An Ode to the Collar Bone

Totes_Magotes

Totes_Magotes

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O collar bone, O collar bone...

I fucking hate you. Thanks for breaking and leaving me without skiing for 6 weeks. god fucking dammit. 2nd rodeo attempt of my life.... at least i got it on film
 
just did mine today. its in three pieces completetly detached from one another. one piece which should be horizontal is completely verticall
 
underrotated a backflip a tiny bit, caught my tips and slammed onto it. im trying to get pics up but i cant get them off the disc they gave me
 
the collar bone is a pussy ass bone, like 14 pounds of pressure to break or something. Like really? But at least it is upper body. I broke mine 2 years ago, thought it was the pits. Last year, broke my femur. Couldnt walk for 2 months. Lower body is waaaay worse. And muscle injuries are much worse than bone.
 
I think it takes about 7 lbs. but i broke mine in soccer, titanium plate and a few weeks and you'll be good as new.
 
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i tore ligaments in my sc joint today so basically dislocated my collarbone. i feel ya man
 
does anyone else that broke theirs get a pop on your collar bone everytime you move/breath/ turn? i'm getting about 5 pops every 10 seconds.. i'm gonna go crazy
 
no but when i move i can feel the pieces shift around. im not having much fun either haha. if i stay perfectly still it doesnt happen
 
This is really old... but I just broke mine Sunday, and does anyone have any opinions on whether surgery or letting it heal is a better option? I'm not pretending NS is a doctor, I've already been to the doctor, but they said my break is just on the fence, so I can choose either surgery to get a plate installed or leaving it to heal.. anyone have experience with either? I don't know which to pick.
 
I've broken both of mine. I just let them heal, and did some physical therapy, and they turned out fine. I think I lost a tiny bit of my range of motion in my right shoulder, but that's it.
 
I broke my collar bone last year and i was out for 3 months of phsyical activity. I had to get surgery, my collar bone came out of my skin ... it hurt like no other.
 
You guys don't even know...

Last season, doing a front flip, I was under rotating so I tucked up, then over rotated and landed too far forward while still in a tuck

my whole body compacted and my left knee hit my collar bone in it's strongest spot. It hit it so hard that I tore and twisted both my AC and SC. Here's the messed up part: my collar bone twisted and never came back. I still have a backwards bone, and probably will for life. There's nothing they can do for it, I've seen countless specialists too and had MRI's and the whole deal.

My left arm can't go straight over my head anymore and my back constantly hurts. It sucks more than anything. I also dislocated my shoulder and tore my rotator cuff in the same fall

now my shoulder, back, and neck all make nasty cracking sounds all the time too.

plus side:

- my left collarbone goes out instead of in. great party trick/ freaks girls out

- I can crack my neck exactly like Agent Smith in "The Matrix"
 
i broke mine in the same spot 4 times. now my left shoulder sits higher than the right but that is about it.
 
Broke my right one at PC in February, was on the fence too. Full displacement break, so would have healed with a bump. I got surgery on it two weeks after the break, after a military recommendation, so now in December I still have the plate on it. My recommendation, if you have the means to do it and no impending deadline I would get surgery asap. Ensures a 100% heal as opposed to the possibility of limited motion / strength with letting it heal on its own.
Plus bitches love the scar. LOVE it.
 
My roommate broke his playing soccer. I then felt his collar bone and its missing in one place, feels soo nasty!
 
a buddy of mine, whos one here but doesnt post much, has broken both of his collar bones combined something like 7+ times. shitty luck but everybody breaks shit, consider yourself lucky you're only out for 6 weeks.
 
personally i would get surgery if you can. i have a friend who broke his and didnt and know a year or two later he might have to. it healed weird with his tendons and the tendon keeps popping the collarbone out of place. about ten months after surgery i am really glad i got it. no range of motion lost, and my shoulder is as strong as it ever was.
 
yeah getting it fixed is a good idea. especially if insurance covers it. if it heals funny you'll have a funny shaped collarbone.
 
no, but every once in a while ill get a ridiculous shooting pain right through mine. shit sucks, it doesnt happen as much anymore, but the first 2-3 years after i broke it happened at least once a week, fuck broken collar bones.
 
been there done that, it's a minor inconvenience.
try rupturing your spleen, cracking your clav, tearing your ACL, then retearing it all in the course of just over a year
 
That ain't no season ender. 6 weeks sucks, but like people said, could be a lot worse.And for people considering surgery to fix it, make absolutely sure you don't need surgery if you opt out of it. A buddy of mine didn't get it, and he had a really bad break, where one bone went on top of the other one. Anyways, it healed like that, and after that his option was to either surgically rebreak it and correct it, or just shave down the lump (the protruding bone was digging in and giving him A LOT of pain) The rebreak would have been essentially back to square one, so he just got it shaved down and he now has a large, round lump in his collar bone. Doesn't give him any problems anymore, but it sure looks fucked up.
 
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