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I meant not small for a gymnast.

Thanks everyone. She is on the smaller side -but not the smallest by a long shot (she’s 10 and not quite tall enought to ride at six flags but is close - she is small compared to her class but small for a gymnast IMO) and I guess she has a good grip although we will see as she gets back from...

My DD is L5 if she hadn’t broken her arm. Anyway all the L4 and L5 girls have grips and she is the only one not in grips. And she’s okay with it. And I’m okay with it - and hadn’t given it much thought. But we were talking the other day and she said something about peels and that’s why she...

How do you find such a person? Everyone we’ve been too has experience treating the girls on our team (and other gymnasts). Of course it isn’t all they see. What should I ask? Or be looking for specifically? My daughter loves her doc and her PT and I’m not a switcher by nature because I...

Fair point. I’m not happy with her progress - but I’m not sure if that’s on me just being impatient or on her progress. That’s what I’m trying to decide. In hindsight i wish we had started PT earlier but I can’t change that and that timeline may have been due to her infection, and her...

Thanks! When Coach p made that recommendation we hadn’t started PT yet - we were just cleared 2 weeks ago. So I’m not sure why we need to change. Sorry to be dense. I’m just not following. We are with a PT clinic that has rehabbed several of the gymnasts in our gym. He plans to get more...

That’s great finding the knowledgeable folks. Our PT has seen a few of the girls from our gym but everything right now is still generalized range of motion. It may be that our surgeon delayed PT because of her spitting stitches and infection there- not sure. And yes they do their own...

How did you find a new surgeon? We have several pedi ortho surgeons in the area and I made appts with three of them that i know had worked on gymnsasts and they all said the same thing. I know everyone here talks about surgeons that have you in PT right away but i don’t know how I would find...

Oh my gosh. My brain would explode if it was a year of surgeries, PT and what not. I am not a patient soul. I’m really good within expectations, but when things take longer than expected I start climbing the walls. We are supposed to have 3 weeks at 3x a week and then 3 weeks at 2x a week...

Thanks! In my head I know next year this time we will be looking back on this and saying remember when. But right now it looks like about 16 weeks off. Which is so much more than they estimated at the beginning. And yes her abs and legs are getting quite the workout. She does conditioning...

Oh - wow. We haven’t missed any practices except between the break and the surgery and hard cast - a little over a week. We have not been doing any big jumps on floor or beam. She does her turns on the low beam - but not the high beam. I suggested she could do her punch front but she and...

Well we are 12 weeks out from the break and still not getting that arm straight. She started PT 3x a week 2.5 weeks ago and it is better, she is at about 10* - 120* instead of -10* to 150* It feels like it will never get better. The doc prescribed 6 weeks total of PT - so another 4 to go. Our...

Ha ha! I bet it did. Our doc keeps saying she might not need PT - so he is coming at this from a totally different approach. We have a PT appt schedule the week after just in case.

Thanks everyone. She has full wrist and shoulder movement and is getting sports massages on everywhere but the elbow and swimming 1-2 times a week so I think we are good there. We physically saw three pedi-ortho doctors and consulted online with 3 others sending her x-rays to England and...

I should add we saw three different surgeons and they all said (even the one that didn’t recommend surgery) that it would be about a month post-op before PT. All three specialize in pedi sports and gymnastics. They wanted a month of compete arm rest following surgery. I was hoping we would...

Well the surgeon hasn’t cleared her for PT. I’ll lean in hard when I see him next time, but I don’t think I’ll sway him if he’s not already there. He’s pretty intractable. He saw her 1 and 2 weeks after cast removal because of the infection and she had gained 10* in her range of motion each...

Oh I didn’t answer - medial epicpndyle fracture and dislocation. The dicolation was set in the ER and the fracture required surgery. She has a 1.5” screw and washer holding her arm together through the growth plate and then another surgery to get it out will happen this summer.

That’s awesome. We did have surgery so we have not been cleared for PT yet.....grrrrr. She had surgery about 7.5 weeks ago and overall her arm was splinted or cast for a total of 5 weeks. She is 3.5 weeks post cast removal and is very slow going on the range of motion. She has maybe 15-20*...

Those of you that have been there -what was the recovery like from an elbow area injury that resulted in 4-5 weeks of imobiliazation? DD has surgery, and is recently out of her cast. She is making good strides lengenthening her arm to straight. Still a long way to go, but progesss for sure in...

Help her find her voice with her teammates and her coach now that she can articulate specifics. And my daughter didn’t want to see my face during her events - I had to either have the phone or my program in front of me. But I’m also not allowed to move- because she needs to know where I am. ‍♀️