Collar bone healing youth

I'd make him wait just to be sure. Maybe a good test would be to see how much pain he has by pressing lightly on the healing part. If it's not too strong then of course there will be considerable pain.

Trust your Doc. BUT, take your child back when the time is up to check.

Phillip

Just to give you a frame of reference, regarding the healing rate. At the follow up visit to my orthopod, he said the same breaks that I had (metatarsals, the bones on top of your foot) would have healed in about 4 to 5 days on a baby less than a few months old. For adult, replace days with weeks.

Kids are amazing. :thumb:

Kids will heal much, much quicker than adults, but be patient to make sure it's fully healed, i.e. calcified and hard. Also, what was the break like? A hairline fracture, and complete breakage with a gap between the bones? How many breaks?

I broke mine in 2 places, with some gaps, and it was 4 months before I felt it was strong enough to go riding again. (I'm 38 - also broke it on the same side I broke at age 18).

The thing is, even though it feels fine, you can re-break it easily until it's completely calcified. I've heard many stores of guys who have re-broken their collabone, at 4-8 weeks out because they felt fine and couldn't wait. One re-broke it shooting a basketball, the other swatting a fly suddendly. Then you are essentially back to square one.

Your doc and x-rays know/reveal the real story, so go with those, not an anxious 6-year-old.

Good luck!

I've broke each of mine when I was a little kid. First time I was 8 and it was my right collarbone and I fractured it and had to wear that figure-eight brace thing for about 4-6 weeks I think. And then when I was 10, I broke my left side and I had to wait like 6 weeks as well I think. Best thing to do is to wait around 5 weeks or whatever your Doc tells you.