Clavicle Fractures
Clavicle Fractures AC SC Case 79 year old active female fell while - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Clavicle Fractures AC SC Case 79 year old active female fell while skiing These do well without surgery Questions: 1. Treatment: A. Operative B. Non-operative Questions 1. Operative Treatment Choices: A. Transacromial
AC SC Case 79 year old active female fell while skiing
“These do well without surgery”
Questions:
- 1. Treatment:
– A. Operative – B. Non-operative
Questions
- 1. Operative Treatment Choices:
- A. Transacromial Fixation
- B. Suture anchor(s)
- C. Plate
- D. Plate + CC fixation
- E. Coracoclavicular fixation
2 weeks later
“I thought these were supposed to do well without surgery???”
Questions:
- 1. Treatment:
– A. Operative – B. Non-operative
Questions
- 1. Operative Treatment Choices:
- A. Transacromial Fixation
- B. Suture anchor(s)
- C. Plate
- D. Plate + CC fixation
- E. Coracoclavicular fixation
CC Fixation
8 weeks postop – clinically healed
Case 1
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- 20 y.o. sophomore Starting QB
- Goes down on shoulder during 3rd game of
season in 1st quarter
- Already has thrown for 700 yards in 1st two
games
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On field
- Unable to raise arm
- Tender diffusely anterior shoulder and around
AC Joint
- Neck with normal rom
- NVI distally
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Take to Locker Room and Re-examine
- Shoulder Pads off
- Moderate deformity at AC joint
- Tenderness around AC joint and anterior
shoulder
- Now able to Raise arm and resist in all planes
with discomfort
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Xrays:
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Xrays:
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NEXT STEP?
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NEXT STEP? Done for the game? Injection? MRI?
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Discussion with athlete A shared decision was made and injection was chose
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Athlete went back out in 2nd quarter Unable to play, too painful to throw Sat out rest of game
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NEXT STEP?
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MRI
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NEXT STEP? Done for the year? Surgery? Rest and see if able to come back?
Acromioclavicular Joint injuries Results from survey from NCAA Div. I ortho docs
- Type III AC joint injuries:
Treat non-operatively 2008 67% 2016 92% Fix 2008 22% 2016 8% Fix in QB 2008 11% 2016 33%
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- Treated with rest and progressive motion and
strengthening
- Improved every week
- Came back 3 weeks later
- Finished year and threw for 2,000 yards
- Story done?
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End of season exam
- Significant deformity
- Scapular dyskinesis
- Cross arm adduction with elevation of clavicle
- ver acromion
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Not the Athlete but example of the mechanics of the AC joint
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NEXT STEP?
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Called Russ Warren & Rich Hawkins
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Ultimately decision was to rehab and strengthen and do surgery if did not improve
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Scapular mechanics remained abnormal but he felt fine was able to return to play 2 more years and became all-time leading passer for University of Colorado
Case presentation
Complex AC joint injury
- 45 y.o. worker
- MVA, multiple injuries, resolved
- AC soreness, deformity,
dysfunction
- Scope “AC joint repair”,
technique unknown
- Continued symptoms, deformity-
“no change”
- What caused
repair failure
- What is current
pathoanatomy, pathophysiology
- Treatment
- ptions
Post op 1
Post op 2
- Anatomic CC-
graft, sutures, 4.5 mm holes
- AC- graft docked
to acromion, 2.4 mm holes, tension band
- Native ant, post
AC repair, suture anchors
Kibler et al Arthroscopy April 2017
Case 2
- 20 year old quarterback tackled and thrown on to one of
his shoulders and sustained a significant injury
20 yo with football injury
Weighted views
20 yo with football injury
20 yo with football injury
Cross body adduction AP radiographs
20 yo with football injury
20 yo with football injury
19 year follow-up: Patient is now a practicing orthopedic surgeon and feels his right shoulder is “normal”