clavicle fracture

Many research projects are underway regarding the medical healing process of clavicle fractures.

Newborns often present clavicle fractures following a difficult delivery.

Surgery is occasionally needed for certain clavicle fractures, especially for disunions.

About half of all clavicle fractures occur in children under the age of 7 and is the most common pediatric fracture.

Clavicle fractures involve approximately 5% of all fractures seen in hospital emergency admissions.

Management of acute clavicle fractures.

The 22-year-old Semerád, who was taken to a hospital by a helicopter, survived with a minor injury suffering with a clavicle fracture.

A clavicle fracture is a bone fracture in the clavicle, or collarbone.

Erb's palsy can also affect neonates affected by a clavicle fracture unrelated to dystocia.

Clavicle fractures are commonly known as a breaking of the collarbone, and they are usually a result of injury or trauma.

Incidents that may lead to a clavicle fracture include automobile accidents, horizontal falls on the shoulder joint, or contact sports such as football,rugby or wrestling.

Pneumothorax (an accumulation of air in the space outside the lung), clavicle fractures, and injuries to the blood vessels are among the most commonly associated injuries.

The muscles involved in clavicle fractures include the deltoid, trapezius, subclavius, sternocleidomastoid, sternohyoid and pectoralis major muscles.

Some forms of impact that affect the injury to the brachial plexus are shoulder dislocation, clavicle fractures, hyperextension of the arm and sometimes delivery at birth.

Tests were performed to check for cardiac murmur, heart engorgement, subconjunctival hemorrhage, jaundice, asexuality, hip dysplasia, clavicle fractures, skin mottling.

The basic method to check for a clavicle fracture is by an X-Ray of the clavicle in order to determine the fracture type and extent of injury.

He had a clavicle fracture in 2001, which corresponds to the higher rate of "plexus brachialis distorsion and a higher rate of shoulder injuries" in the LW10 class compared to able bodied skiers.

The most frequent cause is trauma, either sudden (as in a clavicle fracture caused by a car accident), or repetitive (as in a legal secretary who works with his/her hands, wrists, and arms at a fast paced desk station with non-ergonomic posture for many years).

David Altchek, an orthopedist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan and the doctor for the New York Mets, said that many mountain biking injuries are clavicle fractures or separated shoulders that occur when bikers fall over the handlebars.

Recoil of the 13-pound (5.9 kg) Nock gun caused dislocated shoulders and clavicle fractures among the sailors firing Nock guns; and the muzzle flash from simultaneous discharge of multiple barrels could ignite canvas sail when fired from positions in the rigging.