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pandaen
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 Posted: Feb 05, 2010 9:52 am Post subject: Shoulder brace for boarding? |
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Hi everyone.
I experience a lot of trouble with my shoulders, when wakeboarding, kitesurfing and snowboarding. The doctors wants to give me surgery, but there's alot of waiting for it to become reality, so I hope i can get through this summer and maybe get the surgery in November/December.
So thus far I would like to get a shoulderbrace that can help prevent the dislocations, and i think I will keep using it even when my shoulder is fixed.
It is almost always my left shoulder that is the problem, so i think that if I fix that, the right one will be okay as well.
I hope you guys can help with some suggestions.
If you know where to buy these braces, I hope you know some pages that maybe are located in Europe, that it is alot of hassle to order from the US to Denmark
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dav1268
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| Posted: Feb 09, 2010 6:57 am Post subject: |
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I've had some issues with my shoulder as well so i've been wearing a brace for the last couple seasons. I got the one below and it seems to help quite a bit with out restricting my motion at all. I also wear a short sleeve rash guard over it to prevent the velcro from coming unstrapped on impacts.
http://www.mcdavid.be/products/?h=1&c=4&p=54
Thats the European site and i didn't see an option for shopping on it but hopefully it'll help as a starting point for your search... |
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Wazzy
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| Posted: Feb 09, 2010 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| Check out EVS, I know they have one my GF wears |
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Craig-R
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| Posted: Feb 11, 2010 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| pandaen, my friend used to dislocate his shoulder all the time so he created his own brace that prevented the shoulder from popping out. He had a jet pilot vest (but i'm sure any normal vest would work) and a cuff with about 6 inches of band connected to it. He would put his arm through the cuff, then tie the band to the clip for the life vest and it would keep his arm from raising up above his head... it worked very well. I'll try and make a crappy photoshop diagram because i just did a horrible job explaining it. |
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pandaen
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| Posted: Feb 11, 2010 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Craig-R wrote: | | pandaen, my friend used to dislocate his shoulder all the time so he created his own brace that prevented the shoulder from popping out. He had a jet pilot vest (but i'm sure any normal vest would work) and a cuff with about 6 inches of band connected to it. He would put his arm through the cuff, then tie the band to the clip for the life vest and it would keep his arm from raising up above his head... it worked very well. I'll try and make a crappy photoshop diagram because i just did a horrible job explaining it. |
Sounds like a smart idea, looking forward to seeing your drawing 
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Craig-R
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ok i'm no Da Vinci, but it's the best i could do in 10 minutes 
now that i'm looking at it, the band is actually the same thing as the life vest buckle, so it's another buckle that's tied around the life vest one, and then connected to a cuff for your arm.. in any case, it's worked wonders for him and he's a big wuss
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