So today I found myself rolling with a purple belt, and a brown belt (owner of our gym and professional fighter). Well f’n-a if I didn’t come out a little banged up. My question is this:
During rolling with the purple belt I heard a loud pop from my collar bone/ area where collar bone meets shoulder joint. There is NO joint paint, but I’ll be damned if my collar bone isn’t sore as hell. When I try to pull my shoulders back/stick my chest out my collar bone kills me. Not unbearable but enough to make me stop. Should I be worried about a broken bone? It’s not sticking out of the skin, so I’m not going to a doctor; so don’t give me that shitty advice.
I have mat burn on my toes, tops of my feet, ankles, and spots on my fingers where other peoples fingernails dug out skin. I must not have tough skin, I know. How is this best treated? Just air it out? Put something on it, but don’t cover it up? I don’t want a damn infection and we’re going on week three of these being “open” sores after practice.
lol, i feel your pain brotha, cant offer any advice about number 1 except that going to a docter is never shitty advice where an injury is concerned, maybe expensive and unrealistic, but not a bad idea.
tell your training partners to cut their fucking nails if your skin is getting dug out in that many spots…i tend to put neosporin on my open abrasions…it would suck to get staph
[quote]Beershoes wrote:
So today I found myself rolling with a purple belt, and a brown belt (owner of our gym and professional fighter). Well f’n-a if I didn’t come out a little banged up. My question is this:
During rolling with the purple belt I heard a loud pop from my collar bone/ area where collar bone meets shoulder joint. There is NO joint paint, but I’ll be damned if my collar bone isn’t sore as hell. When I try to pull my shoulders back/stick my chest out my collar bone kills me. Not unbearable but enough to make me stop. Should I be worried about a broken bone? It’s not sticking out of the skin, so I’m not going to a doctor; so don’t give me that shitty advice.
I have mat burn on my toes, tops of my feet, ankles, and spots on my fingers where other peoples fingernails dug out skin. I must not have tough skin, I know. How is this best treated? Just air it out? Put something on it, but don’t cover it up? I don’t want a damn infection and we’re going on week three of these being “open” sores after practice.
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sissy! j/k…
it sounds like you might have broken your collar bone, to me… i’d get it looked at, since rest is really the only thing you can do for it.
i second the advice for Neosporin or some other antibiotic creme…i’m amazed at all the weird-ass skin issues i got from BJJ. i’d suggest bleach on the mats before and after rolling, too…
Am I the only one who’s gonna suggest wearing wrestling shoes? I realize that they make you a little more susceptible to foot/ankle locks and some BJJ schools don’t allow them. But, if they are allowed they’ll pretty much cure (or at least prevent you from developing any new) the mat burns on your feet.
After that I’d also advise going to see a doc about the collar bone, and using neosporin/bacitracin/some other antibiotic cream on your already existent wounds. And some antifungal soap, like kmc said, would be a good idea as well.
1- Go to the doctor. You don’t know what it is, that’s the worse place to be in, or you could wait it out and see if it heals itself. I’m telling you to go to the doctor but I know I’d probably just ice it and keep going.
2- Spray yourself down with lysol after you train, burns but shrug gets the job done
3- I recommend you have yourself a nice cup of STFU
On number 1: I can only say go to a doctor, I realize the cost it brings in America but still would advise a doctor to take a look at it. If it’s nothing too bad, he’ll give advice and how to easily help it heal.
If it is really bad, he’ll help you out… I see a WIN-WIN except for the cost over there in the States.
number 2: I use Fucidin creme, an antibiotic creme comparable to neosporin I think.
For mat burn and small cuts from fingernails and toenails use “New Skin”, but don’t get the spray as the tip clogs up quickly. Get the brush on applicator. It’s a liquid that you brush on open wounds (very small ones, mind you) and it drys to form and invisible bandage. Will not rub and has anti-biotics within it. Anything else comes off during rolling. Great stuff.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Go to a DR.
the AC joint and collar bone are pretty easy to bang up
I did the collar bone more then once.
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I remember when I did my collarbone. I went to the physio. She told me to stop lifting, stop boxing and do superslow push-ups. I ignored all her advice, took some time off and then went back training. I later heard about her “trying out” acupuncture on some girl.
Later on I went to the doctor to get a boxing medical. This guy had worked with loads of sportspeople. I asked him about it. He said, THAT? I see that every day. Half the South African rugby team had it. Don’t worry about it.
