Tech: musician's advice on broken hands

Subject: RE: Tech: musician's advice on broken hands
From: InOBU
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 09:34 AM

right you are Garg... if i went with the first advice, i'd have lost a year of playing, and some movement, now i have a shot at things, hell i was born ugly, but playing means a lot... cheers larry

Subject: RE: Tech: musician's advice on broken hands
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 08:56 PM

Each break is unique - you did not give specifics.

Four years ago I suffered a compound fracture to my right hand. Literally, with the hospitol gown flowing behind me...I fled the emergency service I was first offered.

Make phone calls.....ask questions!!! Get references! Talk to nurses and talk to physicians!

Your hand will probably NEVER feel right again.

I went to the surgeon the surgeons use when they injure their hands.

My hand is not "right" ... it is ugly and indented and scarred ....with an extra single key stretch in the range of movement....it aches, hurts and throbs some nights....BUT I CAN PLAY THE PIANO!!!! and that is all I requested from the surgeon.

No surgery was necessary. But the first hospitol was going to IV, sedate, and hold me on ice three days until they could bring in their expert for pinning. In time, bones will re-align themselves.

Make your own best call based on the facts....and then live with it.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Tech: musician's advice on broken hands
From: InOBU
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 08:25 PM

will do thanks l.o.

Subject: RE: Tech: musician's advice on broken hands
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 03:58 PM

Be sure to consult Don Meixner, Larry.

~S~

Subject: Tech: musician's advice on broken hands
From: InOBU
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 07:40 AM

hi folks... really important. the er docs and the sergions at the local hospital were telling me to get pins put in to straighten the broken bones in my hand... i went to a hand specialist in a hospital which was more specialized. the doc asked me if it was more important for the hand to look like it used to or play misic. i told him i was born ugly, so i am used to that, but it took effort to learn to play so i chose function. he told me that with pins sometimes he had to do follow up sergery to reduce internal scaring so... if the doctors tell you hand sergury is the best way to restore a musicians hand... get a second oppinion - it may be depends on tests a good hand doc will do... hope you never need to decide... but don't jump at the pins -
good luck
larry