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Help! Broken collarbone!
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[QUOTE="nikki, post: 146994, member: 18126"] I broke mine last year - clean break... and I think - despite some of the other comments made - that the figure-8 brace should be worn quite regularly until you are healed. Reason being that it holds your shoulders back and you will heal up straighter and not hunched over. If you don't wear it - it will be natural to hunch forward on the broken bone side and you will heal that way! I wore my brace (as tight as I could stand it - we kept going tighter as I started healing some) for about 4-6 weeks. I was riding at 4 weeks and racing at 6. Maybe a little too early - but it's soooo hard to stay away :) I healed up really straight - you can hardly tell! I got bucked off the bike at Casey (Dirtweek location) and snapped it on the frozen ground. I was wearing an old, thin, and useless chest protector. I went out and bought a REAL one (Fox Airframe - great padding in the collarbone/shoulder area) two weeks after the crash. My fiancé also broke his in '99 (went over the bars in whoops and landed on side of shoulder) and he was not wearing a chest protector. He too got a Thor Aftershock chest protector while laid off for a few months. He did not wear his brace as much as he should have and the bones still haven't healed. When he moves his shoulder they move back and forth over and under one another. It's kinda disturbing! But he does have full strength back now (however that works). He was out for 2-2.5 months with his broken. [B]Question for all of you[/B] - how many people broke their collarbone while wearing a full-sized chest protector? [/QUOTE]
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