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Tacha Started a new thread Clavicle Surgery -Update

10/29/2017 10:31pm
I took a bad fall out riding on Thursday and fractured my right clavicle. My doctor recommended surgery with the type of break i have (the bones are overlapping and their not touching with a pretty big gap between). Being scared, i opted not to at the time. I was sent home with option B. a brace in hopes that...
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11/3/2013 7:16pm
hope you heal quickly! Smile I was told i couldn't ride before 3 months, but i've heard of some riding 6 weeks after but there's always a chance if you fall you'll mess it up. I didn't even have to ride to mess my first plate up.

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10/30/2013 1:37am
I thought I’d pop in here and give an update to my story. I initially broke my right clavicle last May, its been five months and unfortunately my healing process hasn’t been a very good one. I had surgery (hurt like hell!) arm brace for two weeks, started physio, had ZERO pain, pushed myself too fast + made the mistake...

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5/30/2013 4:42pm
back from the hospital... i thought breaking my clavicle hurt. woke up in a world of pain. got lots of healing to do... taking it one step at a time. go back for doc. appointment in 11 days for xrays as well. The doctor joked before i went under that since i planned on motocrossing again he was going tio...

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5/29/2013 9:04pm
That about looks what i'll be getting tomorrow. The only thing that sucks about waiting, is that i'd have a month at most of riding before snow hits and then i'd have to wait till next spring. Rush too soon and i'll be back at the hospital... so i'm going to heal and hopefully get the clear sooner than my...

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5/29/2013 9:00pm
oh my god, that looks so painful. It must of sucked. I'm going to take it one step at a time, and hope i can start riding again sooner rather than later. Smile

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5/29/2013 6:38pm
Thanks for the tips, exactly what i was searching to hear. I'm on morphine right now, but i've been barely taking it, because at the moment the pain isn't bad. I go in for surgery tomorrow. And when i re-asked my doctor about the four months, with a chuckle i said so i can ride after 6-8 weeks, he shook...

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5/29/2013 6:29pm
Here's a pic of my first xray a couple hours after the break, the second 5 days later, you can see just how much the bones shifted...

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5/29/2013 5:55pm
Saw my doctor today, new xrays and its worse, much worse, instead of fusing together they've moved away from each other. Surprisingly, i'm not in that much pain anymore and i thought i was healing. Guess i was wrong. Needless to say, i have no choice to do the surgery. I asked my doctor when was the earliest i could...

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5/28/2013 11:07am
funny how things that happen to us in life push us into new directions. I think it's awesome. I work from home, and now i'm pretty much limited to desk work and packaging. My first thought when i fell was seriously, oh shit, i broke something and now i can't work. But my parents have been doing so much, their...

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5/28/2013 10:47am
that's really good to know and i will mention this to him too Smile Not really looking forward to the pain i'll be in after surgery though........

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5/27/2013 10:20pm
Thanks guys. Smile My brother broke his a couple years back after a fall so when I went to the hospital I was anticipating a sling for a couple weeks like him. Until the xrays came back and they sent me home with morphine and asked me to return the next morning to see an orthopedic surgeon. It took me...