It has been almost 6 months and my son is finally starting his return. He’s attending two full practices per week. He’s able to practice high bar and rings fairly normally. He’s still hands-free on vault and floor. He can’t tolerate planche positions yet, which includes swing handstands of pbars, so he’s limited to pit swings and under bar swings. He’s not expected to begin pommel again for many months.
Overall, we expect it to take a year for him to get back to where he was when he got hurt. I’m just praying he can avoid the injury spiral that is so common at our gym. We’ve had lots of boys go out for extended periods due to overuse injuries and as soon as they get back, they injure something else. It’s just one injury after another until they quit. I’m trying to do what I can to help my son avoid that fate but he’s not diligent about doing his PT. We’ll see how this next year goes.
