Have you ever, woke up one day, go through your normal routine , on a beautiful Saturday morning ,with your mind focused on your goals, but then, something happened, thinking everything is going to be alright, only to be told that that goal, can never be achieved, and feeling as though, that the only reason you would go to the gym every single time and fight through every single obstacle, the pain, the faces of society looking at you one kind, now, has become, meaningless ? And especially only to know that , if they just listened to you, whatever which caused it, could've been prevented, and cured, but now, the situation is barely the same. The worse is, after trying hard to deal with one problem, the next thing you know, you've got a much bigger problem, which will largely contribute into directing you to your very own downfall, of achieving your goal, along with everything you've ever wanted to do, on the line.
Well, if you've read this far, you've probably felt this pain before, you're probably trying to cheer me up, and you probably don't get a single thing that I have just typed out.
But anyways, to those who do or don't feel my pain, to cut the long story short, this is the news I received from the doctor.
2-3months of resting, and If i want it to recover( may not), no gym, or even basketball, at all. Low intense sports , only swimming and stationary cyling with back support, can be done, and up to a certain extend. Lots of stretching and icing to do, physiotherapy is recommended if I can afford to.
Now, thats not the main problem here.
The main problem is, my right elbow.
It seems, one small part of the bone or whatever, has came off. Comapred to my left side, you can see something missing in my right elbow. My right elbow, was lose, whereas my left elbow, was firm and strong, something I just saw with my own eyes.
And well, I could ice it, put medicine, do stretches and all, but one particular sentence, stunted me. " I'm afraid you are going to retire early as a basketball player".
no offense but i lol'd at the comment in bold, a bone chip/avulsion fracture in the elbow causing you to retire in basketball? you're 16, it'll heal.. it'll heal through rest and/or physio/surgical methods.
this really sucks though.. my former boss at memorial sportscenter had something similar, tore a piece of bone out of his elbow, kept playing baseball through it, didn't even know he had torn bone out.. eventually he was 100% back to normal after rest AND surgery, but pro baseball player's get that special treatment, hence the surgery..
i avulsion fractured a piece of bone out of my thumb, no surgery, healed 100% by 6 months, just had it in a splint for 1 month then got rid of the splint koz im a workaholic, worked through it, and eventually it disappeared.. now i know elbow isn't thumb, but same type of injury, it healed.. i was around 16-17 at the time.
I went into total emptiness , for a very brief moment. Having been training my ass off, for the last couple of years, the effort, has all been wasted.
it hasn't been wasted, unfortunately, in athletics, shit like this happens.. it just does, no way around it.. the work you put in will stay with you for the rest of your life.. when you come back from rest/whatever, you'll gain that much quicker.. you'll stay in better shape 'that much longer' while you rest, etc.
It could've been prevented, if I went to see him right after the time I got the injury. TOo bad, I now only know, those normal doctors have only 2weeks of training in this sports stuff. What shocked me was, if I went to see him after the injury, my future would be a much brighter one. NOw, my options are, surgury, some injection to make the elbow stronger as its loose, physiotherapy to see what else can be done, or just give up.
give up = lame, but it is an option.. if you are obsessed with athletics/basketball, "giving up" doesn't exist.. if you're not, then fine, just relax get some girlfriendS hangout chill relax etc.
i havn't had insurance since h.s, so needless to say, i DONT goto the doctor., i've had TONS of injuries since then.. broken fingers, dislocated toe in half, multiple tendon tears (partial, hamstring, bicep, peroneal), debilitating back injury (disc), whooping cough (could have died, didn't even get meds, took me 2 months to recover from it), tendonitis everywhere, lump in my nuts, foot injuries, ankle injuries etc.. if you want to bounce back, you will, that's just the POWER of the human body to adapt and continue surviving.
so stay focused if you're serious.. there's plenty of lower body things you could do regardless of what the doctor says, all body weight.. glute bridges, calf raises, hamstring isos, walking lunges, etc.
And for my back, I think I have been having this problem for a very long time. My left side of the lower back is bigger, and my back, is really really stiff. Its no wonder after sitting down for a while well cause me some uncomfortable feeling in my back, liek as though it was stiff . I guess I was right. It's probably how I came across the pain at the tailbone. Due to the stiffness of my back, I've been doing all the exercises in a not so good form.
that's why it would have been good if you put up videos of your lifts...... form is very important..
plenty of people have muscular imbalances, look how you're sitting in school etc, that has alot to do with it.. sitting in school all day with bad posture can wreak havoc on your body.
So, I'm glad finally everything has been clarified .
The minute this news was delivered to me, I was devastated. I tried so hard to hold my tears, and just stop thinking about the situation. I felt like as though , my life, just ended there by hearing those few words.
dude relax..
But then, after crying for a short while, I remembered, that just that other day, I was motivating my friend ,telling him how to never give up, don't listen to what others tell you, and to set your goals as high as you can so that you can achieve the most in life. Thats something I do. So I just wanted to share the love. lol, that was gay, but anyways. Knowing that I've said those words to him, knowing that I told him I'm doing the same, it would just make me a hypocritic .
I looked up, and straight away, decided that , no, I am not going to be a hypocritic.
Partly why I wanted to be a professional NBA player ( or at least as far as my potential limits me to), was to be a motivation to people, especially short asians like me, who are surrounded by parents who do not have faith in them and neither support them in what they love doing most.
So, if I'm going to give up right here, I've lost part of my dream. How can I motivate people if I, myself, quit?
So anwyays, not sure if anyone has read this far. But anyways, I seek to everyone's help here for my comeback to basketball. ANd just to let you all know, I WILL NEVER give up. I'm not going to let some, loose elbow, take away my dream. If surgery is required, and is what you all would recommend if thats what would make my dream to be a possible one to achieve, the nI'll do it. Hopefulyl It's not injection though as I heard it hurts like fuck.
ok good, glad you've got your head back on straight abotu this
Well, feels good to let it all out.
And for the squats thing, I guess I'll be saving that knowledge for alter use.
Right now, I need a program. DOc said to take it easy. But I wanan know what you all say.
Even if its just swimming twice or thrice a week, I'll gladly do it. And for the stationary cycling thing, Not suppose to overexert, but I wanna hear what you all think.
Of course, I gotta rest and listen to the doctor. BUt I'm sure, after months of resting, I just cant stay at home and do nothing.
WEll, my back stiffenss must be the cause to the tailbone pain in leg press too. OH damn it but anyways,
chao out side, n looking to hear from your opinions, lance and andrew, soon.
well, i would start off by listening to your doc for a week or so, about the back stiffness, but then you could incorporate some of the exercises i mentioned above, 3-4x/week.. as for swimming, that can't be good for your elbow injury, i'd listen 100% to doctors about the elbow, that's more serious.. back stiffness is minor compared to bone chipping.
rest for 1 week, then start incorporating some bodyweight lower..
how did the elbow injury happen again? you remember?
peace
