Ugh
Unless I have surgery this clavicle will never glue itself back together. Sigh. I do seem to have full strength in that shoulder, I do have full range of motion (and don’t need physical therapy), and the annoying low-level ache isn’t severe enough to worry about, so the prospect of taking myself offline for a few months with surgery is even less appealing than it was right after I was hit, but it’s kind of annoying that I’m now stuck with two mangled – but still fully functional as long as I don’t try to sleep on my side – shoulders.
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I would imagine that it’s more likely to separate now that the AC ligaments aren’t able to do their traditional job of sacrificing themselves to preserve the CC ligaments. And then I strongly suspect I’d need surgery because the longer section of the bone would end up trying to burrow around the now separate distal end.
Modulo that happening, I suspect that my left shoulder will be more durable if I lose muscle tone because the CC ligaments are still there. My right (separated) shoulder, on the other hand, well… if I wasn’t losing muscle tone because I was in the process of dying I’d CERTAINLY keep losing it with the 4-6 months enforced inactivity that I’d need with a ligament transplant.
That looks rough.
My perma-broken thing is the connection between my floating ribs on one side and my sternum; can’t be fixed, and if I manage to do the wrong thing it hurts extravagantly. This gets worse in frequency and intensity as I age and get less fit. (I’m just going to assume those are correlated.)
I’d be wondering about what happens if you land on it again/get hit again, and what the stability prognosis is in later life as your muscle tone necessarily diminishes. (Or if you get laid up with a bad cold for a couple months.)