NEW YORK — A retrospective review presented at the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Annual Meeting showed younger patients with less complex proximal humerus fractures were more commonly treated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While many proximal humerus fractures can be treated nonoperatively, different techniques, methods and ...

(HealthDay News) — When an older patient breaks the upper arm, surgery is often no better than simply immobilizing the limb, according to a new study. The study was published in the March 10 issue of ...

Patients with proximal humerus fractures demonstrated substantially higher mortality rates than their matched control individuals from the general population over a 2-year period, with the highest ...

The primary strength of this scoping review is the ability to identify key development areas to improve the quality and relevance of biomechanical modeling for proximal humerus fracture treatments.

For those who suffer from a shoulder fracture, also known as a proximal humerus fracture, either due to a fall or other type of trauma, the road to recovery can be a slow and frustrating one. Learn ...

Proximal humerus fractures account for <5% of fractures in children and the peak age of occurrence is 15 years old. 1 Nearly all proximal and midshaft fractures of the humerus in the pediatric ...

According to Supreme Court spokesperson Kathleen Arberg, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer underwent reverse shoulder replacement surgery for a proximal humerus fracture at MedStar Georgetown ...