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Fritz
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 Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:32 am Post subject: Getting your balance back after a head injury |
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Just been asked for some help from a friend who wants to start riding her bike again after suffering a brain injury.
The problem is that she has great difficulty balancing on a bike and would like to know if there is something that doesn't cost too much that she could use to regain her balance and confidence and start riding properly again. I suggested a trike or some sort of stabilizers but I am not sure what exists on the market. Obviously a trike is out of her budget but can you get stabilizers for normal commuting or road bikes? |
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cyclistm
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I have no relevant experience or qualifications in this, but would suggest not getting back on a bike until the balance comes back, it is asking for trouble.
Turbo if she is really keen? |
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mattr
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one of them balance boards if its just a retraining thing
trike if its long term/permanent |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:02 am Post subject: Re: Getting your balance back after a head injury |
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| Fritz wrote: |
Just been asked for some help from a friend who wants to start riding her bike again after suffering a brain injury.
The problem is that she has great difficulty balancing on a bike and would like to know if there is something that doesn't cost too much that she could use to regain her balance and confidence and start riding properly again. I suggested a trike or some sort of stabilizers but I am not sure what exists on the market. Obviously a trike is out of her budget but can you get stabilizers for normal commuting or road bikes? |
I bet a bike shop would be willing to help - I'm sure moulton size wheels could be fitted to brackets - a la stabalisers - it sounds a good challenge for a mechanic
what about fixed rollers as well to help the orientation |
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bushman
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Interesting question, a friend of mine is a consultant neurosurgeon and I know some good physios too. Will ask them for their thoughts. Good luck with the recovery
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eastway82
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: Getting your balance back after a head injury |
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| Fritz wrote: |
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Have you ever ridden a trike? It does your head in, even if it's not already been done in before you start... |
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KJ
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: Getting your balance back after a head injury |
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| eastway82 wrote: |
| Fritz wrote: |
| I suggested a trike |
Have you ever ridden a trike? It does your head in, even if it's not already been done in before you start... |
I concur. I borrowed a racing trike one summer and rode it around East Yorkshire. It's more like dinghy sailing than cycling and seriously scary on the hills 
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Tucker
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: Getting your balance back after a head injury |
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| eastway82 wrote: |
| Fritz wrote: |
| I suggested a trike |
Have you ever ridden a trike? It does your head in, even if it's not already been done in before you start... |
Really? What's different about them? I just assumed it would be a pain to steer. |
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mho
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:37 pm Post subject: Re: Getting your balance back after a head injury |
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| Tucker wrote: |
| eastway82 wrote: |
| Fritz wrote: |
| I suggested a trike |
Have you ever ridden a trike? It does your head in, even if it's not already been done in before you start... |
Really? What's different about them? I just assumed it would be a pain to steer. |
Yep you steer by hanging from side to side ala dingy sailing to alter the centre of gravity. |
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John McC
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Feck that.
And one looks a prat too.
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Tucker
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:51 am Post subject: Re: Getting your balance back after a head injury |
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| mho wrote: |
| Tucker wrote: |
| eastway82 wrote: |
| Fritz wrote: |
| I suggested a trike |
Have you ever ridden a trike? It does your head in, even if it's not already been done in before you start... |
Really? What's different about them? I just assumed it would be a pain to steer. |
Yep you steer by hanging from side to side ala dingy sailing to alter the centre of gravity. |
But I steer a dinghy by turning the outboard motor... |
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eastway82
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:59 am Post subject: Re: Getting your balance back after a head injury |
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| Tucker wrote: |
But I steer a dinghy by turning the outboard motor... |
If you've ever ridden one of those trick/circus bikes where the bars turn the opposite way to the wheel, that's the level of headfck you get on a trike first time out. It's completely counter-intuitive and most people end up going straight on at the first corner. And, as John McC says, you look a prat too. |
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Zarate
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But it's a great laugh, and works you hard as well on the climbs.
Though of course Duffers was a trike man, and that says it all really.
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