collarbone rehab

[apeshape]

About 5 weeks ago I went squirrelly and broke my collarbone at Whistler. After a minor setback the 2nd week where it further displaced on me its started to heal up to the point where I have 90% mobility back. I'm weak as hell on that side now so I plan to get the NSMB mangler, PT_Colin on my case in about 2 weeks. Right now all I have is a chunk of elastic tubing and I'm doing curls and simple vertical lifts. In the mean time I was wondering if there were some low impact exercises that other people who broke their shoulders up in the past knew about??

I'm going nuts watching the Collective and I MUST RIDE MY BIKE SOON so any help here would be cool.

[wheeler]

Hey i broke mine really good in august. Complete separation. I was back at work 4 weeks later. I never did any rehab jsut normal dayto day activities and it hasnt given me any problems.

[OptionaL]

just whatever you do, ride when its 100%

i broke my collarbone and i took my sling off and did various things and i don't think it healed very well. when im rotating my shoulder or when im lifting weights it sometimes feels wonky

[Sharon]

Swimming, Yoga, Tai Chi.

Anything that helps maintain shoulder mobility and is relatively low impact.

[PT-Colin]

Getting in the pool is the earliest and easiest activity for ya.
Getting the hand over head to do the crawl is gonna be tough until the down is fully healed but the deep water running motion standing in deep water swinging the arms forward/back up/down to shoulder height will help wake up the small muscles along with your pecs etc.

Whatya mean MANGLER?

[Chuck D. Railer]

i broke my right collar bone on Aline last sept. 5th complete separation in two places. it almost was throught the skin! torn rotator cuff muscles and broken mad max.
then three weeks later i was passenger in a van involved in an accident and the seatbelt displaced both fractures again!!!!! (sept 25) super grossssss
i missed six weeks of work (i'm a carpenter) and the muscles in my whole right shoulder/side were pretty shot from not moving for six weeks.
The fractures fused pretty well, but the didn't line up too well, so there's huge calcium deposits that kinda interfere with the muscles when they move over them, but i think that it'll become less of a prob with time.
I went lots to my chiropractor because my spine started to curve to the side from the sling, etc. that helped quite a bit.
I've also started seeing a massage therapist. He's tearing apart all the fused muscle layers that are in spasm right now. That helps lots, but MAN is it painful. He has me off the table at times!!! It feels way better after a treatment, though.
I'd say my shoulder is still only 85% and i think if i crashed hard on it right now i'd regret it.
I'm 36 so i guess i proved that my bones aren't as bendy as they used to be!! :agree:
It's gonna take a while to get it back, but not too long. My doc said the collar bone is the most frequently broken bone, and it also heals the easiest. My buddy who's almost 50 crashed and broke his collar bone and three of his upper ribs (ouch!), and now he's fine.(about three years later)
I was pretty much moving around and using it a bit six weeks after the second break, so you're almost there!

later
chuck d. railer

[apeshape]

Cool. Thanks for the feedback. I'll try and get some pool and stationary bike time in for sure.

Whatya mean MANGLER?
HEHE. You smile too much when yer bending people back into shape. I guess it should be de-MANGLER. A few of us tried to come up with a WWF name for ya and that was one of them. See ya in a few weeks for some de-mangling.