Show us your biking scars!

[Xrayted]

DebW - one word

Ouch!!

Ok, I lied, here's some more... That is a very nasty clavicular fracture. I can only assume they went in and screwed a plate on there. Those are some of the most painful fx's to have too. There's just no way to completely immobilize them until healed. Now look who's tough!

[DebW]

DebW - one word

Ouch!!

Ok, I lied, here's some more... That is a very nasty clavicular fracture. I can only assume they went in and screwed a plate on there. Those are some of the most painful fx's to have too. There's just no way to completely immobilize them until healed. Now look who's tough!

Nope. No surgery. No plates. No screws. It's healed in that configuration, though the sharp edges have rounded themselves off. Actually, the doc told me that it would heal better because it was so smashed up - something about pulverized bone working like a graft. He actually said to me "The only reason you would want to have surgery on this is if you are a big-time backpacker." I let the collarbone heal as it was and modified my backpack (sock on right shoulder strap to hold some foam that evens out the offset in the bone). The collarbone healed up fine, my torn deltoid still bothers me, and recovering from frozen shoulder sucked big time. Recovery was 5-6 months with PT. Sounds small compared to what Xrayted went through.