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femoral nerve damage 18-Nov-2005 At 1:43:01 PM raff32

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Okay folks,
I started climbing at vic ranges about 2 yrs ago, after a while I bailed to thailand for six months and got some climbing in there. When I came back I started up at the gym again but unfortunately I had an accident on my bike and broke my pelvis.

Anyway I would like to say that I was charging hard and all that but the truth was that I was finding it hard to keep motivated through lack of any real progress in my grades (didnt help being a member at vic ranges with the shirtless mafia walkin around all the time making it extremely embarrassing for mere mortals like myself LOL

Anyway after my pelvis healed up, i discovered that I have done some damage to my femoral nerve, I had hoped that it would return to full strength but to be brutally honest I dont think tis gonna happen somehow (it has been over a year and 3 months) For those of you that arent aware of what the femoral nerve controls it basically powers the quadricep, thus providing the impetus to be able to straighten my leg. Although I must admit the improvement has been pretty good (I can now walk up stairs almost unaided) and to some extent i can also carry my own weight on a slightly bent leg, I am wondering what advice you guys could give me for overcoming this handicap to take up climbing again?

Basically for the last year or so I havent really had any exercise to speak of cos a) I feel like a bit of a gimp and that i look like im limping all the time (even though in normal walking it is barely noticable and B) I tire quite easily cos of my lack of exercise.

any tips or pointers or hell even a "dont bother ull be pushing shit uphill"would be cool

many thanx