All About G

Finally, after two years of brain-wracking. Finally, after getting confusion from every single doctor. Finally, after researching and trying to figure it all out, we’ve finally discovered what the problem is with my clavicle.

Mom was looking into bent clavicles, and discovered this. It’s known as a “bowing” or “bowed” fracture.

It’s not common in people my age, but what happens is the bone bends from a compression force. There isn’t a visible fracture; instead there are micro-fractures along the concave of the bend in the bone. Logically, this kind of thing is way more common in younger children since their bones aren’t fully developed like an adult, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible for a young adult to get a bowing fracture as well.

My chiropractor once told me that bones are fully hardened until a person is around 19-20 years old. The bend occurred when I was 17, so maybe what happened was that my clavicle was just soft enough to bend. The symptoms of the case you read above match mine perfectly; deformity in the bone, tenderness only where the deformity is, surrounding joints are unaffected, and I still have a full ROM and perfect sensation. This explains so much for me, especially the question of why it hasn’t healed. A bent bone can’t heal back to normalcy since the fractures are microscopic. I don’t think it can really heal at all since the bone is still bent. Take a look at the clips and the pics that I put up so you can see for yourself…

Sorry about the awkwardness of the video clip. It’s a bitch trying to tape yourself with barely any reference as to where you’re pointing the camera. But, if you pay attention, you’ll see that there’s a very clear difference between my right clavicle and my left clavicle. You’ll see them better in the pics below:

(in order: frontal view *the image is a reverse reverse, so that means the left clavicle is on the left side of the pic*; left clavicle, right clavicle)

So you can tell which one’s my left (the deformed one), right? If not, then you’re really blind.

Wanna know the best part? You can’t reduce something like this, especially if you’re around my age. You’ll usually need surgery to correct it. And, isn’t that what I’ve been telling everyone from the start? I only blogged about it two posts ago (refer to Referrals, Referrals, More Fucking Referrals for more info). It sorta makes me want to smack several people around.

As for the cause of a bowing fracture, typically it’s a longitudinal/compression force, like I said before. Now I don’t know if you know this about me, but I’m quite intense when it comes to sports. And, especially in contact sports, I’m downright aggressive. I ram into things all the time, particularly with my shoulder. I do remember one of many times I was, for example sprinting to save a volleyball, and not really paying attention to where I was going, and I slammed into the wall. Luckily it was padded. But it was most likely one of those instances, or maybe an accumulation of those kinds of incidences, that caused the bowing fracture. Usually it would be the type of thing to cause a fracture, but because what I ran into was padded, the fractures were microscopic instead.

Sooooooo… who was acting like my opinion wasn’t valid? Who was saying that orthopedic surgery probably wasn’t the answer? Yea, well, to all of you idiots who think I don’t know what I’m talking about just because I don’t have those extra letters after my name like you do, I told you so. Maybe that’ll teach you to not disregard what I have to say.