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  • Trailcentres and their nearest A&E – is there a list?
  • waspfactory191
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    Just to balance things a little, the first nurse was genuinely concerned that Glentress is just creating the opportunity for fractures, to people who otherwise would be OK. The x ray nurse was more sanguine. The medic was fine too, she patched me up, gave me some medication and copies of the x rays and advised that I see a consultant asap.

    Anyway, thanks for your contributions on A&E locations guys. Much appreciated. I’ll arrange to post up a list, which can be added to/corrected, asap. Not too sure about the A&E location that boxelder is referring to though … 😉

    nsbikescore1 – Yes, our paths did cross. I was at the check-in as they wheeled you in on a trolley. It looked very serious and it was a relief to see you as you departed with “just” a broken collarbone. At least you broke yours on a proper red route. I did mine playing on the table tops in the Glentress Freeride Park. Doh! I hope the laser surgery went well today. How long before you can ride again?

    mightymarmite
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    @nsbikescore1 Highly recommend going to see Brian Simpson http://www.physioclinic.net for recovery treatment. I broke my left collarbone right in the centre. 1 inch displacement without shards in August last year. A&E did simple sling and drugs. Broke it on the saturday then went down to Doc Simpson on the Wednesday, had both Laser and Magnetic Pulse in same sitting and also had a Cross Brace fitted by him. Most uncomfortable thing on the planet to wear but pulled the bones into alignment, and was starting to knit within three weeks. Also apply as much Comfreys (known as bone knit) on your shoulder as you can !!!! Now very little side effects bar camelback straps after long days. Best advice … don’t rush the recovery.

    Regards A&E’s, visited Cannock Chase last week for first time and noticed every marker post had Nearest A&E details, plus grid reference on them. Good approach.

    IanB
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    Wales’ A&E’s are listed here: http://www.wales.nhs.uk/ourservices/directory/Hospitals
    Takes a little bit of interpretation as only lists hospital names and not the towns they are in.

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    FunkyDunc
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    Just have a think about whats wrong though.. if its a simple cut that needs a couple of stitches the local A&E will be ok.

    If some thing broken might be worth a drive to the nearest tertiary hospital where theorectically they will have the better surgeons etc. Thats not to say you dont get good staff at smaller hospitals, its just all the cutting edge stuff is done at the big ones.

    However – do bear in mind that the local A&E should in theory be used to dealing with mtb injuries.

    nsbikescore1
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    @wasp – yes I was very glad that my injury wasn’t more serious, I was frightened that I’d done something to my neck. Glad you are on the mend, will you be back to conquer the freeride park then?

    I went to the fracture clinic today and just came out very upset and confused when they started talking to me about having it plated despite saying there was a 80-90 percent chance of a good bone unite without surgery.

    I’m booked into brian simpson’s clinic tomorrow, I’m nervous about the results and dont want to do anything to make things worse – @mighty, would you mind me pm’ing you any questions I think of about the treatment?

    codybrennan
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    Hang on a sec Hels. There was never any mention of MTB’ers being refused in the comments made by NHS staff in any of the above posts.

    waspfactory191
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    mightymarmite – Forgive my ignorance, but what do you get from Laser and Magnetic Pulse treatments? Do they fuse the bone and muscle?

    How do you know if you need it? I’ve just had a sling on for a few days and am letting the collarbone heal of it’s own accord.

    btw – A&E details noted on every marker post at Cannock Chase is a great idea!

    debaser
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    After I borked myself on the downhill track at Ae I my GP refered me to the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary for an xray.

    They asked where I was riding when I sustained the injury. Had it occured at Glentress my injury would have been recorded in the ‘Glentrauma’ book but since it happened at ‘Ae&E’ it didn’t have to be noted anywhere. Looks like there are being fairly rigourous injury stats being compiled for glentress but not elsewhere.

    The radiographer was a mountainbiker himself so he was fairly sanguine about the number of injured folk he saw, but I have met some A&E staff who’ve been pissed off with the number of mtb accidents they have to deal with. However, I think they’re still happier dealing with that than the pissed up and abusive detritus of an average Saturday night.

    Hope you have a swift recovery waspfactory.

    aracer
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    The ones I know about from direct experience 😉 :
    Malverns – Malvern Minor Injuries – proper hospital at Worcester.
    FoD – Dilke (Cinderford – Speech House road – dead convenient for the quarry near there) and Lydney Minor Injuries. Got taken from Lydney to Gloucester for surgery, but couldn’t be sure that was the nearest proper hospital.
    When I was in Malvern having stabbed myself in the leg with a Stanley knife I had a good chat and the nurse reckoned they got a fair amount of MTB customers in the summer, but just as many walkers. Never got any feeling that as an MTBer I was wasting their time at Lydney or Gloucester – on my ward at Gloucester a couple of old boys with smoking inflicted injuries!

