owwww & how long from breaking a clacicle before riding again?

ouchy doesn't describe it. morphine is rather nice, but 15 mph off
road is not much of a story. The 1 hour ride home was "interesting!
and Dr's said I couldn't have as it would have hurt too much!!

so in the spirit of one handed left hand typing, how long before
riding's likely to be possible again?

do I get cc number?

cheers

SS

 

Around here it's obligatory to ride to the hospital with a broken one,
so congrats on the ride home. Good stuff. Doctors know nothing,
especially those who've never played rough sports or dangerous pastimes.
Last one I broke it was at least a month before normal activity resumed
and that was very gingerly - should have been six weeks. There's nothing
worse than going at it too early, re-breaking it and back to square one.

 

ta - so left handed w**king for a month? I'll cope.

in a pansy-foo-foo way, the thought of re-breaking scares the sh1t out
of me.

cheers

SS

 

About 6 weeks. Life improves at about the 4 week mark, but you still remember
how much the bloody thing hurt so tend to take it easy. I've broken both mine.

What, like 600?

 

hopefully not at the same time! Amazing how many things you need two
working hands for - even eating a tub of yogurt!

you know on ukrm there probably are 600 Clumsy Cnuts.....

cheers

SS

 

thanks Champ

TBH it's in the sling (not an 8 one) and when still there is little /
no pain. if I move it wrong, dockers are embarrassed by the language.

fecking hero st\atus

will ask at fracture clinic on Monday - sounds like good advice.

cheers SS

 

Picture of said bandage here.

http://www.shouldersolutions.com/ac_4.php

 

Did that when I impailed myself on a spike that went 10cm into my arm

I'm hard, me

Happened to a contractor I knew in germany - reversed down a mogul run
with bindings not set correctly

cost him a lot of hours lost wages

 

Fucking hell. Hard little bastards.

 

I saw some sort of TV documentary where they showed the process. The
clavicle doesn't perform any useful function so nobody misses it. The bone
isn't completely removed. The surgeon just removes the middle third so that
the fracture never heals. A callous forms on either end of the bits left
and the small cavity is soon filled by soft tissue. Next time the jockey
falls off they get a bruise and concussion but no break that puts them out
for a few days/weeks.

 

Thank Ged for good drugs.

"clacicle"
Is that any bike over 20 years old?

 

oh yesssss

it's typing left handed



thanks for all the info chaps. At least it hasn't put me off riding /
riding off road.

cheers

SS

 

interesting - I wish I'd had that done, 'cos when I re-broke it for
the third time it *really* hurt like **** (the first two times I'd
been drinking).

Though I didn't ride to the hospital (I'd not got into biking) the
first time, I did drive there, having to change gear with my right
hand (having broken my LHS clavicle).

 

I went shooting in Prague 5 days after breaking mine... needed a
bit of help holding the AK47 steady on full auto though!

It took me about 3 weeks before I could lift my arm above my
shoulder level, but was more or less fully mobile after 4 weeks
and the doc sent me on my way after the obligatory facture
clinic check-up.

You'll find that the ends of the bones where it broke will be soft
and almost sticky - you may feel them pull apart and rub together
but slowly this will get less and less until they "knit" after about
10 days or so.

What I found most painful was not the bone break itself, in fact
that was never painful even when they grind together, but the
"dead" weight that my upper arm muscles had to carry due
to the arm being immobile. Having a decent sling helped but
I would echo Champ's remark about a figure-8 sling instead.

My shoulder now sits about 2" lower and forward of where it should
be, and it still aches every now and then 3 years later. There's
still a big join lump where the two ends didn't knit together perfect
but overlapped and fused instead - it may have been that a fig-8
sling would have stopped both these ongoing issues.

 

I dunno. A youth spent crashing cars when restrained by 4-point belts
led to a series of clavicle breaks - going forward hard against the
belts, see. A doctor made comment about my habits, when looking at an
X-ray of my shoulder: the healed breaks looked like a string of beads
and they were visible under the skin on close examination: you could
certainly feel the lumps, three to the left and four to the right.

That was fifteen years ago (the breaks were all over 25 years ago) and
the lumps have all disappeared now. Reabsorbed, I guess. The body is
a wonderful healing machine, given a chance. I mean, look at Champ -
as long as he keeps drinking milk and semen, his bones keep mending.