Collarbone Fracture Treatment Singapore – Clavicle Injury

Clavicle Injury What is clavicle or collarbone? The clavicle or “collarbone” connects the scapula bone in the shoulder to the sternuFram in your chest. It serves to hold the shoulders up and backward.

Collarbone fracture is a common collarbone injury. A break in the clavicle bone fractures usually closed which usually takes about 6 weeks to heal in adults, 4 weeks in children. Injury rarely requires surgery.

Common causes of collarbone fracture

There are some common causes of clavicle fractures. This may be due to birth injuries, such as fractures of the clavicle may during its passage through the birth canal. Fractures are often not noticed until the healing bone callus is seen as a hard lump. It usually does not need to be treated and the lump will disappear when the baby grows.

In older children and adults, accidents such as falling on an outstretched hand or on the shoulder is a common cause of clavicle fractures. These fractures are also sometimes the result of a blow from a blunt object or a collision of some sort.

Symptoms of collarbone fracture

Symptoms of clavicle fracture is pain, swelling, pain, bruising, and deformity or bump at the fracture site. Patients with a broken clavicle can not lift their arm without extreme pain.

When a patient presents with a broken clavicle, the doctor will check to attend the fracture site for neurovascular damage and take x-rays of the injured area, including the joints above and below the primary injury site.

Collarbone Fracture Treatment

At Singapore Sports Clinic, collarbone fracture Treatment Singapore:

• Nonsurgical collarbone fracture treatment Singapore

  • arm support like arm sling to hold the collarbone fracture
  • medications to reduce the pain of the collarbone fracture as the collarbone fracture heals
  • physiotherapy for collarbone fracture

• Surgical collarbone fracture treatment Singapore

  • If the broken ends of the bones have significantly shifted out of place, your doctor may recommend surgery.Surgery typically involves putting the broken pieces of bone back into position and preventing them from moving out of place until they are healed. This can improve shoulder strength when you have recovered. The surgical procedure for collarbone fracture treatment Singapore is open reduction and internal fixation. Read more

How long do you have to wear a sling for a broken collarbone?

A patient with a broken collar bone should wear a simple arm sling for about 6 weeks. Children with clavicle fractures are often equipped with a figure-8 clavicle strap to keep them moving the clavicle until cured, usually within 3 to 4 weeks. Most adult fractures treated with figure-8 splint or strap and will have to sleep in a chair or in bed with extra pillows because the fracture takes one or two weeks to set up and is very important to prevent rolling to the bone during sleep. Usually the patient will be able to start exercising their shoulder after three weeks of immobilization.

Healing is considered complete when there is no motion at the fracture site and x-ray revealed complete bone union.

How severe if the clavicle fracture? Would that collarbone fracture to acromioclavicular joint separation?

Injuries are less common acromoclavicular joint separation, or AC, where the clavicle meets the acromion process of the scapula. It is a bony prominence at the top of the shoulder. Joint ligaments can be injured by falling into the elbow, shoulder or an outstretched arm. Symptoms can range in severity from mild pain to a complete rupture resulting bump joint where the collarbone sticks out of the neck.

Symptoms include pain and tenderness end of the clavicle, and pain when moving the shoulder joint, especially when raising the arm above the shoulder.

If the injury is minor partial separation, it can be treated with ice packs and rest. However, a more serious separation may need to be attached to in order to heal. A complete separation would require orthopedic surgery. AC joint injuries should be evaluated by a doctor, if the injury is ignored and allowed to heal out of place it will increase wear and tear on the shoulder joint caused the problem in the future.

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