    Stoatsbrother
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    And for the soft southerners like me… From Swinley – the A&E and CT scanner at Frimley Park is not too far – as I found out 3 weeks ago 😳

    marty
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    Looks like there are being fairly rigourous injury stats being compiled for glentress but not elsewhere.
    Probably related to this:
    http://emj.bmj.com/content/28/4/274.abstract

    hels
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    I never said there was Mr Brennan – just adding my experience to a wide ranging discussion, I think it adds to the flavor.

    t’internet forum innit.

    scruff
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    For Cannock Chase-

    A&E
    Stafford Hospital
    Weston Road
    Stafford
    ST16 3SA
    Tel: 01785 257731

    If its not serious this is generally quicker >

    Minor Injuries Unit (8am-midnight)
    Cannock Chase Hospital
    Brunswick Road
    Cannock
    WS11 5XY
    Tel: 01543 572757

    mightymarmite
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    The resonance pulse and laser promotes the bone growth. Its stimulates the formation of chondroblasts between the bone ends. This is like the girders on a bridge, then all the osteoblasts get to work weaving new bone (basically a great big lump of it) then over time the osteaclasts reshape the bone into some form of normality. Its a bit “out there” according to some but he’s had thousands of clients throughout the years and specialises in this type of injury (including motocross). He’s a good bloke as well which helps.

    The cross chest sling issued by the hospital is a complete waste of time, its there for pain management more than anything. The cross brace basically pulls yours shoulders back from behind, and helps hold the bones in alignment so they can start to fuse, painful as anything and I basically laid awake for the first four days and cursed it to hell for the following four weeks … but it did its job.

    Re surgery, research the different techniques. The majority of surgery over here seems to be the plate approach, which requires open surgery, drilling more holes in the bones plus potentially removal and a few associated issues. A couple of friends back in New Zealand have recently had a procedure whereby a steel “skewer” is inserted through the length of the collar bone via a small incision on the head of the shoulder, lines everything up, and provides support without drilling extra holes etc in the process. They were up and about in 2 days with simple R&R recovery process. If you google “dual-trak clavicle screw” will give you an idea.

    I didn’t go the surgery route as my displacement was corrected through manipulation, and managed to keep it fairly well aligned throughout the healing process.

    Defo PM me if you want to ask anything specific, but as a caveat every collarbone injury has different issues, dependant on number of breaks, displacement and general health so what works for one may not work for another.

    BigJohn
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    I was with a mate at Penmachno and he fell and cut his eyebrow. A fair bit of blood, but no major problem. A couple of stera-strips (which I now carry) would have fixed it.

    Unfortunately a passer-by saw it, panicked, and called 999. We didn’t know. We saw the helicopter and 4×4 ambulance and wondered who they were for. When we got back to the car park, a conventional ambulance was pulling up, saw Kev with blood down him and told him he was the victim who they thought was wandering around the forest, close to death.

    Kev asked them if they could have a look the cut and do a roadside repair, but they wouldn’t get out and enticed him into the ambulance, wherereupon they effectively kidnapped him and said to me “follow us”. We had no idea where they were going, until we arrived an hour later at Bodelwyddan hospital, nearly 30 miles away. And then we realised why – the ambulance drivers got to sit in the warm, drinking tea, until Kev got seen by a doctor.

    deadkenny
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    And for the soft southerners like me… From Swinley – the A&E and CT scanner at Frimley Park is not too far – as I found out 3 weeks ago

    Likewise, doing it myself on the 9th. Frimley Park is a great place, very close, and the ICU + CT scanner especially are well run.

    Ambulances can attend reasonably easily at the car park and some can get down the fire roads, and air ambulance is an option also.

    zokes
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    the nearest to penmachno & the marin is Bangor A&E, a truly depressing place.

    Well, as an ex-local, they’ve done a pretty good job of patching me and friends up on far too many occasions. Not the best hospital in the world, but a damned sight better than Bolton General(ly useless)…

    I was with a mate at Penmachno and he fell and cut his eyebrow. A fair bit of blood, but no major problem. A couple of stera-strips (which I now carry) would have fixed it.

    I had this there (got a bit jump-happy on the descent before the switchback climbs) – YG staff just used superglue(!)

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