SpoogeMooge

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I broke my collarbone Thursday the 27th of March, now 3 days later the brace the doctors gave me doesn't seem to be doing its job. I can still hear and feel the bone moving. I assume that if the bone is still moving it will not properly heal. I'm seeing a specialist on tuesday. How long will I have to wait before it starts fusing together and are there any tricks to speed my recovery?
Thanks.
 

jaguar

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Tricks: take Calcium Hydroxyapatite from your health food store. It's low heat dried bone powder from cows raised with less antibiotics/hormones.
Also use magnets. I always use them for injuries and they always help. See my healing page linked below. Usually when people are slow to heal that tells me they aren't putting nutrition into their mouth, only flavor. How can a house be built without 2x4s and bricks? Good solid nutrition supplies your body with the building blocks for rebuilding destroyed tissue. But a problem arises when I say "nutrition". People think of the 4 food groups without giving any consideration to how the food is prepared. Most people only eat cooked food. Cooking destroys nutrients. For instance look at me. I've been a health nut for the last 25 years after having lost my health at age 20. I'm 45 and still kick young butt on the MX track. My two favorite nutrition boosters are raw egg yolk (the yellow part) and the herb Maca. Eww, yukk is what everyone thinks. But hey you can't argue with results. I had chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis, and scoliosis (side curvature of the spine). Not any more. Fresh fruits, raw vegetables (especially juiced), no beef, hardly any cheese, more grains, and listening to my body and doing cleanses when necessary to unclog the lymph/blood/intestines.
Oops I did it again. I talk too much. You probably just wanted to know what pill to buy. Well, anyway maybe someone will get inspired and go to the health food store and buy some books and educate themselves.
 

Mr. Mark

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I broke mine last November (high sided). The X-ray showed 4 pieces, big gaps. I panicked and went to two doctors. I figured I'd need surgery. It healed fine on its own. I wore a sling and a back brace but there are all kinds of reports that say the back brace is no better than the sling. I wore both for a month.
I tried taking calcium suppliments but they only made me constipated. 2-3 glasses of milk or dairy products is all your body needs. I had full mobility after 8 weeks. It feels completely normal now (4 months). It takes weeks for a fibrous mass to surround the break and begin to stabilize it. Don't worry. Keep it immobile and give it time. Listen to your doctor. Eat right.

Magnets?

Good luck.
Mark
 

Gary B.

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Welcome to the club. Do a search. There is tons of threads in here on the subject. You probably have lots of time to search now anyway. LOL!
 

bud

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Mine took a few days to join which worried me too. It turned out ok, except I wasn't gentle enough with it after it joined. That made the healing take longer.
 

Gary B.

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Mine was still klickin', klunkin' and grindin' two weeks after the break. Dr. said that it was nothing to worry about.
 

SpoogeMooge

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Thanks for your help guys. I'm still feeling some grinding 3 weeks after the fact. I was wearing a arm brace but now I have switcher back to the figure 8 device. It seems to give me more support. I'm getting x-rays on Tuesday at UPMC Sports Medicine, I hope they will shed some light.
 

Smit-Dog

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If you could do a search, you'd find a ton of great advice/info.

I wore figure-8 as tight as I could bear (raw scabs under the arms to prove it) for 6 weeks. Keeping it as stable as possible is the key. Being 38, the bones weren't healing as well as they should have, so at 8 weeks out doc prescribed a bone growth stimulator. Expensive ($4,000), but helped the bone heal faster. Wore the stimulator for 3 months. Overall a 5 month recovery time, but it was broken in 2 places, over a previous break 20 years ago.

If you are young you will heal faster. Don't push it! Once the bone glue sets in, the bones won't move/grind around as much, but it's very easy to re-break it. It will feel better, but it's only like rubber cement until the bone glue calcifies and turns to hard bone, which may take several months to a year.

I knew somebody who re-broke theirs at 3 months out by reaching quickly to swat a bee. Another guy with a broken CB was feeling great, so was shooting baskets. Reached up for a shot, and re-broke it.

Also, I feel that that the figure-8 helps to keep the bone aligned as much as possible. With just a sling your shoulder droops, and it will heal crooked like that.

Good luck!
 

Mike Hubert

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Contrary to popular opinion bones do not need to be imobilized to heal. They will slowly build a a sticky goo at the break site that will harden over time. I have broken 3 collar bones and never bothered with slings, or wrappings of any kind and they have healed fine, they look nasty but they healed fine. My Opthopedic Surgeon told me that collar bones left alone will heal strong at least 95% of the time, surgery actually reduces the healing odds if only done for cosmetic reasons.
 
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