Fracture of the clavicle – a fairly common and one of the most dangerous injuries. Very often it is produced athletes, especially boxers, karate, etc. It is often in childhood and adolescence. The clavicle is a tubular bone. The central end of clavicle connected to the sternum, and lateral to the acromion appendage blades.

Fractures of the clavicle occur frequently and account for about 15% of all fractures. The mechanism of fracture of the clavicle often only represents the direct effect of traumatic forces – a blow to the clavicle. Collarbone injury can result from falling on the shoulder, arm straight, elbow. Under the influence of traction of the muscles (mainly sternocleidomastoid or the sternocleidomastoid muscle), central otlomok clavicle is displaced upward and backward, and peripheral, due to the severity of limb moves down and inwards. The patient complains of pain in the fracture, pain when all this is possible, it is often found in children and adolescents, especially boys.

Of all fractures of the clavicle bone fractures occur in every seven-tenth person. Clavicle – a small conveys motor impulses from the hand of the entire skeleton. (As opposed to Comedian). The clavicle also protects the armpit, where there are large blood vessels and nerve plexus. The structure of the clavicle is different from other buildings bones, as it has in the bone marrow. Causes and types of fracture of the clavicle clavicle fracture is a violation of the integrity of the bone. On the mechanism of injury clavicle fractures can be divided into two groups. The first group arising from the indirect mechanism of injury, for example, after the fall of the outer surface of the shoulder to the elbow or outstretched arm. In these cases, fractures are often oblique and kosopoperechnymi. Sometimes broken collarbone arise from the muscle contraction caused by seizures (eg epilepsy). The position of the fractures of the clavicle fractures can be divided into thirds on the outer, middle third and inner third.