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X-Rays said lumbar fracture(s), CT came back clean. Just bruises and muscle spasms. Cyclobenzaprine, welcome back my old friend!
Maybe I'll save the story for the next time someone says crits are dangerous, cat 1s are safer, or that every accident is avoidable. I can't decide.
Really really relieved nothing is broken! I'll live with a week or two of pain any day.
Maybe I'll save the story for the next time someone says crits are dangerous, cat 1s are safer, or that every accident is avoidable. I can't decide.
Really really relieved nothing is broken! I'll live with a week or two of pain any day.
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X-Rays said lumbar fracture(s), CT came back clean. Just bruises and muscle spasms. Cyclobenzaprine, welcome back my old friend!
Maybe I'll save the story for the next time someone says crits are dangerous, cat 1s are safer, or that every accident is avoidable. I can't decide.
Really really relieved nothing is broken! I'll live with a week or two of pain any day.
Maybe I'll save the story for the next time someone says crits are dangerous, cat 1s are safer, or that every accident is avoidable. I can't decide.
Really really relieved nothing is broken! I'll live with a week or two of pain any day.
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I did an awesome ride with a group of friends yesterday. We did the AZ mining country loop. 90 miles and almost 8000 feet climbing, most of the ascent is in 3 climbs. The last climb ends with 2 miles at 9% ouch! The scenery was beautiful. It was a great day on the bike, way better than shopping!
https://www.strava.com/activities/440442242
https://www.strava.com/activities/440442242
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I did a race in Superior back in like the winter of '08-'09, it was an out and back on 177. I remember that climb being very very steep at the top and super long!
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Depending on how hard it rains today I'm either doing 3hrs today and 3 tomorrow, or like 1.5 on the trainer and 4.5 tomorrow. I'm stubborn so I'll probably ride 3hrs outdoors and then complain about a head cold in a week.
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The time between the x-ray results and the ct results was like 2.5 hours of being super depressed. Having the scan come back with better news is such a relief I'm going to be optimistic that maybe I'm just a wimp and the pain exacerbated by the fear.
The cyclobenzaprine seemed to really help.
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Felt like a big deal for a few hours, will hopefully be just a funny story in the past in a few weeks.
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However, on a technical level, vertebra are very complicated bones shape-wise. With standard x-rays, it's very hard to tell sometimes if a fracture is present, there is superimposition of various components of the bone. It's pretty easy to be fooled and worried that there's a fracture when there isnt.
A CT is a cross sectional xray, it was developed in large part to eliminate the issue of superimposition of bony structures for complex bones like vertebrae.
If there is a concern about a spinal fracture, having a CT is not a measure of the severity of the injury. A more severe injury would be accompanied by neurologic deficit, and we can be pretty sure @yugduf would not have been released from the hospital if there was any neurologic deficit.
In this case, it sounds like the CT was done not because of the severity of the injury but because of the anatomic properties of the structure that was being investigated- ie the vertebrae.
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Thanks. I'm not actually going to take pain killers and train and extend this. I'm optimistic that the back spasms will ease up. At the top of the glutes where they connect to whichever bone there hurts the most. That will maybe be the limiter. Time will tell. Not going to worry about it for a bit. I'm supposed to have a followup in a week or 10 days.
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Thanks. I'm not actually going to take pain killers and train and extend this. I'm optimistic that the back spasms will ease up. At the top of the glutes where they connect to whichever bone there hurts the most. That will maybe be the limiter. Time will tell. Not going to worry about it for a bit. I'm supposed to have a followup in a week or 10 days.
They can see your bones perfectly on a CT so you can be pretty assured the bones are fine. There's a lot of soft tissue connecting structures too, though, and those are not visualized well on CT. So discs, ligaments, tendons etc you do not know the state of from a CT. So definitely don't take the negative CT to mean everything is fine. It's just the major scary bony things are ruled out. They also by the way can very easily see your spinal canal (where your spinal cord sits) and your foramina (where your nerve roots exit the spinal canal), so you can also be pretty assured that you have no impingement on any structures of the nervous system.
In short, you're probably fine to ride after a week (or thereabouts) and listen to your body. But what do I know? Just a veterinarian.
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Fudgy any chance you have the images? Enjoy your flexeril, those little yellow houses sure helped with my back pain when I smashed it up.
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I would say that if there is a concern about spinal fracture the injury is severe until proven otherwise. In this case they had sufficient concern to justify the risks of a CT scan. It's not like they CT everyone with back pain out of anatomic curiosity. But what do I know, I'm just a janitor.
Fudgy any chance you have the images? Enjoy your flexeril, those little yellow houses sure helped with my back pain when I smashed it up.
Fudgy any chance you have the images? Enjoy your flexeril, those little yellow houses sure helped with my back pain when I smashed it up.
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Ex feels bad. Paid to take Fudgy out but failed. Have to provide partial refund to the guy that contracted for the hit. Had plans for money.
I didn't even touch the pavement.
Fudgy did a great job of protecting both bikes with his body. Ex does feel bad, been longer than I can remember the last time I screwed up and took someone down. After hitting the pole the other day I'm wondering if I shouldn't take up pickleball and send in that AARP membership.
I didn't even touch the pavement.
Fudgy did a great job of protecting both bikes with his body. Ex does feel bad, been longer than I can remember the last time I screwed up and took someone down. After hitting the pole the other day I'm wondering if I shouldn't take up pickleball and send in that AARP membership.
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it's all good. I'm like 75% better today which puts me on pace for 94% tomorrow. Better than @mattm soon enough!
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heal up fudgy.
it's gross out here today. racing cross tomorrow so i was supposed to do openers. got on the rollers and found some motivation so actually ended up doing a 2*20' set. really have no desire to race anymore though. regretting pre registering for this weekend and next.
need to invest in a better set of rollers for this winter. on the hunt for some used inside ride ones.
it's gross out here today. racing cross tomorrow so i was supposed to do openers. got on the rollers and found some motivation so actually ended up doing a 2*20' set. really have no desire to race anymore though. regretting pre registering for this weekend and next.
need to invest in a better set of rollers for this winter. on the hunt for some used inside ride ones.
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Feel better @Ygduf. Sounds like you're already mostly back.
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heading out for 4hrs of z2 lazness, mtb tomorrow.
Had a killer ride on Turkey Day, 2.5hrs. Spend the first half around ~190w AP, then really unleashed the hounds over the second half, and felt fantastic. I expected to be blown going up Balboa (~4min steep climb near the end of my ride), but my legs still wanted to hammer aerobic. Nice!
Had a killer ride on Turkey Day, 2.5hrs. Spend the first half around ~190w AP, then really unleashed the hounds over the second half, and felt fantastic. I expected to be blown going up Balboa (~4min steep climb near the end of my ride), but my legs still wanted to hammer aerobic. Nice!
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