Maybe something like that can help until her hand is healed up enough to use straps and then, eventually, her grip.
http://www.roguefitness.com/harbinger-lifting-hooks
My lifting partner got a serious dog bite that ruined her grip strength. She can't hold a bar in her hands if it weighs more than 135. She tried and we wound up in the ER for toradol and muscle relaxers so that she could move her hand again.
Is there any variation where she can do the work of the deadlift without actually holding the bar in the hands? Maybe wrist straps? Please help!
Maybe something like that can help until her hand is healed up enough to use straps and then, eventually, her grip.
http://www.roguefitness.com/harbinger-lifting-hooks
Lifting hooks might help with the deadlifts, but it's important to keep working the damaged area as much as she can tolerate in the meantime. Scarring is the biggest hindrance to regaining the use of various parts, and using the injured part as soon as possible reduces scarring a lot. I had a serious hand injury that kept me from playing an instrument for over a decade until I just started beating the hell out of it to break up the scarring. If someone had told me that when I got the injury, my life might have been quite a bit different.
Yeah sure. This is why I suggested those hooks until she can use straps and then her grip again :-)
In the meantime, she can hold the bar on her warmup sets up to a weight that becomes painful.
Best of luck with her training and recovery.
Deadlift Alternative Exercises
The movement pattern and muscles used in these exercises are fundamentally the same as the Deadlift.
They will allow her hand to heal while maintaining and most likely increasing her Deadlift once she able to do so, again.
1) Good Mornings
2) 45 Degree Back Raise/Hip Extension
3) 90 Degree Back Raise/Hip Extension
Kenny Croxdale
Last edited by Kenny Crox; 05-31-2017 at 08:27 AM.