Yup...
...I had to endure much of the same action when I fell off my bike at age 18 and smashed my elbow into about 8 bits more than it should have been. I still have the metal in a jar somewhere after they took it out. There's a fair bit of it.

I now have a 16-inch scar from halfway down my forearm to halfway to my shoulder and a fairly knobbly elbow to boot, but I still have most of the movement, thanks to the pysio.

That said, the physio was the worst part of it - twice a week for 9 months this tiny and admittedly quite sweet young blond girl used to cause me extreme pain - I've never feared anyone's thumbs so much before or since. The high point of that action though was one day when they clamped my upper arm and she and another physio bod were hanging backwards off of my forearm to stretch my traumatised muscles to get more degrees of movement out of them. Ow.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Thu 19 Mar 2009, 10:45, Reply)