Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The results of a recently presented study highlight clavicle fractures as indicators of increased mortality in ...

What is Clavicle Fracture / Broken Collarbone? Clavicle fracture or broken collarbone is a very common fracture that occurs in the young as well as the old. Despite its name, the collarbone or the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The treatment of displaced clavicle fractures has historically been mostly nonoperative. However, several recent ...

Your clavicle, or collarbone, is the long, thin bone that connects your chest to your shoulder. You have one on each side of your body. These bones help hold up your shoulders and allow you to move ...

The clavicle links the upper extremity to the appendicular skeleton and is stabilized by a series of strong ligaments medially and laterally. In the United States, clavicle fractures account for 5% of ...

Diagnosing clavicle fractures is usually not too difficult given the usual deformity that results from the injury. X-rays of clavicle fractures can look alarming due to how angulated the fractures can ...

Dr Kevin R Stone is a pioneer of advanced orthopaedic surgical and rehabilitation techniques to repair, regenerate and replace damaged cartilage and ligaments. The author was trained at Harvard ...

Q: My 14-year-old daughter broke her collarbone when she fell during a soccer game. How worried should I be? A: The clavicle (the medical name for the collar bone, there is one on each side of the ...

Historically, one of the few golden rules of orthopedics was that midshaft clavicle fractures did not need surgical repair. Literature published predominantly within the last 10 years has challenged ...