Introduction A 28-year-old surgical resident presents to your fracture clinic having fallen off his mountain bike going down a steep hill. He sustained an isolated, closed neuro-vascularly intact mid-shaft fracture of his left clavicle seen in Fig 1. Medically, he is otherwise completely well. On examination, there is an obvious clinical deformity with a droopy, protracted shoulder. The left sh...

Objective To compare superior versus anteroinferior plating for displaced midshaft clavicular fracture in elderly patients. Methods We retrospectively compared the functional result, parameters, and perioperative course of displaced midshaft clavicular fracture in 42 patients >60 years treated with a 3.5-mm reconstruction plate placed superiorly versus anteroinferiorly. Results Groups were simi...

BACKGROUND Clavicular fractures are common injuries. The aim of this study is to present results of surgical treatment of midclavicular fracture managed with open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) with superior reconstruction plating. This study involved 34 patients, with mean age of 31 years, with completely displaced midclavicular fractures, 28 on the right and 6 on the left, stabilized ...

Eleven patients with a chronic acromio-clavicular joint disruption underwent acromio-clavicular joint stabilisation using the Nottingham Surgilig and were followed up clinically and radiologically for an average of 24 months post operation. The mean post-operative Constant score was 83.1, the Imatani score was 81.2 and the Walsh score was 14.1. Eighty-two per cent of patients were satisfied wit...

Benign peripheral nerve sheath tumors are generally considered curable lesions, and surgical resection is recommended as the primary line of treatment. When these tumors occur in the brachial plexus, they are most frequently accessed via the supraclavicular approach. Traditional descriptions of this approach have included either transection of sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle fibers or disartic...

Cleidocranial dysplasia is a developmental anomaly of the skeleton and the teeth which is result of faulty development of membranous bones. This condition may be inherited or transmitted as dominant characteristics in either sex, or even may appear spontaneously. It presents with a wide range of features, characterized by clavicular aplasia or hypoplasia, short stature, supernumerary teeth. Oth...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to compare the activity of the shoulder and trunk muscles in two push-up positions: standard push-ups and push-ups with the trunk flexed. [Subjects] Fifteen young adult males participated in the study. [Methods] This study measured the clavicular and sternocostal portions of the pectoralis major, the serratus anterior, and the rectus abdominis during push...