A 23-year-old Junior-A hockey player presents with a grade III acromioclavicular (AC) joint dislocation. His question is: "Doc, can I play the season?" (Figure 1). A radiograph demonstrates that the ...

Your body is made up of hundreds of joints. These joints attach bones together and help your body move. The sternoclavicular joint is one of four joints in your shoulder. When the sternoclavicular ...

From 1994 to 1995, 57 arthroscopic procedures were done. For all patients, the indications for surgery were impingement phenomena with pain at the AC joint, a positive adduction sign, and tenderness ...

Background: Approximately 120 cases of posterior sternoclavicular joint (SCJ) dislocation have been documented in the medical literature since it was first described in 1824 by Sir Astley Cooper, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The treatment of displaced clavicle fractures has historically been mostly nonoperative. However, several recent ...

ANY consideration of injury to the clavicle must take into account certain fundamentals. In the first place, absence of the clavicle is not incompatible with normal function of the shoulder girdle.