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    Sara

    Is it safe to bowl injured?

    Monday, February 4, 2008, 08:48 PM [General]

    I like to think I have a pretty high pain tolerance. I had my only child via c-section, I got bit by both of my dogs at the same time while i was pregnant resulting in 13 stitches and I had both of my knees operated on at the same time. However after having my surgeries on my wrists I thought it was going to be sooth sailing and I'd be back on me feet in no time. WRONG! My right hand has gotten so bad that to make a fist hurts, to move my fingers sends pain all the way up my arm and to bowl puts my hand through the wringer. I can't however stop myself from bowling. I remember my doctor telling me to do everything like I did before cause i can't hurt anything and thats what I've done. I also have been bowling really good since my right hand operation. My average has climbed 4 pins from 169 to 173 in a month and I've had 4 600 series and i think 10 plus 200 games which I think is phenominal this soon afterwards. My problem is I have to heavily wrap both hands, I wear a glove for the extra traction and I have resulted to taking pain meds right off the bat to counter act the pain and stiffness. It's not all bad though cause after the first game I loosen up to the point where I can bowl (or the pain meds kick in). I finally broke down and called my hand surgeon today to get some anti-inflammatories to try to kick this thing out of me. So the crossroad I am at is this. Do I take a few weeks off to try to heal myself not knowing if it's going to work or do I rough it out for the next 10 weeks and rest over the summer since I technically can't hurt anything and I do seem to be bowling well. I would appreciate EVERYONES feedback in this as I am torn about the whole situation! Thanks for reading!

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    If the fun you're having bowling outweighs the pain, and your doc says you can't damage it, then go for it!

    If it were me, I might consider doing one week on, one week off, just to give it some time to rest in between 'workouts'.

    Only you know how much you can tolerate though!

    Scott
    February 05, 2008
    05:24 AM CST

    Dang Girl, i was just reading your blog and it appears your pain tollerance is even higher then mine,lol. When i was in league one yr not long ago, i was bowling fairly well, but i was in bad pain with my sliding knee. I shot 720 something that night. Couldn't put any weight on it the next day. Come to find out i tore the acl and mcl. Yet i only missed 1 week. Keep up the good work.

    Jeff

    Jeff
    November 07, 2008
    12:34 AM CST