Yard work after carpal tunnel surgery?

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Hi :)

I am due to have carpal tunnel release surgery at the end of the month, and was just wondering if anyone has had this and how long it took them to return to being able to do normal yard jobs afterwards?

I work as a groom/rider as well as having my own horse, and just wondering what is a realistic time frame for recovery bearing in mind I do a lot of lifting, shovelling, sweeping, riding/lungeing..

If anyone could share their experience I'd love to hear :)

Thanks!
 
RonnieHowe said:
Hi :)

I am due to have carpal tunnel release surgery at the end of the month, and was just wondering if anyone has had this and how long it took them to return to being able to do normal yard jobs afterwards?

I work as a groom/rider as well as having my own horse, and just wondering what is a realistic time frame for recovery bearing in mind I do a lot of lifting, shovelling, sweeping, riding/lungeing..

If anyone could share their experience I'd love to hear :)

Thanks!
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I will be interested in your replies. I was diagnosed with carpal tunnel and doctor adviced steroid injection. I wasn't very keen on this idea and there seemed to be no gaurentee it would work. After that surgery. I would have been very stuck with not being able to do the yard work you describe. I know several people in the same position who haven/t had surgery due to having to go back to physcial jobs. I had it in both wrists so it would have been 2 lots of lay offs.

After researching carpal tunnel I spoke to my chiropractor. He advised that the problem would be coming from higher up and to work on that before considering surgery
He did work on my neck, shoulders (and the rest of me). It hasn't cured the problem completely, it still comes back for short periods however it is so much better I can pretty easily live with it.

I will be interested in people's comments on the success rate of the operation. I was not convinced on that.
 
I had the operation on both wrists (not at the same time, I wanted to be able to wirpe me own ******!) years back. It really worked for me, I can still remember the pain before the op. The operation was a great success and a complete cure for me.


As for yard work, I think I went back to it after about a week, although did a lot one handed for a while.

Good luck, it's an enormous relief.
 
I had the op done 5 weeks ago. Completely back to normal after about three weeks.

Before that I was one handed for the first week then I could start to do a bit more. Stitches were in for two weeks and you have to keep it clean and dry so it limits a few things.

The hardest job on the yard was filling haynets as it really needs two hands and I just didnt have the strength to hold them while stuffing with my good hand.

Fantastic op though and has relieved 90% of the problem.
 
Also had the op at start of January. I was back to normal after about 3 weeks. As was on my right wrist and i am right handed. Although my stitches didn't fall out for 4 1/2 weeks even tho they were supposed to take about 10 days. I just put a plaster over them so I didn't catch them on anything lol
 
Thankyou for the replies :) Good to have an idea of recovery time because the nurse at my pre op appointment seemed pretty clueless!

I will update this thread after my surgery in a week or so and let you know how I've managed.

Can I also ask for those who've had it - is it more skin soreness that prevents you from using it afterwards or lack of grip/ability to weight bear?

Thanks again for replies I appreciate it :)
 
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