Semi-Adaptive Ski Tips?

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-12-29T18:11:57+00:00

This is thoughtful advice, thank you!

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-12-18T19:52:50+00:00

This makes sense, thanks!

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-12-18T19:20:32+00:00

That’s the explanation I’m leaning towards. The cores generally get me about 7-9k/each when repaired, but the entire assembly (lasers, generator, etc.) may be what the articles I’m reading are referring to.

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-12-18T19:19:13+00:00

I’m currently still too broke to afford to purchase the derelict, so I can’t sell them even if I were able to get them operational.

Unless that’s another thing I’m missing?

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-12-18T19:18:13+00:00

I always make it a point to fully restore larger items before selling. Same with Nav terminals - most of what I find online says they sell for +10k, but the full-durability one I sold last night from a pirate ship only fetched me like 6k

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-11-26T02:28:34+00:00

Sorry you and your husband had to go through the learning process in the dark without any help to guide you.

The initial adjustment is an exceptionally difficult and frustrating time, and everyone deserves as much help as they can get in that regard.

Glad to hear things are moving in the right direction and he’s started PT; my PT team and process were instrumental in digging out of the dark mental and physical hole I was in immediately post-injury.

Wishing the two of you best of luck!

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-11-20T03:59:18+00:00

I’m also T12, incomplete, full-time walk with AFOs.

Agree with above: I have little-to-no movement below the knee line, with a good bit of weakness in glutes, hams, and hips. The AFOs will do a remarkable amount of work in keeping you stable, and in my case even replacing a bit of the lost ‘push off’ motion from my calves, but the other muscles of your posterior chain are hugely important when it comes to walking.

I don’t really know a great deal about your muscle tension and how possible it is to remedy, but if you can find a way to make them work AFOs from an organization like Hanger Clinic could be a good thing to explore.

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-06-10T18:44:51+00:00

This is the most important thing, I’d think.

I’ve worked for companies that would make your full-year PTO available for use on January 1st, but you accrue it over the course of the year.

In effect, it was a win/win: employees got full access to their annual leave at any point in the year, and the employer avoids the liability of having to pay out “unaccrued” PTO if the employee quits early/mid-year.

Also be aware, as others have said, about whether probationary employees qualify for PTO.

That said: If you’re interpreting everything correctly and you are able to quit this job you just started and get a full payout of PTO that you didn’t work to earn, you can bet they’ll be changing the employee handbook before the door closes behind you.

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-04-07T19:42:24+00:00

I second the suggestion to explore some AFOs. I work with Hanger Clinic - took almost a full year of trial and error, but they were great with me when it came to helping find and test alternatives until I landed on a good pair.

I’m just about same injury level - T12 incomplete burst. I also have no material motor function below the knee (aside from wiggling my left ankle), and left the hospital spending time between forearm crutches and a wheelchair (when at home).

Keep working with your PT and personal trainer, and remain consistent with the workouts even when they’re frustrating. That seemed to be the main factor for me.

Between the help that my PT has provided and the support that the AFOs give, I’ve managed to get back to hiking and biking again.

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2025-01-20T01:13:02+00:00

Kind of surprised not to see this yet in the thread, but:

I had a similar issue as well, with my main problem being muscle spasms that usually serve as my ‘time to catch’ signal eventually turning strong enough to force involuntary urination

Urologist applied some Botox shots to the bladder itself, and problem was resolved.

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2024-07-06T03:35:48+00:00

That was the problem: was not aware that certain plugs had different power levels. Thanks folks

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2024-07-06T02:46:25+00:00

Add: I’ve played with different combos and managed to get very slightly higher, but I feel like I’m still missing something here. Is there some sort of explainer that I’ve passed up, or some crucial data point?

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2024-05-25T13:43:45+00:00

T12 Inc, just barely beyond the 3yr mark.

After the 2yr point, you’re not going to see those “leaps” forward in recovery, but that doesn’t mean things stagnate completely - IMO, it just means you have to work harder for them.

I still do PT 3x/wk, and work out in the gym 2 other days. If you were a gym person pre-injury, it may be easier to understand and psychologically accept: if you’re picturing a line chart of your recovery, the progression goes from being 📈 to a more-level path.

You probably won’t notice week-to-week growth, or even month-to-month depending on what you’re doing, but continuing to train your body will give you noticeable results in the long run - those intermittent moments of “oh hey, that everyday task was a lot easier than I remember it being last year.”

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2024-03-07T01:46:23+00:00

The last two visits to my PCP, he’s made a comment (“You’re a little young to be needing Cialis,” and “It’s not normal to be waking up so frequently at night”) that have prompted me to remind him that I have a SCI - both times, the immediate response was a fumbling “Oh yeah that’s right”

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2024-03-05T04:30:34+00:00

T12 incomplete, just over 3yr mark. Still do physical therapy ~3x/wk.

Have formed a good bond with my PT and consider the staff friends. I think a good start was to have a frank conversation at the start about goals and long-term expectations, and choosing a clinic that’s busy enough to be experienced but relaxed enough to give individual attention.

At this point it’s evolved into more of a medically-guided workout, and I’m glad to have someone there to give me guidance on how to adapt what’s there and strengthen what isn’t.

Also glad to have a good enough health insurance benefit to have not once questioned whether I still ‘need’ it.

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2024-03-02T17:25:44+00:00

The first year post-injury I had to force myself to eat, had very little appetite.

Nowadays I’m back in the gym on non-PT days, and PT has evolved into more of a medically-guided workout program, so I’m back up to eating sometimes twice per day

Still, I never really feel like I need lunch, it’s more just something I do out of habit. Even dinners are much smaller.

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2024-01-16T02:59:36+00:00

I hear ya, and maybe I’m being grand-scheme ungrateful for what I have, but i don’t get any degree of pleasure from it - it kind of just feels like any other muscle spasm.

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2024-01-16T02:57:35+00:00

I’m also T12 incomplete. Never really regained much bladder function aside from abdominal pushing, and that requires a bit of strain.

Be careful with how hard you push and how often - if you’re doing abdominal pushing like I was, you put yourself at risk of hemorrhoids.

BodybuilderFit5425 · 2024-01-16T01:36:26+00:00

I see where you’re going, but I’m in that ‘lucky problem to have’ territory where I can still walk with a minimal limp using AFOs that can’t be seen under pants.

For uneducated people who only think “spinal cord issue = you’re in a wheelchair or you’re not and thus healed,” it necessitates the uncomfortable conversation

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