philamena
Well-Known Member
As soon as you know where you are re the op, get a private physio who's a geek about shoulders. And do ALL of what they tell you to do, not just the bits that make sense and feel essential to restore the movement you need. You can end up quite wonky through favouring / subconsciously protecting an injured shoulder, and that can be tough to put right if it goes on long enough that your body changes its sense of 'straight', trust me!
I displaced my collar bone when I broke the ball of my humerus and it didn't reconnect, but to be honest the collar bone has never given me any problems really.
And the same as above - it wasn't until I broke the shoulder and had docs and physios looking at it that they pointed out I'd broken the collar bone before and never noticed, but it had reset not quite straight.
So sounds like every case is different. But would echo what's said above - what you want to avoid is the 'we'll wait 8 weeks to see if it sorts and if not we'll plate it' scenario.
I displaced my collar bone when I broke the ball of my humerus and it didn't reconnect, but to be honest the collar bone has never given me any problems really.
And the same as above - it wasn't until I broke the shoulder and had docs and physios looking at it that they pointed out I'd broken the collar bone before and never noticed, but it had reset not quite straight.
So sounds like every case is different. But would echo what's said above - what you want to avoid is the 'we'll wait 8 weeks to see if it sorts and if not we'll plate it' scenario.