C1 fracture healing and prognosis?

@jnj59 thanks for asking! Just got back from a surf trip to Fiji and was able to surf waves up to 4-6 feet (even though spine doc said to keep it restricted to very small waves). I was cleared out of the neck brace about a month ago and have my final CT scan in 2 weeks. We'll see if the C1 has healed or if I'm going to have to live with a "fibrous union", but I do have probably about 70% of my pre-injury neck motion, but it's going to be a while to get back to 100%.

BTW, I did get on a "Wolverine Stack" (BPC-157/TB-500) for a month prior to the trip. It remains to be seen if it helped the bone heal until I get my next CT scan. My spine doc actual said even though there was no evidence that it helps, it wouldn't hurt to keep taking it.

Hi there. I had laminectomy 15 yrs ago so my trauma wasn't severe but nevertheless I broke my c1. My fracture looks like your anterior fracture and laminectomy looks like your posterior fracture so have about same support of c1 :/ did dr say that you could just live life and wait for it to heal? Did your 13 week ct scan show any union more so than the 9 week? Looks like the 9 week had no bone or fibrous adjoining. I am at 6 and half weeks in brace and just don't know what future holds ie certian surgery if it doesn't heal. Is the pain still there? I think mine is stable, don't see neurosurgeon til 9th tho to get mri/ct he did after er visit ct. Sounds like non union isn't a definite surgery?