Re: Ouch

Jay
I have a 3rd degree separation of my shoulder, basically the end of my
collar bone is not attached to my shoulder and it floats around. My kids
think it's cool that I can shrug my shoulders and the bone moves up and
down. How long did you go until having the surgery? Why was it so bad? I
assume they cut 1/2" or so off the end of the collar bone.
Thanks 
Paul

Jay C wrote:
> 
> "DirtCrashr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > Yuk.  Yeh I figure'd I recognize a real broken arm.  This is shoulder
> > and rotation pain.  Hard to get around back...nevermind, JayC alreay
> > knows...but not from ME!
> 
> Touche'.  Check to see if you have a bump on the top of your shoulder, where
> your collar bone connects to it.  If you do, that's a telltale sign of an AC
> seperation - the ligament that connects your collarbone and scapula gets
> torn.  It is caused by a downward blow to the shoulder - like when you do a
> shoulder-plant into the ground.  Most hockey players have AC seperations
> from bashing into the boards with their shoulders.  If that is what you
> have, you're stuck with the bump, so you're career modeling strapless bras
> is over, but that's typically about the extent of it unless the scapula and
> collarbone start banging into each other and get arthritic.  That's what
> happened to me so I had to get mine fixed, which I don't recommend to
> anybody inless you REALLY need it.
> 
> Jay