Skiing after broken wrist????????

Help! Huge dilemma........my 13 year old son broke his wrist 2 weeks ago, he is due out of plaster 2 days before our family skiing holiday..........he is a good skier.......do we go, put him in an aircast and risk it (Iam aware that insurance will probably be invalid) or abort mission............any physios with helpful info??? For example how much protection do aircasts actually give???

Any help much appreciated......!!

Surely if the hospital take off his cast that must mean the bone has healed. If it was one of my sons they'd strap it up and get on with the skiing. I'm not a doctor though so what do I know. :D

Best to take advice from the hospital, I think.

I would advise you to speak to the medics who are dealing with your son.

They may say it is perfectly Ok to Ski and they may advise on the type of brace/support he should wear. But you should find out the worst case scenario before making the choice,

I can guarantee you he will be up for skiing though :)

Also if it is of any help, my brother broke his leg wakeboarding. He had to have a plate fitted just below the knee. He cancelled a waterski trip to Florida just after the cast came off, and prompty tripped over a slipper at home and broke the top part of the leg :cry: He would have been far happier waterskiing I can tell you.

You don't say when your holiday is? Is it a straightforward fracture? If you are talking of him skiing with any kind of cast on (Air or POP) your insurance will be invalid. Saying that my son fractured his on holiday learning to snowboard and he just went back to skiing!

Kids bones heal quick don't they???
A tough one that as aborting is probably not really an option as your insurance is unlikely to pay out for the whole family just because one injured.
I am sure they expect you all to go without him and just pay out on him!!! Scandalous.
But i could be wrong.

If he is a good skiier i am sure all he has to worry about is falling. If it were me i would wrap it up tight and go for it......but i am no doc.

Snapzzz wrote:Kids bones heal quick don't they???
A tough one that as aborting is probably not really an option as your insurance is unlikely to pay out for the whole family just because one injured.
I am sure they expect you all to go without him and just pay out on him!!! Scandalous.
But i could be wrong.

I would think the insurers would pay for all of you, seeing as he's only 13 years old.

I broke my shoulder 2 weeks before our first family ski-ing holiday, when my kids were young, and I told my insurers about it but said we hadn't made up our minds yet what we were going to do - cancel the holiday or all go but only the kids ski. They said they were quite happy to pay cancellation for all of us.

In the end, we did go and I walked about with my arm in a sling. It was very hard on me though, and I was very tempted to try ski-ing. I didn't however, because I'd looked up my fracture on the internet, before we left, and seen that if it got worse it might have to be pinned and all sorts of dreadful things.

Are you planning on ski-ing in Feb half-term? I think that makes a difference, because if you want to ski in school holidays you will have to wait until Easter if you cancel.

I think if it was me I'd cancel now and re-book for Easter (if possible). There could be complications with the break (although I hope not) and they might not take the cast off, or they might say he shouldn't ski on it.

I guess it's a matter of listening to the doctors and then having a family meeting about it, seeing as you are all affected by the decision.

Best of luck with deciding what to do :D, and I hope the wrist heals without any problems.

Ally

Playing devils advocate here, but surely there is nothing to actually stop him (and therefore rest of family) from going to the resort, so I doubt the insurance would pay for a whole cancellation. They may contribute towards his "loss of skiing" and possibly to the cost of a child minder to look after him while you ski.

Agree with seeking advice from doctor, they may not say what you want to hear, but best to ask.

Last year my daughter sprained her wrist (not the same as a break I know) 2 or 3 days before we went and I was also in a dilemma.
We bought a really good wrist support and although poling was a bit painful for the 1st day or so she was fine and forgot about it pretty quickly. So it clearly was not as bad a sprain as we initially thought.

I broke my wrist a few years ago and could not believe how strong my wrist was when the plaster was taken off. Kids mend quickly - don't they?

It might be more of a problem if he were a beginner, but hopefully he'll be aware of his capabilities