www.sandersclinic.net Clavicle (collar bone) fractures are a common occurrence in Orthopaedics, accounting for nearly 2.6% of all fractures. They also occur most commonly in young active individuals. The patient in this video, a 28 year old male, fractured his right clavicle riding a motorcycle. After his injury, he visited an Orthopaedic surgeon. The treatment plan... a figure-8 brace. In a recent article from the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery American Edition (2007)*, it was stated that for displaced midshaft clavicle fractures, the rate of nonunion (not healing) without operative treatment (eg, a sling or figure-8 brace), was 15.1%. For the same type of fractures, with operative treatment (eg, using a plate), the nonunion rate was 2.2%. Needless to say, after 8 weeks of being in a figure-8 brace, this patients clavicle did not heal. So, he decided to come to the Sanders Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, in Houston, Texas, where he met Mark Sanders, MD FAAOS. Here, the patient was educated about surgical fixation using a titanium locking plate and booked for surgery the next week. The video shows footage of the patient both before the surgery and 1 day after his surgery. After surgery, the patient came back to the office. His dressing was changed, x-rays were taken, and he began rehab. Because he was in a sling for 8 weeks prior to seeing Dr. Sanders, the muscles in his shoulder and arm had atrophied (weakened), making rehab slightly more difficult <b>...</b>