Join us for an informative episode as Dr. Haverstock, a renowned Orthopedic Surgeon specializing in shoulder injuries, discusses Proximal Humerus Fracture, commonly known as a broken shoulder. Gain valuable insights into the causes and treatment options for this injury. Whether you’re a healthcare professional or simply interested in orthopedics, this episode is a must-watch. Subscribe now for more engaging discussions with medical experts. (Disclaimer: This video is for educational purposes only. Consult a healthcare professional for personalized advice.)
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What about chronic dislocated shoulder surgery, have you ever heard of the Putty/Platt (sp?) procedure?
Great information! If you ever are going to follow what a physical says to do and not do, shoulder replacement is that time!!! It's the difference between being able to use your shiulder later in life or not being able to.
My 88 year old mother had a proximal fracture from falling on her patio. Normally it was bad enough, they would have done a shoulder replacement but due to her age they did not want to do surgery. After 6 weeks it had healed! We don’t expect her to get her range of motion back but she is doing her exercises. For her age she did really well but did need me to be there all the time to help her with everything. We rented a recliner but she grew to hate it after she slid out of it on the floor once, but it was good to have.
I fractured my fifth metatarsal
Broke my upper humerus bone twice from falling backwards with my arm behind my body. Not sure it was high enough to count as "shoulder". Pretty simple fracture with obvious loss of function and pain. All I needed was a sling and time for everything to heal up
I’ve broken my sacrum, 2 metatarsals and then my knee cap all in the past 8 months. Ugh.
Makes me wince. Last day of 7th grade 1982, free day. We were playing touch football, i threw the ball to a guy i knew, he caught the ball stepped in a sprinkler hole tripped hit the ground right on his shoulder and bam, dislocated. He screamed the whole time waiting for an ambulance. I will never forget that, even though i spent 22 years in the Coast Guard.
I sustained a Galeazzi fracture at 58 from a high impact mountain bike crash.
I also play guitar and piano, so this was tragic for me.
God bless Dr. Ian Mayne @ North York general.
As an engineer and mathematician myself, I couldn’t have asked for a more precise and fastidious craftsman than Ian.
I had a plate and pins installed and frankly, it was miraculous.
I worked like a dog on mobility and early ROM.
Operation was a massive success.
Thx Dr. Mayne!
Good video! I broke off a piece of the humerus that had ligaments attached, that connected it to the shoulder. This resulted in a hole in the capsule of ligaments holding the ball in the socket. I suffered recurrent dislocations, where the ball would end up in the lower part of the arm-pit. I needed to push/fanagle the ball of the humerus back through the 'hole in the capsule', back into the socket on a semi-regular basis, it hurt. Anytime my elbow was above the shoulder the ball was at risk of coming out. I finally had it fixed after six years of this happening, I did not know I had broken the humerus or my collar bone until this point. My doctor performed the Bristol Method if I remember correctly. The acromion process was moved so that my muscle (bicep?) now holds the ball in the socket when I extend the arm. The piece of broken humerus was too small to reattach or broken for too long, to fix the hole in the ligaments. The Bristol method had less of an impact on range of motion than pulling the capsule of ligaments and stapling them to fix the hole. Since I was an athlete the Bristol Method was a better option from a range of motion aspect. After all this was done and I healed, I ended up tearing all the ligaments holding the collar bone to the shoulder in another incident. My doctor was not happy that I screwed up his work.
Do you guys have a spinal surgeon that is taking referrals?
You haven’t lost your touch Paul 😂 great information Brad and Paul 👍
I broke my collar bone in a car crash – lucky I didn't break my neck. A couple of decades later my son was riding my bicycle over a speed bump in a bar parking lot took a dive and broke his collar bone. Could be a genetic problem but he was drunk. On a bicycle. He still has a metal rod in his collar bone, I had mine strapped up for a while, as I rode my motorcycle. In other words, intellectual deficiencies can cause fractures. Thanks Docs, I'm counting on your intelligent videos to improve my brain activity.
That's really..really well, thank doctor, I got a lot of knowledge about shoulder fractures. and what's the treatment.
I had a fracture/dislocation of my shoulder about 30 years ago. Tore a piece of bone away but fortunately was still minimally attached. When reduced it went right back into place and didn't need surgery. Treatment was exactly what's discussed here. Sling for 4-5 weeks, gentle exercise increasing gradually. I'm sure it's now arthritic as it regularly gives pain but I keep it mobile with swimming. I can't throw properly – a shame because it's my dominant side. It still remains 'loose' – I can feel it move around doing certain things.
Good summary. I broke my shoulder as a kid and was in a brace. A few years ago I broke my scapula when I was turning a valve. For that I had my arm in a sling for a while. Now, I’ve got Osteogenesis Imperfecta, so does this mean my healing time after such a fracture would be longer?
docs is there anyway to regrow articular cartilage?? how about treatments coming next year or at least soon in a few years?
I fell off a telephone pole and broke my clavicle and dislocated the shoulder. An old bone doc who smoked cigarillos while he treated me taped me up over the shoulder and under the elbow, so the weight of the forearm levered the shoulder back up and in. My arm and shoulder were completely immobilized taped around my chest for something like 6 weeks. When he finally untaped me I had this skinny little-kid’s arm that I couldn’t lift my hand above my waist. Another 6 weeks of hours each day tossing a baseball against a wall and I was back to normal. That was 45 years ago and it’s never caused me a problem since.
