got back to London town last night. I did stop off at a few Belgian bars and Malt Attacks on the way home but I'm going sober for a while to help recovery. I've only got 2 weeks before 4x600k weekends.

Osteopath. Mine is brilliant and took my hand from no feeling to feeling in a 1h session. ..they're not all as good. This one is in chelmsford.

Horse placenta treatment was a thing in football a little while back: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/champions-league-final-2014-atletico-madrid-send-striker-diego-costa-for-horse-placenta-treatment-to-9412232.html

Nerve repair just takes time. Took me a couple of months after indypac, but full recovery.

The nerves re-grow at a couple of mm per week. As long as the damage is less than x cm of nerve they will re grow. If it is more they won't.

I didn't ride a bike hardly at all when mine was regrowing, didn't want to risk not being able to do things like write, or hold water in my hands, again!

How badly do you want to do the 600s?

Thread on yacf. Got helpful input from a hand surgeon.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=102871.0

I thought they were a bit voodoo, no?

Anyone got recommendations for someone in central or west?

Yummy

I have two weeks. I'm not so much worried about the nerves, I've had that before, but the tendon damage actually stops me gripping the bars and stuff properly. I couldn't get things out of my right jersey pocket or hold things.
I wanted a Hyper. I've entered them, so I'll probably ride them but I don't have plans to ride PBP now so it won't be the end of the world if I ditch them. Still, the quicker I can recover the better I'll be for TransPyr too, with or without the 600s.

Hmm - don't know much about tendons beyond the general stuff like stretching, rest, ice. I get sore shins and wrists sometimes but never to that extent. @DarrenFranks would likely have views on it from his achilles
Is this from the arm warmer?

I thought they were a bit voodoo, no?

Anyone got recommendations for someone in central or west?

I'm seeing a guy at the moment - Alex Fugallo in Parsons Green. He was recommended to me by an orthopedic surgeon. He cycles and is also an ex-international runner.

I reckon so. A very similar thing fucked my first TABR - that was calf guards and socks compressing the tendon on the front of my ankle. This is much the same but on the wrist, presumably because of tighter arm warmers that I didn't take off and the constant movement from aerobars to hoods/drops to deal with NL bike path junctions.

Dont care if so, helps me.

Interesting post.

This is me brining my left hand together (right had is fine)

It had just recovered before Italy. But Italy screwed it up again.

That was what my hand looked like, the last two fingers wouldn't move from side to side.

No idea why it occurs to my left and not right.

Its quite annoying.

It is.
Mine was left-only as well, due to the way I was gripping the bars. Crosswind from the right so left was trying to push them back straight. Right not doing so much.
I'm left handed so my handwriting was unreadable for a couple of months afterwards. It's still much worse than it used to be but, nowadays, it's only me that needs to be able to read it nowadays!

Mine's different. Mine is thumb and forefinger and movement of wrist up/down and forward/back.

What do their treatments involve? Because from what I've read I shouldn't be massage this, I need to keep it still until the inflammation goes down. Then there's some flossing stuff I can do to align the tendon fibres.