Clavicle Error - Broken Collarbone

The sad truth is, they actually don't know which option is better for some fractures. Myself and middleofnowhere are on a clinical trial where you are picked at random to have a displaced fracture (overlapping bones) pinned. Both of us are non-operative participants. He's healed fine, mine still moves about under rotation. Maybe in 5 years time there will be a definitive answer, but for now the NHS only seem to pin the ones that will obviously lead to problems later.

Hope you heal well and definitely rest it as much as possible.

An update that might be helpful to those with a clavicle fracture or those yet to have one.

I've had two follow-up hospital visits since the accident 10 days ago. The second was to discuss joining a trial that hopes to determine the best treatment for displaced fractures, by being randomly assigned to one of two groups - one with surgery, one without. The study will run for 9 months.

If I don't to join the trial, then I am free to op for surgery or proceed without it. I must decide this weekend as surgery is scheduled for Tuesday (12 days post the accident). Medical advice (from my consultant) is that it is impossible to determine which treatment is best - although he confessed that another medic may have a different opion, but 10-15% of fractures like mine don't heal well and may need surgery any way.

Are they still doing that? This is at the Free yeah?