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I go in for surgery in the morning.........
1) most important, drop the pain pills as soon as you can. withdraw is a bitch. I only took my oxycodone 3 days after surgery and it was still really rough.
2) eat meat and drink your milk, your body needs nutrition to repair even if you don't feel like it.
3) if you have physical therapy, do it twice as much as your supposed to.
4) don't be afraid to use that arm just a little bit, like drinking or changing channels
5) stay calm the day of surgery, but tell them if you need a catheter put it in and pull it out while your asleep. they will. you want that.
6) don't complain to your doctor, or he WILL make you wait 4 months to ride.
7) when you do ride again, go easy and work your way up. you don't know what you can handle and what you can't.
8) ask for x ray copies, if you say its for your follow up doctor, they are free.
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Truth is, i'm a newbie, and i fall. So that worries me when i'll be back, but after reading alot about other motocrossers having the same plates stuck in and being able to ride after 4-6 weeks, i was thinking why am i being told 4 months. That puts me to the end of Sept.
My surgery is suppose to be a day surgery, and if the pain isn't much he said i can leave tomorrow. I'm hoping it all goes well.
I already bought calcium vitamin d supplements and i plant to eat alot of foods with it.
Check on the meat and milk. I'm gonna do my best to be able to back riding asap. But i would be taking it slow for sure.
This happened last Labor Day (Sept. 3rd). I don’t have any issues, post-surgery. I was in no rush to, but riding again in December.
If there are multiple chips that can't be screwed or pinned there will be 'divots' where new bone has to fill in before it's strong and that takes time. I found it better dealing with the Dr. instead of a PA as he was much more experienced.
The doctor joked before i went under that since i planned on motocrossing again he was going tio insert plates in my left one ahead of time. They commented how its rare they get girls in surgery from motocross accidents, then i was out like a light and woke up two or so hours later... in a lot of pain i might add. But it's done! Let the healing begin...
thanks guys for all your advice and sharing your experiences with me, it meant alot.
Try not to take too many pain meds as they can be habit forming... I like an 800mg Ibuprofen and 1 Extra strength Tylenol myself, it doesnt kill ALL of the pain but at least you can function on it and it is easier to tell when your real pain is subsiding on its own. I have never done my clavical like you did but I did explode my left elbow almost 20 years ago into 15 pieces and I still have hardware in there holding it together... but it still works!!!
I am not sure if you have to do Physical Therapy on this type of injury but if you do it is more important than the surgery to gain all your range of motion and strength back.
Make sure to follow your doctors orders and you will be good as new in no time at all and getting ready to go ride again!!!
I had surgery (hurt like hell!) arm brace for two weeks, started physio, had ZERO pain, pushed myself too fast + made the mistake of picking up a little toddler and the screws started loosening a few weeks after surgery. After my doc. appoint I had to wear an arm brace for another six weeks in hopes that it would heal enough so my doctor wouldn’t have to go back in and install another plate. During the six weeks the plate continued to lift and in doing so deformed my bone. When my doc opened me back up in late August he saw that the bone was healed enough and just removed the plate (which was what I wanted at the time). Over the coming weeks the bone continued to protrude my skin, my shoulder was slumped once again and was shortened, It looked worse than when I first broke it. On my next appointment my doctor scheduled me in for surgery again on Oct. 9th, this time he installed a longer plate with 8 screws. It’s now week 3 and everything is looking good. I found it interesting how the first time it hurt like hell but with each surgery it became less and less painful. He told me it would be better to keep the plate in this time because my bone has too many holes in it, it would be left weakened and would likely fracture more easily the next time I fell.
What I’ve come to learn in the long process is that each person heals differently, I pushed myself too quickly and paid for it. This time around, no physio, and I’m still in an arm brace for four more weeks until I see my doctor again.
I’ve learned so much from this, and I’ve come a long way from the girl who was terrified of having surgery last May.
Of course it sucked watching friends and family go out riding this summer while I was stuck behind, even friends that broke their clavicles were back out riding before me but I wish I would have been more patient in the beginning, at least I would have been riding right now. I still have lots of work once I’m healed to get muscle and range back but I’m looking forward to riding next season!
first plate progress:
After they removed the first plate:
What it looked like:
New plate:
The other times i broke it the break was pretty clean, this time not so much. When i had a clean break i was riding after 4 weeks. I think this time it will be after 6 or 7 weeks.
Pit Row
30 days after having mine plated an axle block broke on my 450 staling the motor on the top of the uphill at Washougel. Just a little set back.
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