Clavicle fracture

The collarbone breaks either from a significant weight, or from a sharp fall, or from a strong blow. Restoring the collarbone is a difficult matter and requires caution. Regarding its recovery, they say that if it breaks close to the sternum, the head of the humerus rarely moves downwards.

The scientist says: If the collarbone is broken in half, then sit the patient on a stool and let an assistant hold him by the shoulder, near which the broken collarbone is located, and pull the shoulder outward, as well as upward, while another servant pulls the neck and shoulder on the opposite side, as far as it is necessary. And the doctor straightens the bone with his fingers, what protrudes, he pushes, and what sinks, he drags and pulls, if stronger traction is required, he puts a large ball of rags under the patient’s arm and pushes the elbow, bringing it closer to the ribs, because the elbow can be pull as you want. If the end of the clavicle is severely broken off inwardly, does not yield to the doctor’s pulling and does not rise, since it has gone far deep, then tell the patient to lie on his back, place a convex pillow under his shoulder and rub the shoulder, pushing it downwards until the clavicle bone rises, and then straighten it, straighten it with your fingers and bandage it.

If the patient feels a tingling sensation when he runs his hand over the bone, it means that he is being pricked by a piece of bone under the damaged area. Then make an incision and remove the splinter, but this should be done carefully, especially if the splinter crumbles, so as not to tear the lining of the chest. Place a device under the bone that protects the membrane, and then press on the bone, and if a hot tumor has not formed, sew up the incision and let it heal, and if a hot tumor has formed, then moisten the compresses with oil.

And if the head of the humerus sank during a fracture along with a piece of the clavicle in a downward direction, then the shoulder should be suspended on a wide bandage and raised towards the neck, but if a piece of the clavicle is deflected upward - and this happens rarely - then the shoulder should not be suspended for a person with a broken collarbone They force him to lie on his back, put him on a light regimen, and bandage his collarbone once a month or less.

As for dressings for the collarbone, they say that the collarbone does not come off from the inside, since it is connected to the chest and is not separated from it and therefore does not move in that direction. If it is hit hard from the outside and it separates, then it is straightened and treated in the same way as it is treated when it breaks.

As for that end of the clavicle, which is adjacent to the shoulder and separated from it, it does not dislocate often, because the biceps muscle does not allow this, and the head of the scapula prevents it. The collarbone does not make strong movements, because it is installed only to move apart and expand the chest; therefore, among all animals, only humans have a collarbone. If the collarbone is dislocated during a struggle or from anything else like this, then the bone is set and forced into place by hand or by numerous compresses, which are applied to the collarbone with a suitable bandage. This treatment is also suitable for the upper end of the humerus, when it is displaced and is returned in this way to its place. The organ connecting the clavicle with the shoulder is the cartilaginous bone, and in thin people this is misleading, so that when it is displaced, the doctor, who has no experience, believes that the upper end of the humerus has broken off and left its container, because the end of the scapula it then seems sharper, and the place from which the bone came out seems concave. However, this should be distinguished by signs that you learn from experience later.