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About Hamilton's fracture
Since there was some discussion about it in this forum:
According to a journalist I heard yesterday on a TOUR dF TV program, Hamilton has a "green stick fracture". My wife, who works in a hospital, explained the details of it to me and I quickly forgot most of it rather fast :-) It seems to happen mostly to children and is compared to a twig that you break with your hands: the parts don't get seperated. Maybe someone else is better informed about this fracture than I am? Greets, Derk |
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 04:30:18 +0000, Tom Paterson wrote:
I might have read it wrong but that seems to be the gist of the Roche sentiment, that Tyler is taking a serious risk he shouldn't be taking. If Hamilton ends up on the podium in Paris, I doubt that he will have thought the risk was too great. -- David L. Johnson __o | Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front _`\(,_ | of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of (_)/ (_) | them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case. |
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A greenstick fracture is generally reserved for children whose bones are
still hardening. Thus their bones can (with sufficient force) bend like a green piece of wood and get cracked but not all the way through the width of the bone. Tyler had a double hairline fracture in an inverted 'V' shape. As the pieces of bone were not displaced at all, his clavicle was not unstable. Thus it was possible for him to ride but with a lot of pain. Yes he's taking painkillers but they won't help too much and all the strongest ones are banned for professional sportspeople. He is one tough (or crazy?) cyclist. -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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"James Annan" wrote in message
om... (Paul Southworth) wrote in message ... For Tyler, aside from dealing with the pain, I think his main problem is risk of falling again before it's healed, which could be a real disaster and would make him look like a fool for racing on it. Why? What could he possibly do worse than break it? A broken collarbone is hardly a career-threatening injury, as countless cyclists have shown. Because you and Tyler have some very important and large vessels and nerves running diretly beneath the clavicle. A fall on an already compromised bone might cause it to break and and possibly damage any of those structures. -- Robin Hubert |
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"patch70" wrote in message ... A greenstick fracture is generally reserved for children whose bones are still hardening. Thus their bones can (with sufficient force) bend like a green piece of wood and get cracked but not all the way through the width of the bone. Tyler had a double hairline fracture in an inverted 'V' shape. As the pieces of bone were not displaced at all, his clavicle was not unstable. Thus it was possible for him to ride but with a lot of pain. Yes he's taking painkillers but they won't help too much and all the strongest ones are banned for professional sportspeople. He is one tough (or crazy?) cyclist. I was thinking that it could be more of a problem for other riders because pain pills tend to slow your reflexes and dull your attention -- at least the opioids I have taken had that effect. Not a good thing in a tight pack or on a twisting descent. -- Jay Beattie. |
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James Annan wrote: (Paul Southworth) wrote in message ... For Tyler, aside from dealing with the pain, I think his main problem is risk of falling again before it's healed, which could be a real disaster and would make him look like a fool for racing on it. Why? What could he possibly do worse than break it? A broken collarbone is hardly a career-threatening injury, as countless cyclists have shown. From what I've heard, his collarbone is not separated and not broken through, only cracked. If he fell on it, there's a good chance it would separate and he might be having it screwed together. Furthermore sometimes people break a collarbone and find that it doesn't knit back together easily or quickly. In his current condition I predict he will heal up easily without surgery or other complications - no guarantee of that if he falls again. I agree it is not a career-threatening injury, and I'm not calling him stupid for riding the tour, just pointing out that if he really bashed it good he'd probably regret the decision. |
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I was thinking that it could be more of a problem for other riders
because pain pills tend to slow your reflexes and dull your attention -- at least the opioids I have taken had that effect. Not a good thing in a tight pack or on a twisting descent. -- Jay Beattie. Aspirin or an equivilent is the strongest he's allowed to take. Phil Brown |
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I read in the evening paper that the French Tour doctor (dr G. Porte) said
the clavicula had 2 cracks: 1 from last years Giro and 1 from his fall this year. Speaking about falls: I read Armstrong's TREK's chainstay broke when he fell. That didn't look like a serious enough fall to break a carbon chainstay I would say. Strange..... Greets, Derk |
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Derk wrote:
I read in the evening paper that the French Tour doctor (dr G. Porte) said the clavicula had 2 cracks: 1 from last years Giro and 1 from his fall this year. Speaking about falls: I read Armstrong's TREK's chainstay broke when he fell. That didn't look like a serious enough fall to break a carbon chainstay I would say. Strange..... Greets, Derk Iban Mayo rode over the back of LANCE's bike while falling. -- -- Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall "I'm not proud. We really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security." --Microsoft VP in charge of Windows OS Development, Brian Valentine. |
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