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the toninator 250+
Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 1706 Location: Hights
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:53 am GMT +0000 Post subject: I have joined the broken clavicle crew. |
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I have a workout plan but don’t know when I should start. I broke it last Saturday and the bones stayed together. How long does it take for the bone to set and when can I start the trainer work outs? |
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The Bike Doc 250+
Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 1398 Location: Corpus Christi and Warda, Texas
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:54 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Toninator:
You can get on the trainer now. Raise the handlebars to help decrease the pressure and weight bearing on the fractured clavicle side. If you hit a health club that has recumbent trainers, this will not be an issue. Heck you might even think about going out and attacking Le Alpe D'Huez. I hear some tough riders with newly broken clavicles can even win on it! Fractured claviles take about 6 weeks to heal if they are stable fractures which sounds like yours is. The key is let pain be your guide. If you find what your are doing hurts too much back off. Wait on off road riding for the full 6 weeks to allow the clavicle to heal, as a spill can re-fracture it easily while it is still healing. I learned this the hard way with motorcycles from years gone by.
Thanks, _________________ Paul K. Nolan, MD
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the toninator 250+
Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 1706 Location: Hights
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:09 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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thanks I’ve already got the recumbent style spin bike hooked up. I’ll start doing that in the next day or two.
I’m not sure about the alp but I did bike the 5 miles from the park to the ER, do I get any tough buys points for that? |
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Schroeder 250+
Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 1215 Location: Conroe
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:26 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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the toninator wrote: | thanks I’ve already got the recumbent style spin bike hooked up. I’ll start doing that in the next day or two.
I’m not sure about the alp but I did bike the 5 miles from the park to the ER, do I get any tough buys points for that? |
on a scale of 1 to 10, it rates..... _________________ Anyone seen Snoopy????
Set goals to become better than you used to be, not better than someone else. |
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brokinator Guest
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:47 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Please just the thought of having to do that would have you running for the safety of your vestibule. The pain wasn’t so much it was the grinding of the bones that was freaking me out.
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The Bike Doc 250+
Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 1398 Location: Corpus Christi and Warda, Texas
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:03 am GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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the toninator wrote: | thanks I’ve already got the recumbent style spin bike hooked up. I’ll start doing that in the next day or two.
I’m not sure about the alp but I did bike the 5 miles from the park to the ER, do I get any tough buys points for that? |
You get a 9.5 on my scale. It goes to 10 if you road home from the ER!
Thanks, _________________ Paul K. Nolan, MD
AKA: The Bike Doc |
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the toninator 250+
Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 1706 Location: Hights
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 7:56 am GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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The Bike Doc wrote: | the toninator wrote: | thanks I’ve already got the recumbent style spin bike hooked up. I’ll start doing that in the next day or two.
I’m not sure about the alp but I did bike the 5 miles from the park to the ER, do I get any tough buys points for that? |
You get a 9.5 on my scale. It goes to 10 if you road home from the ER!
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woohoo i get a 10!!!!!!!
btw i felt the bone this morning and it feels really weird. theres a boney lump right around where the fracture is. |
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The Bike Doc 250+
Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 1398 Location: Corpus Christi and Warda, Texas
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:39 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Boninator:
You are now a callused man! That boney lump you feel is where the bone is healing and a thickened new bone formation, called a callus, develops over the fractured area. You are on the mend! (But don't go crazy yet, give a full 6 - 8 weeks heal before you take up sky diving!) The callus will gradually get thicker and may persist throughout your life giving evidence of how callused you really are. Since I busted my clavicle twice just 6 weeks appart, I am quite a callused individual, too.
Thanks, _________________ Paul K. Nolan, MD
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boneheadanator Guest
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:35 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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thanks for sll your help doc
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Tex Mex New
Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 18
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:33 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Sorry to hear about your misfortune, Tony. I have broken mine twice. The first one healed good, although it remained non union to this day. However the second time was bad. So even though it had been 2 years between the two, I would recommend not breaking the same one twice.
Good luck. And let Pam and I know if we can help in any way.
Mike _________________ MOJO |
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:42 am GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Your break looks pretty clean. I can only compare it against mine which broke in two places and looked like a lightning bolt. I eventually had to get it pinned. |
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:44 am GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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if that xray is yours then you do not havea broken clavicle you have a grade 4/5 A/C seperation and I would seek and ortho consult...your clavicle may need to be screwed back down to your acromion to prevent shoulder instability |
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the toninator 250+
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:06 am GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Teamortho06 wrote: | if that xray is yours then you do not havea broken clavicle you have a grade 4/5 A/C seperation and I would seek and ortho consult...your clavicle may need to be screwed back down to your acromion to prevent shoulder instability |
Thanks Doc mark! I went to a popular Ortho here. He re-Xrayed it (that picture is a bad pic of the Er xray) and still felt it was a break.
We monitored it and everything has come out great. 3 weeks ago i did a full lap at Flat Rock Ranch then we went over to Tap and did a lap. For the whole day i only had a little discomfort.
Then 2 weeks ago we did a lap through Bastrop and Buscher SP's then a full lap at RHR, no real problems.
This past saturday i did 4 laps at Tap with no pain or discomfort excpet the discomfort from getting shelled off of the back of the pack on a pre-ride :p |
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