This isn’t really a training question, although feel free to give training answers, so I thought this was the right place for this:
How many of you have broken yer clavicle?
I broke mine in a motorcycle accident, opted-out of surgery. It’s healed up nice a strong, but left me with a major bump. I have full range of motion, but my shoulders definitely are not “even”.
I’m curious, especially for the guys going for aesthetics, if any of you have had any problems, or found any solutions for “evening things out” a little.
I mean, anytime I do a lift that involves both arms (you know, like most of them) I’m doing it a little differently on each side, hitting things slightly differently by virtue of my right-side being slightly out-o-whack.
Comments, thoughts, experience welcome.
Anyone make it big in the BB world with a deformed clavicle?
I broke mine a few years ago snowboarding, although the doctor was concerned about the sharp bone pushing against my skin I let it heal naturally, I have a bump that I don’t care about.
I catch myself contracting my shoulder sometimes, then relaxing it when I notice, don’t know why I still do this, its like I’m still trying to nurture it or something, and sometimes I can crack/crunch it without pain, hope it doesn’t cause problems when I’m old.
The general idea is that the healed clavicle is stronger than the original because it heals thicker, mine kind of shattered into a few pieces which they said was a good thing because it created more surface area around the break, producing a thick bone.
If it affects your training do uni-lateral exercises instead.
I’m sure it effects my training, even something like a deadlift, I can look in the mirror and see that my shoulders are slightly off, so I’m actually compensating holding one side “higher” to keep the bar parallel to the deck (if that makes sense).
I’m just curious if the really well developed people find it problematic, especially for aesthetics, or if the body’s tendency towards symmetry overcomes a slightly asymmetrical form.
I broke mine but it happend directly in the middle of the bone. So neither the sternum nor the ac joint was able to pull on it enough to move it. It healed fine and there is no visible diffeerence. I can barely feel the indentation anymore. Did you tell you ortho guy that you lift weights while discussing surgery? What side of the bone did the break occur?
No I didn’t. It’s been almost four years now. It’s healed well, but there’s a lot of overlap, so a nice large bump. It’s on the right side, break was right in the middle. Only a couple cm of shortening, the bone is finally “smoothed” out, so not more jagged edges, put still a bump.
Just anytime I’m lifting facing a mirror I can see that my shoulders (and by extension my arms), are doing things slightly differently to compensate.
The whole behavior of the movement in your shoulder girdle changed when you broke the clavicle and it healed different. Therefore also the behavior of the muscles related to the the side of the former fracture. This will affect your body and you in the way the muscle will grow and the way you’ll have to train.