BRACE for impact
I have had two surgeries because of my kienböck's disease. I don't recall these surgery names, but essentially my radius bone in my arm was shortened to relieve unbearable pressure it was putting on my lunate bone. Then, about a year and almost 4 months later I had my lunate bone - with the rest of that tier of bones - removed. Dying bone pain is now gone; yay! However, pain from having a bone sawed into pieces does still come, too; boo!!! For anyone with arthritis, you will know what this feels like on certain weather days or holding something cold for far too long. It just starts to hurt and when it does, it stinks! It is like kienböck's pain but less severe for those who don't know what it's like to have this pain. To paint a picture: have you ever broken an arm and been casted for a month at minimum? On cold weather days, for some people, you feel almost the same pain as when it was healing. But, being silly, little me... I did yard work without a brace on. I know there is such thing as rebuilding muscle with kienböck's after it is "cured", but I am used to babying my arm so much I can actually do many things one handed. However, I will give everyone with kienbock's a warning: NEVER EVER do strenuous activity without a brace. Pushing 3 days later my arm still hurts! All because I was a moron and lifted some dead tree branches that didn't with more than 5lbs! If I wore my brace that would've been cut to 1 day. Now I can't even hold this phone up to post!