Broken Collarbone

Red said:

I am suffering from the above - has any one any practical experience as
to when I can expect to be back on the Windtrainer and then the road.

depends on the break, and how much pain you can tolerate. If it's a
simple fracture, you can probably ride straight away - TdF 2003 ring a
bell? Tyler Hamilton?

Bleve said:

Red said:

I am suffering from the above - has any one any practical experience as
to when I can expect to be back on the Windtrainer and then the road.

depends on the break, and how much pain you can tolerate. If it's a
simple fracture, you can probably ride straight away - TdF 2003 ring a
bell? Tyler Hamilton?

I broke mine August last year, broken into 3 distinct pieces, had
surgery and had a pin put in, was back at work two days later. Skiing 1
week later and back on the bike although very carefully 2 weeks later.

Basically the Dr was encouraging me to do anything pretty much straight
after the surgery.

If you aren't pinned the usuall will be 6 weeks in a sling.

I rebroke mine 3 mornings in a week due to waking up and stretching my arms above my head.

I was meant to have surgery to get rid of a splinter of bone pushing on my skin but crashed my bike again, rebroke it and the splinter went somewhere else. 😄

I think I was mountainbiking about 4-5 weeks after.

On 2006-06-05, Paulie-AU (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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I rebroke mine 3 mornings in a week due to waking up and stretching my
arms above my head.

I was meant to have surgery to get rid of a splinter of bone pushing on
my skin but crashed my bike again, rebroke it and the splinter went
somewhere else. 😄

I think I was mountainbiking about 4-5 weeks after.

I get the feeling it would be bad to take advice from Paulie. I may
be a crash bandicoot, but at least I've never broken and rebroken a
collarbone.

Damn, did I say that out loud? I better be careful today. Although
the puncture god's sidebusiness is stealth and they try to organise
things to happen when you aren't expecting them.

--
TimC
Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. --unknown

TimC said:

On 2006-06-05, Paulie-AU (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

I rebroke mine 3 mornings in a week due to waking up and stretching my
arms above my head.

I was meant to have surgery to get rid of a splinter of bone pushing on
my skin but crashed my bike again, rebroke it and the splinter went
somewhere else. 😄

I think I was mountainbiking about 4-5 weeks after.

I get the feeling it would be bad to take advice from Paulie. I may
be a crash bandicoot, but at least I've never broken and rebroken a
collarbone.

Damn, did I say that out loud? I better be careful today. Although
the puncture god's sidebusiness is stealth and they try to organise
things to happen when you aren't expecting them.

--
TimC
Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. --unknown

I wont list the other broken bones from cycling. :o

Lotte has done some serious bone braking in the name of cycling :eek:

Paulie-AU said:

Lotte has done some serious bone braking in the name of cycling :eek:

Who's bones were they?

Bleve wrote>Who's bones were they?

Various non line holding, non signalling, non announcing random cyclists. Shootie is reserved for "special" occasions.

Bleve said:

Who's bones were they?

*blink*

Red said:

I am suffering from the above - has any one any practical experience as
to when I can expect to be back on the Windtrainer and then the road.
Jeff

hope you heal quick Jeff. Out of curiosity how did you break it ??? Was it an exciting incident, or did you break changing channels with the remote control ?

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Lotte has done some serious bone braking in the name of cycling :eek:

Who's bones were they?[/QUOTE][PHP][/PHP]

nice one Bleve🙂 🙂

I just got a payout today for a broken collarbone I had in May2005 from some
accident insurance I had with BNSW - only $200 for the break but quite a bit
more from lost pay. Dressings for the grazing cost about $200 as well, which
I think they paid as well.

If a simple break usually no problems, bone grows back quickly in most
cases ( mine didnt, took 6 months to get a union, took the threat of an op
to get it to join up, but thats another story). Dont keep it in a sling too
long. Otherwise you can get a frozen shoulder. Do some rotator cuff
exercises for the shoulder joint with a rubber band as soon as you can to
avoid this. Doc in casualty told me to take sling off and staighten arm and
do some fist clenching a couple of times a day, to keep the arm muscles from
getting stiff.

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Red said:

I am suffering from the above - has any one any practical experience
as
to when I can expect to be back on the Windtrainer and then the road.
Jeff

Bleve said:

Paulie-AU said:

Lotte has done some serious bone braking in the name of cycling :eek:

Who's bones were they?

Definitely a nominee for POTY

Yeh I busted mine on bicycle. Bloody ridiculously painful.
My flatmate the selfish [censored] started complaining having to hear me groan
when I put my shirt on.
Bloody painful.

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I am suffering from the above - has any one any practical experience as
to when I can expect to be back on the Windtrainer and then the road.

I understand medical advise should take precedence , interested in real
life situations so my expectations aren't unrealistic.

Jeff

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Red said:

I am suffering from the above - has any one any practical experience
as
to when I can expect to be back on the Windtrainer and then the road.
Jeff

hope you heal quick Jeff. Out of curiosity how did you break it ???
Was it an exciting incident, or did you break changing channels with
the remote control ?

Details are sketchy , the handlebars are broken at the stem and the
front wheel is out of true. Not sure which is a cause and which is an
effect, suspect that the handlbars have broken. Alloy bars.
I am a bit surprised but saw Henk Vogels in a similar accident in a crit
race a couple of years ago in Perth.

