The decision to treat a proximal humerus fracture through either nonoperative or operative management depends on several patient and injury factors.“Certainly, physiologic age, comorbidities ...

While many proximal humerus fractures can be treated nonoperatively, different techniques, methods and prostheses can be used to treat the most serious of these injuries, according to sources ...

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Your humerus is the long bone in your upper arm that's located between your elbow and shoulder. A fracture is one of the most common injuries to the humerus.

Traditionally, humerus fractures have been operatively treated using a metal plate and screws. In the non-operative treatment group, patients used a collar and cuff sling for three weeks and ...

Exactech announced today the first surgeries with its novel Equinoxe® Humeral Augmented Tray (HAT) in a reverse total shoulder procedure.

In the first center there were twelve 2-part, seven 3-part and three 4-part fractures and in the second center there were nine 2-part, eight 3-part and five 4-part fractures. The whole group ...

In the first center 22 patients with a proximal humeral fracture (16 female/6 male, median age 64 years, range 36-94 years) were diagnosed with conventional analogous plain radiography with an AP ...