broken collarbone, fractured clavicle (Read 1850 times)

did the search thing.

looks like some pain meds, lengthen the recovery time? same with NSAIDS?

any other input to quicken my recovery? DR says 4 weeks before running, that translates to a week or 2 for me. (DR being overly cautious)

you dont want to be swinging your arms about in any way, that will lengthen your recovery.

milk?

Nothing you do is likely to speed up or slow down your recovery.

Not even ultimate fighting?

thanks for the quick response.

need to come up with a witty comeback,  to the "what happened to you?"

body slammed by the son............

I set up a patient with an ultrasound bone stim last year that broke his collar bone on a Monday. Doc called me on a Friday. I set up the patient on a Monday. He was flying to Atlanta to race a 10K the upcoming Saturday. He was an elite masters runners and had sponsors who already paid for his flight. Prize money was involved also. This was his "job". He said he had to do it. He healed quickly using the bone stim. The race was tough but he posted an excellent time. No set back in the race but this was not ideal for him to race this.

For you, just stay nutritionally sound. If you don't consume dairy products, taking some calcium and Vit. D won't hurt elsewise. Try to avoid any motions/movements that make it hurt or cause fracture to move. If you have motion within the fracture site, you are at an increased risk for non union and thus surgery and or bone stim. Listen to your doc. If healthy and don't smoke/diabetes, you should heal fine and probably don't need the bone stim. If xrays show no improvement in a month, then this may be an option. Just be good!

thanks for the quick response.

 

need to come up with a witty comeback,  to the "what happened to you?"

 

body slammed by the son............

i usually start with the original incident to gain the persons trust, then go off on a grizzly bear wrestling tangent.

For something involving broken bones, I usually offer up something mundane.  "I was shaving" or "I was taking out the trash".

 

Good luck.  You already know what a broken collarbone feels like.  You start swinging them arms and breathing hard, you may see pretty colors.  Take a teasy.

never knew I'd get such colorful bruising.

yeah, now I know what a broken collarbone feels like, I'm ready to be healed, already.

I broke my collarbone whilst mountain biking (dammit if my kid brother can make that jump so can I :/). Oddly enough cycling is something that you can do pretty well with a broken collar bone... certainly it's easier on the injury than running.