Broken Collar bones??

Jimbo
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Broken Collar bones?? Sept 12, 2016 15:30:06 GMT

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Post by Jimbo on Sept 12, 2016 15:30:06 GMT

Hi All,

Need some advice please, fortunately it's not my collar bone. However, my poor Sister (who you all helped get her son the right first DH Bike a few months back) fell off her horse on Saturday and has broken her collar bone in 3 places.

Now she has been told it doesn't need plating but every time she moves she can feel the 3 parts all moving, so how does it heel? She has a second opinion with a private specialist but that is not until Saturday and she would love to avoid having to have it re-broken and plated.

Any advice or recommendations?

As for her son, he is loving his Giant DH rig and is jumping huge courses with no fear

just get out and ride!

Chopper
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Broken Collar bones?? Sept 12, 2016 17:58:25 GMT via mobile

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Post by Chopper on Sept 12, 2016 17:58:25 GMT

Having broke mine 3 times i know where she's coming from, my first was the same, try not to move it as mush as you can, it will re set itself, plating it is a last resort, docs really don't like doing it as it risks infection, 6 weeks before i went back to work, my mate had his plated and he has a permanent lump, i don't, if the doc says it doesn't need plated then trust his judgement is my advice

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jack
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Broken Collar bones?? Sept 13, 2016 6:06:20 GMT via mobile

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Post by jack on Sept 13, 2016 6:06:20 GMT

If they think it should heal on its own they will just tell her to leave it and the bones will regrow together, you'd be surprised how good the body is, aslong as thr sling is in the correct position it should be all good

6-8 weeks they generally say or slightly less if it's plated seeing as it's already in thr correct position, my friend snapped his arm bad at bpw and they put him in a sling there and said go to your own doctors and gt them to check it etc... 2 weeks later for his xray back in derby it was worse than before... sling wasn't in correct position, Derby redid it and a month later it was back to looking like a normal arm rather than a jumble of bones under some skin

I had mine plated as the break had over lapped and wouldn't of gone back together anything like,

Week 14 now and I'm only just allowed to lift things and use it properly :/ few more weeks till I'm back to normal

Best thing she can do is keep it as still as possible eat and drink well so her body's got everything it needs to heal
A friend of mine hammered down loads of multivitamin and bone tablets etc and said it seemed to help speed things up

Last Edit: Sept 13, 2016 6:16:12 GMT by jack