I have face planted on the left side , motorist found me unconcious ,
apparently there for about 30 minutes, on the side of the road about 12
klms from Northam(WA) , needed stitches just above the eye where the
frames of my glasses have planted themselves , broken collarbone and
various patches of skin off, suffering withdrawal from riding.
The withdrawal is the hardest to deal with.

Intend getting on the Windtrainer tomorrow to maitain some sanity.

Have lurked ib a.b for a number of years and have been sypathetic to the
riding hazrds you guys suffer in the city and how relatively easy we
get it in the rural ares - rednecks are the biggest danger when you are
dressed in bright lycra , but we have our own unique problems due to the
lack of traffic.Only now realise some of them , strong case for those
little flashing LED's on helmets in case you do come off on the road.

Lady who found me rang the hospital next day to see how
i was and to confirm she had looked after my bike , then dropped it off
the next day at work. Reassures your faith in human nature.

Appreciate you interest and allowing me an excuse to tell the story .

I broke my right collarbone from shoulder-charging the ground after an
attempted gully jump (only realising at the last split second that I had a
gap to clear). The most painful part was the plaster room purgatory at
Canberra Hospital - an eight hour wait to be told "put it in a sling and
it'll heal in about 6 weeks". Thanks for the advice doc.

I bought a mag trainer and was cranking away (one-handed) within a week.
Six weeks later I was doing a Polaris Challenge with a 12kg pack.

In the first week or so you can expect the break to separate once or twice.
Don't worry. Perfect rest and immobility isn't advisable after a few days -
a bit of movement will actually help speed the healing process. I said a
bit of movement - modern dance and tossing the caber is out.

You'll find that buttons are evil, and sleeping in an upright position is
unnatural but preferable to other positions. You might also find simple
things like wiping your bum a little more challenging. Showering is a [censored]
too.

Grow a beard. Ditch the tie.

Red said:

I am suffering from the above - has any one any practical experience as
to when I can expect to be back on the Windtrainer and then the road.

I understand medical advise should take precedence , interested in real
life situations so my expectations aren't unrealistic.

Jeff

windtrainer can be a 'workaround'.
I got on the WT 1 week afte rbut mainly cos i woz so damn frustrated at not beiing able to ride after doing CBone. Jut do the setup to be more upright
(pretend you are wearing a flouro yellow jacket and stackhat...) and slowly adjust to more 'normal' pozzie.

reaching for anything outta the jersey pockets makes me whince now as i have screwed left shoulder with baseball, and now right shoulder with a commodore.

Oh, AND it_makes_me_reall_slow_uphills_and_crits*

* Dutchie's trademarked whine... I has nothing to do with the wine. honest...

On 2006-06-05, Red (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Details are sketchy , the handlebars are broken at the stem and the
front wheel is out of true. Not sure which is a cause and which is an
effect, suspect that the handlbars have broken. Alloy bars.
I am a bit surprised but saw Henk Vogels in a similar accident in a crit
race a couple of years ago in Perth.

I have face planted on the left side , motorist found me unconcious ,
apparently there for about 30 minutes, on the side of the road about 12
klms from Northam(WA) , needed stitches just above the eye where the
frames of my glasses have planted themselves , broken collarbone and
various patches of skin off, suffering withdrawal from riding.
The withdrawal is the hardest to deal with.

Farqing Damn!

30 minutes of unconciousness before being found? Damn!

Failing to see why the front wheel would buckle after the stem snapped
-- you just come off to the side, you don't go crashing into trees
usually.

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Have lurked ib a.b for a number of years and have been sypathetic to the
riding hazrds you guys suffer in the city and how relatively easy we
get it in the rural ares - rednecks are the biggest danger when you are
dressed in bright lycra , but we have our own unique problems due to the
lack of traffic.Only now realise some of them , strong case for those
little flashing LED's on helmets in case you do come off on the road.

Was it at night? So you just had the light on your bike? Yeah, I'd
say put one on the helmet, just in case you separate from the bike, it
ends up in a ditch, and you end up lying on the road.

--
TimC
Stapp's (of Murphy's law fame) Law: the universal aptitude for
ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

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Quoted message said:

I am suffering from the above - has any one any practical experience as
to when I can expect to be back on the Windtrainer and then the road.

I understand medical advise should take precedence , interested in real
life situations so my expectations aren't unrealistic.

Jeff

My collarbone story is having a fracture on the left side in which the two
main bits finished up being separated by a couple of centimetres with a
couple of bone fragments in the middle. The fracture was towards the
shoulder, not the spine. It was 97 days before I was allowed to get back on
the road (but who was counting?) The orthopod made a comment along the lines
that I couldn't spend my entire life wrapped in cotton wool. The actual
injury didn't heal properly for about 16 months, as it took quite a while
for the bone to form callus and create new bone to bridge the gap. You do
need to be careful if the break is in the shoulder area, as the brachial
plexus is there - a major bunch of nerves going into the arm. Hope your body
gets round to fixing things quicker than mine did.

Beavers

Red said:

I am suffering from the above - has any one any practical experience as to when I can expect to be back on the Windtrainer and then the road.

I understand medical advise should take precedence , interested in real
life situations so my expectations aren't unrealistic.

Have you tried riding on the trainer? Does it hurt? If not, go for it!
I did mine quite well if you know what I mean and I was back on the trainer in a couple of days. Riding in a car over bumps was worst..
(Dr Hippy is like Dr Nick.. not a real doctor.. all advice should be ignored as the fevered rantings of a post brain op crazy man..)

hippy