Clavicle Dislocation Surgery and Recovery

I had a very different kind of clavicle break last year, and was fortunate that the recovery was relatively straightforward (if painful). But I got a lot of useful information from the articles and literally hundreds of comments on Hans Kellner's clavicle site:

http://www.hanskellner.com/archives/2004/05/20/what_to_expect_from_a_broken_clavicle.html

My swimming experience was the opposite of yours. I was getting fairly frequent shoulder numbness, until I started swimming, and then it seemed to go away.

Good luck!

i separated my clavical and dislocated my arm last year in a bike crash. i did not have surgery or PT. i kind of wish i had of had surgery because my clavical sticks out now. It took me a month to get back to the pool and about 4 months before it didn't feel awkward or painful anymore.

from my experience, and without reading the articles above. I would say that after surgery your muscles, bones, and ligaments are not in the exact spot they were before the wreck. So your shoulder had to relearn all of it's ROM from a new position. With the muscles being in different positions i would imagine the learning curve is longer. make sense? My swimming motion was very awkward at first because it wouldn't move like my muscle memory wanted it to. It's been over a year and i still feel discomfort if i do push ups or bench press, fwiw.