About 6 weeks ago I sustained a non-displaced fracture of the radial head, in other words a broken elbow. The doc said in cases like mine they don't splint or cast it so that the joint doesn't get stiff.
X-rays a couple of weeks ago shows the facture healing, and I seem to have most of the ROM back, though it's still kind of sore sometimes. Flexion seems good, but I think it's missing a little extension, which I understand is common ..
Anyway, he said I could lift weights and climb on toprope without things being too worrisome - apparently 'controlled loading' helps bones to heal. I'm also doing daily ROM ( flexion / extension).
This is gonna sound like whining, but what are people's long-term experiences with this kind of injury ? Did you end up losing some extension, and did this negatively impact your climbing or did you manage to work around it ?