Although no where as near as significant as your injury, I sprained my wrist mountain biking. I put one of those wrist braces on that has adjustable pieces and a stiff composite or metal bar to prevent excessive wrist motion and just hit the water.

It got corroded and nasty but I was healed by that time and didn't care that much.

And I was crashing a lot then.

I wore a wrist guard for a while but my phisio told not use one, never sailed with the guard. I did find it difficult to cary board with weak wrist.

I won't be trying to sail until I am capable of putting the big board in the van, rigging, including using a downhaul whinch and doing dry land gybe practice without pain..
I don't want to go back too early , re injure myself and go back through this again..

You could use sports tape to provided support so wrist can not bend backwards, but not water proof. Used to get injured ankle and knee taped up for soccer, really worked good.

And I am now using Arnica gel more, instead of taking a pain killer. Had a sore shoulder from weightlifting and swimming, rubbed it with the gel and pain went away, pain came back next day but less, so repeated treatment and now pain free in shoulder.

Sue, go see a physiotherapist that specialises in hand / wrist / arm rehabilitation. They should be able to make you a custom cast from light thermo plastic and velcro that is molded to your arm / wrist and provides support and protection, but allows you to grip the boom. They will also give you exercises to improve flexibility and strength of your stiff joints and wasted muscles from wearing your plaster cast. You will find that uphauling and waterstarts the hardest things to do and will be very difficult untill you get strength back in your muscles.

I almost exclusively foiled during my rehab, because the small sails used are much less physical than slalom sails.

She said by the time I'm ready I shouldn't need anything..Looks like it's going to be a long slow road..

Yes - given your other logic, if you fix the wrist is one thing but you need to fix the whole arm just to be sure.

sboardcrazy said..
My partner used to be a massage therapist and he's been massaging the arm / shoulders etc. Much better last night although it's still hard to sleep.
Luckiy it's my left arm so I can still paint. I've been catching up on portrait commissions and I'm really enjoying that.

Sleeping with an injury can be a challenge. I ended up taking 2x10 mg melatonin 1-3/4 hr before bedtime and that really worked for me. Can also get a quick release version, or crush the regular ones, if you forget to take early. But I would set an alarm on my phone to remind me. And if the one dose does not get you through the night, they also make an extended release version now. So try the Arnica on your arm right before bedtime, and the melatonin, that should help.

Glad to hear you have something to do!, that will help a lot.