Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nonoperative treatment of humeral fractures with functional bracing yielded high nonunion and reoperation rates.

Background: Fixation failure is a relatively common sequela of surgical management of proximal humerus fractures (PHF). The purpose of this study is to understand the current state of the literature ...

The humerus is the long bone of your upper arm. It extends from your shoulder to your elbow, where it joins with the ulna and radius bones of your forearm. A humerus fracture refers to any break in ...

Surgical patients appear to recover faster and more reliably than patients treated with functional bracing. A study published in the distinguished JAMA journal compared functional bracing, the ...

These radiographs reveal a mildly displaced, comminuted spiral fracture at the distal diaphysis of the left humerus with an associated butterfly fragment (Fig. 1). The patient, a healthy recreational ...