ANY consideration of injury to the clavicle must take into account certain fundamentals. In the first place, absence of the clavicle is not incompatible with normal function of the shoulder girdle.

A prospective, multicentre cohort study of 167 patients in eight emergency departments with clavicle injury. Emergency physicians with ultrasound training performed diagnostic POCUS. They obtained ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The clavicle plays a protective role in the upper body. When it is considered in that way, the need to treat ...

OBJECTIVE:Neonatal clavicle fracture has been previously reported to occur in association with shoulder dystocia, suggesting liability on behalf of the obstetrician. However, clavicle fracture is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each year, one in a thousand people break their clavicle. The treatments have been debated endlessly. Here is our take. The clavicle is a key strut that stabilizes the shoulder. When stretched out to ...

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 ...