Anyone have experience with this? Level 4 rupture non-surgical. Doc/Everything online says 3-6 months before returning to activity with no risk, that seems like overkill to me... but I'm not a doctor. Just wondering if anyone else has tried to return to snow sooner than advised with a similar injury & how it went
HELP!!! I RUPTURED MY SPLEEN
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DirtYStylE
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No. There is not a way to make a spleen heal faster. You need to wait. Or risk blowing it up
ParkRx
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Some things to consider:
"More than 90 percent of secondary splenic "ruptures" occur within 10 days following the initial trauma; most of the remainder occur within two weeks"
"Resumption of normal activities — Upon discharge, patients are typically restricted from participation in high-risk activities such as skiing, mountain biking, skydiving, wrestling, contact sports, military combat, and vigorous sexual intercourse for a period of up to three months. While there are no clinical studies to support this duration, one assumes that repeat trauma to the fragile, healing spleen could lead to re-injury [54]. In one retrospective review, healing was demonstrated radiographically within two months of injury in 80 percent of patients; however, grade V injuries were excluded in this study."
This paper is pretty lit:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1097/01.ta.0000187652.55405.73
"More than 90 percent of secondary splenic "ruptures" occur within 10 days following the initial trauma; most of the remainder occur within two weeks"
"Resumption of normal activities — Upon discharge, patients are typically restricted from participation in high-risk activities such as skiing, mountain biking, skydiving, wrestling, contact sports, military combat, and vigorous sexual intercourse for a period of up to three months. While there are no clinical studies to support this duration, one assumes that repeat trauma to the fragile, healing spleen could lead to re-injury [54]. In one retrospective review, healing was demonstrated radiographically within two months of injury in 80 percent of patients; however, grade V injuries were excluded in this study."
This paper is pretty lit:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1097/01.ta.0000187652.55405.73
Ruptured my spleen two seasons ago. Took me about 4 months to be back on the snow with no risk. I was advised to do basically nothing, as even a small impact in the area around your spleen can re-rupture it pretty easily(especially right after it happened). Wrap yourself up in bubble-wrap until then
HuumeHippi
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13989831:sauceboss420 said:
Is there a time not to be stoned?
WoFIowz
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Op how stupid are you? Did your doctors fail to explain the seriousness of a ruptured speen and the medical emergency if it happens again? Do you want to die? Listen to your doctors and quit being like every other moron in America who thinks an internet forum or social media is a better source of information.
freestyler540
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13990053:Session said:
Proceeds to be a dick to everyone repeating the same advice given by the physician
13990058:DragonS said:Yeah bruh I know the risk lol. already went thru it once... I ski at a small resort with a top ranked medical facility 30 minutes down the road so I'm not really worried about dying. STOP BEING MEAN 2 ME I JUST WANNA SKI
Skiing isn't going anywhere.
VT_scratch
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Damn that sucks. One of my best friends ate it hard onto a cat-track at whistler in 2011 and ruptured his spleen. He didn't really know and then the pain kept getting worse and he went to ski patrol. Long story short he ended up getting rushed from Whis to a hospital in vancouver as his spleen was emptying blood into his stomach, which then expanded so much it looked like he was preggo. They cut him open last min, blood everywhere, and he's very lucky he's alive today. Obviously they removed his spleen and I believe he has to be very careful with infections and his immune system as the spleen does a good job of cleaning out toxins from your body? I may be slightly off on that last part. But yeah intense stuff, he's pretty scarred from that situation to this day.
13989772:Sharko said:
Just reminded me that I'm way to sober to try and give medical advice on the internet.
AbiH
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topic:DragonS said:
Listen to your doctor, ruptured spleen is no joke, if you reinjure yourself there is a very very good chance that you’ll bleed to death internally before they can do anything about it... The risk isn’t worth it.
Not to mention if they throw you in a heli those rides are 15k and up...