Raise your hand if you've ever broken your collar bone skiing?

t4thoroski

t4thoroski

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Sooo many people have broken their collar bone skiing. almost everyone one i know whos skied for a while have done something to their collar bone. i've also seen 5 or 6 people break theirs skiing. i also am a victim on this as i cracked my collar bone at the end of the march break. it was only a crack so i was still able to carry out the ski season in ontario to it's very end under pain killers.. haha.

if you've broken yours before leave a post
 
who cares about breaking your collar bone. It is one of the least serious injuries skiers get. My buddy broke his collar bone and scapula and was back skiing six weeks later. Knee and ankle injuries are months at a time
 
it depends on how bad you break it. i broke my real bad where my collar bone was sticking like straight up alsmost coming out the skin. i wasnt back to 100% till like 2or 3 months
 
come talk to me when your collar bone in in three pieces and coming out of the skin. i had surgery on mine and was out for over three months.
 
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meee. broke it right at the joint. so basically broke my shoulder (i guess?). 5 weeks in a sling or else surgery. no more sling now, and i can just barely lift my arm over my head.
 
i dislocated mine and tore all the tennons surrounding it...apparently would have been better just to break the damn thing...
 
Yeah, I still have the biggest lump on my shoulder from when I did mine in Mammoth. It was on the money booter at the bottom of the park...landed upside down on a backflip on the first day of my five day vacation....sucked real bad. It was definitely the most painful injury of all my injuries: broken back, torn ACL, hyper extension of both knees, chipped tail bone, major concussion. I still feel the nerve effects of it being broken 4 years later.

A GREAT way to not break it is to wear padding. Go to www.skeletools.com and look at that stuff. I have had it for 3 years and I have avoided soooo many injuries from wearing the top and bottom piece. They provide an amazing under layer when it is cold too. Everyday last year in mammoth I only wore a t-shirt and the pads and I was fine. Gives you a lot of piece of mind knowing that if you fall you are protected. Totally worth it!
 
bad idea. i broke mine skiing, got drunk one night maybe 2 weeks later, tried to hop my fense and bailed, broke it again, and a week after that i was drunk yet again, and decided to have a race with one of my buddies and bailed YET AGAIN on the pavement and broke it a third time far worse than it was originally. shitty..

my advice, let your wounds heal in full before you decide to fuck around and avoid more serious injury.
 
Well, considering its one of the most painful injuries you can endure without seriously fucking yourself up, its a big deal.

Me too, snapped it in half, 12 week recovery.
 
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