What Are the Functional Outcomes and Pain Scores after Medial Clavicle Fracture Treatment?

CONCLUSION: Medial clavicle fractures have favorable functional outcomes and pain relief at minimum 1-year follow-up among those patients who survive the trauma, but a high proportion will die within 3 years of the injury. This likely reflects both the frailty of a predominantly older patient population and the fact that these often are high-energy injuries. The outcome measures in our cohort were not associated with fracture displacement, shortening, or comminution; however, our sample size was underpowered on these points, and so these findings should be considered preliminary. Further studies are needed to determine the subset of patients with this injury who would benefit from surgical intervention.LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV, therapeutic study.PMID:34100833 | DOI:10.1097/CORR.0000000000001839
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research