Clavicle Error - Broken Collarbone

So Josh, you have not been given an appointment with the fracture clinic yet, then?

Also, the bone is supposed to find its own way back. It doesn't always do this, but majority of the time, it does.

The bone will naturally align. Was it a clean line break?

Heal up SP. Spend your free time designing more lush Mericans...

The bone will naturally align. Was it a clean line break?

Yep, seemed to be.

Thanks for the kind words. you lot are blimmin' great.

Question: They haven't put the bone in place and back together yet, should they have? Will the bone naturally try to align?

Skully et al, I'll be dropping the painkillers ASAP for all the reasons you and others have stated. I took some to help me get out of bed this morning and I'll see how it goes.

No, the bone should be left to align itself (normally) - thats what the sling does.

Agree re dropping painkillers but I took them for a bit, guess I must be a softy but I don't care - it huuuurt! ;-)

Oh and if you go private they are normally nice enough to offer you a copy of the x-ray!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6108166&id=513976340

(doesn't look like much aye...)

Mine was/is also close to the shoulder and was very fucking painful for the first 2 weeks. I was advised by the consultant at fracture clinic to take cocodamol to relieve this. The inevitable constipation was a bit of salt in the wound but the pain relief was bliss.

If you don't see a consultant for 2 weeks, the healing process will have started so the discomfort will be less. Don't be fooled into thinking you're able to use the arm fully until you're given an all clear though & make sure you get physio. Your muscles will be holding everything still while you heal and you need to get the movement back properly.

For the record: it's not what you SHOULD do, just advice from my experience, which is by no means exemplary. Apart from anything alse, painkillers have side effects. I personally think the pain of a broken clavicle is fucking horrible, and stopping taking the tablets was pretty hard. Go easy on yourself, that's the most inportant thing. Good that you're thinking of going private. Don't get stressed out about touring or whatever. Just focus on eating really well, resting, healing. And ganja. Don't forget the ganja.

...I took some to help me get out of bed this morning and I'll see how it goes.

Fine. Except ... go back to bed. With a really decent book.

And ganja. Don't forget the ganja.

As I said earlier, I'm no pharmacist but drugs are your friend ;-)

Ganja is not a drug. It's His Majesty's Herb. But yes.

White Diamant track bike. Had it been the Mercian I'd have destroyed the offender directly in the cunt (with my good arm).

Phew!

Phew!
Nurse in the house! Youll be fine now;-)

(damn, i shouldve started a thread for my broken ankle.... :-( )

On the subject of cutting out caffeine: if you're missing hot drinks and end up getting all herbal, comfrey tea is supposed to benefical for broken bone healing ... it's 'old wives'' name is 'knitbone'.

^ want.

Also, still want to know if Josh was given a bone clinic appointment right away!! Am I on his ignore list?

And speaking of pics of busted up bones, Scotland also gave me mine:

Anyway, I'm off to Oxford today for probably the second or third most important interviews I'll have over the duration of my PhD (this is the interview in which they decide whether I'm good enough to remain in the programme one-year on). Coming in with a sling and hopped up on codeine is either going to help or seriously hinder me.

Fuck! That must be clicking like crazy!

Good luck with the interview!

So Josh, you have not been given an appointment with the fracture clinic yet, then?

Also, the bone is supposed to find its own way back. It doesn't always do this, but majority of the time, it does.

I'm going to see them this avo. They ideally would like to see me tomorrow. But I made the appointment based on the premise that I was going away tomorrow.

And speaking of pics of busted up bones, Scotland also gave me mine:

Horatio, your break looks much more impressive than mine...

Budda, I think yours looks much worse because of how close to the join it is.

Mine took about 3 months, 2 of them with a metal plate in:
http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~dougal/pictures/Me/XRays/images/X-ray2.Full.sm.jpg
if you haven't got an appoinment for 2 weeks it's not a bad one and they are waiting to see how it nits together naturally, I was sent home after a friday in a&e with an appointment for the following Monday where they basically told me I'd be staying in hospital for the next week for surgery and stuff... Then walking about with a metal plate for 2 months and then a month in a sling and another couple of months not riding (advice that, I think like most of us, I pretty much ignored)...

I don't know how pain killers effect healing, but pain makes you more careful which must be a good thing. Weed is a great painkiller and lowers swelling, not saying if it's good or bad, but if you are avioding painkillers you should be avoiding weed too.

I don't have an appointment for two weeks cause that's all my gp could find on her computer (the first one she tried to give me was six). She didn't even look at the x ray. It was broken in scotland so they couldn't make any appointments. I wish I waited to go to a and e here...

Fuck, I'm losing count of all the people with collar bone breaks. It's become like a disease.

Here's a generic heal up fast guys-n-gals wish to everyone with broken bits. And her's hoping this current trend for wearing slings falls out of fashion and people stop breaking themselves.

Ride safe peeps.

Just remembered the worst thing about breaking mine. Being told the collarbone isn't an essential bone in the human structure by my consultant. I now simply regard it as a complete fucking inconvenience.

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Question: They haven't put the bone in place and back together yet, should they have? Will the bone naturally try to align?

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They can only put the bone together with a pin. Otherwise the two broken parts of bone will start to form a join naturally 'if' they are close enough and if you have the right physiology. Slings, clavicle rings etc.. only work in certain cases. After waiting for 6 months for my bone to join the doctors were still not able to confirm from the x-rays if there was a firm join so they decided to send me to have a hook-pin fitted. It turns out it was the correct decision because what they thought was bone forming a union on the x-ray turned out to be fibrous muscle. The process took 2 operations and 18 months which is pretty much the worst case scenario. Normally 3-4 months and you should be sorted.

Did they put you in cast, Josh?

I remember when I was at school, there was a boy who broke his collar bone twice the same year. As it was a nasty fracture (with dislocated fracture) he had to stay in a cast like this one for 3 months:

Hopefully in your case it will be all over after a month.

Something to help all of you guys to get on your bike quicker:
http://summitmedicalgroup.com/library/sports_health/broken_collarbone_exercises/