Most of what I'm doing now is just to see how much I can improve overall strength and stamina with weight bearing exercise. The wrist was pronounced ok several weeks ago. The thing is, being a perfectionist about these things, I keep comparing the left with the right (which is also exercising, so is a moving target)... It may take forever for the left to catch up.
That said, I think the route of surgery and physical therapy (no cast) are relatively new developments. The PT started a week after the fracture, so the time that would have been spent in the cast was instead spent with exercises. At the six-week mark (when the cast would have come off, they started me on the weights to get the strength back up. To tell the truth, I'm not sure which route would have been best. 6 weeks in a cast, then some exercise, or spork and exercise right away.
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That said, I think the route of surgery and physical therapy (no cast) are relatively new developments. The PT started a week after the fracture, so the time that would have been spent in the cast was instead spent with exercises. At the six-week mark (when the cast would have come off, they started me on the weights to get the strength back up. To tell the truth, I'm not sure which route would have been best. 6 weeks in a cast, then some exercise, or spork and exercise right away.