Originally Posted by
Fatman
When you start PT tell the therapist that one of your objectives for the PT, besides gettin your wrist healthy again, is being able to fly cast, heck take the bottom half of your rod with you and show them the kind of range of motion needed for it. A good one will build excercises into your program to help you get there.
Fatman gives great advice on this. I didn't break my wrist, but I broke my casting arm at the shoulder and required surgery. I explained to my physical therapist that fly fishing was my main hobby and he worked with me. Several years later a herniated disk in my neck sent me back to PT and I explained that I shoot archery. Again, they set me up with a routine that had me back at it after several weeks. If your therapist tells you to forget fly casting, see another one.
Once you find a good therapist, this is the critical part...do everything he tells you, and do not do things until he tells you to try them. The physical therapist is only as good as a patient's ability to listen to and follow instructions.
Of course, this could be an opportunity to learn to cast left-handed until you can go back to right-handed. You could come out a more skilled caster than before!
A right emblem it may be, of the uncertain things of this world; that when men have sold them selves for them, they vanish into smoke. ~ William Bradford
I finally realized that Life is a metaphor for Fly Fishing.