Doctors is it possible to relocate your shoulder physically or munaly
I fell several years ago. As I was going done, I reached out to grab a chair. My arm jerked back. Immediately it hurt. Next day I went and got an X-ray. It showed nothing. Then two weeks later when it wasn’t getting better, my PCP sent me for an mri. Turns out I had a fracture of my greater tuberosity and a small tear in my Supraspinatus. By the time it was diagnosed, not much to do. Eventually started PT and it finally started to feel better. Plus it first bone to break. Luckily it only took me 56 years ☺️
I had an AC separation when I was 18. Then I went in the Marine corps 4 months later. I definitely felt the pain return with all the pull-ups and push-ups…. Today 30 years later, I have a distinctive knot sticking out the top of my shoulder haha
Have you guys been talking to my Surgeon? My proximal humerus happened Feb and it was brutal. I still don’t have anywhere near the previous range of motion yet. And a total lack of decent pain meds due to the opioid crisis isn’t helping. But I digress. Thank you though.🇨🇦
Thanks Docs. And now I only watch your channel since the Jays are driving me crazy!
Open compound fracture to lower left arm in 1960. I was 7 and these were the days that you weren't sedated or taken to OR to reset bones. I was wrapped in a sheet and orderlys had to lay over me while family Dr pulled my arm back into place, then into a plaster cast. Mom and Dad said they could hear me screaming way down the hall in ER waiting room. So glad they take kids in OR now. I've never forgotten it!
Hello Docs this is a really great video I've had 2 rotator cuff repair surgeries L & R . The right one needs doing again from being lackadaisical & thinking I'm a human fork lift . Just wondering what the doc going to say what needs doing have never had a fracture there hopeful good out come . I bet Dr Paul does the chicken dance when he is tearing into some yard bird wings would like to see a video of that LOL you all have a wonderful weekend .
Broke right shoulder playing football.
Never been fight since.
Good job 👏 👍 👌 🙌 😄 😀
Thanks Doc….BTW: this fracture looks painful..it hurts just looking at it…ouch…never had a bone break TG!….As always thanks to docs for the info and your guest doc Dr. Haverstock…You guys are the best!!! 🙂
So you guys have like virtual visits? I need advice
Thanks for another great video guys! Any chance, and, in this same vein, you could have Dr. Haverstock in again to discuss rotator cuff tear causes, diagnoses and surgery in us "chronologically challenged" (age 65 & up)?
As a 61 year old, I fell out of a wheelie bin! 🤦♂️
Ooh … a little notice before video of surgical procedures, thank you. Or make it blurry like a 1970's romantic advert! Wondered if the trauma of the damage from an accident and/or the intrusion of any surgery automatically means arthritis later, or not necessarily?
Left arm broken twice (bicycle and rough housing), couldn't say radius or ulna. Left jawbone broken once (bicycle, separate to arm accident).
My shoulder just dislocated 2014 no fall or injury, it was put back in place in the ER.I have had repeated PT. The dislocated shoulder froze and I still don't have range of motion.I wonder at 65 what treatment should I seek to stop the pain and be able to use my shoulder without it dislocating
A couple of fractious including ribs swollen spleen. a total dislocation! My arm was totally hanging all I could do was scream the pain was the most unbearable thing I ever felt. Ambulance came I was going into shock, they literally administered morphine it did absolutely nothing! They were racing me to the hospital (screaming) it was a doctor in the hospital that walked in while they were x-raying me this guy literally saved my life!! when they wheeled me back stopped at the nurses station he was so mad, I heard him say stat before we have cardiac arrest. The next is the surgeon and the anesthesiologist are talking to me I needed surgery. the orthopedic surgeon would not let me start anyting 8 weeks and I wound up having a mini stroke while doing Rehabilitation. I can know longer Drive .. I literally woke up they had me on my stomach with my arm out I seen the doctor lift his hands immediately and they put me out again I woke up with full oxygen mask my upper body was fully wrapped my oxygen they said just for a few seconds went down in the upper 80s😳 I literally have post-traumatic stress from it.. I woke up on my couch have no idea how I was taken out of the hospital under anesthesia. When they finally we're able to get me on the phone the next morning they were in a panic wanting to send an ambulance for me to bring me back to the hospital to reevaluate and admit me. The orthopedic surgeon said who is in practice with five others they have never seen this happen except two 300 lb football players never in their career to a small person like me. Frozen shoulder more so much Mobility
Lucky me never has a bone fractured. Not even when hit by a car 🎉🎉🎉
Chicken dance lol hhahaha
Had a fractured radius and ulnar close to elbow now I have no rotation my arm was told the bones now how to heal but not always knows the pattern 🥺
Things must have changed in ten years. 😳
In August 2014 I went outside to turn off the backyard sprinkler at 11pm and tripped and fell and hurt my right shoulder. Off to the nearest ER at midnight, had an x-ray and told at about 2.30am that I'd broken my shoulderhumerus, but there was nobody on staff to put a cast on till morning.
At 7am I was placed in a huge white heavy cast from wrist to shoulder and told I must sleep sitting up for 6 weeks but I'd get a call in a couple of weeks from the bone clinic. I had to use a sling to hold the cast weight.
Never did hear from the bone clinic.
However, that was forgotten about because in that 6 week period I was diagnosed with stage 3 NHL and when I did get to the bone clinic to see if my cast could come off at the end of 6 weeks, I had to wait for someone to say "okay" after a quick x-ray. Hooray, I got a yes.
They cut off the cast and my arm had withered.
One of the several doctors hovering about said to another one that he'd have replaced that cast with a lighter one after two weeks. My referral to the bone clinic hadn't gone through from the ER apparently so I was overlooked.
No idea what kind of break I had but I'm right handed and have no residual weakness, just get an occasional twinge if I'm under the weather. I've made it to 78 and a half thus far so I shouldn't complain too loudly.
Nobody ever mentioned physiotherapy either.
I might go online and sign up for the AB Healthcare records system and find out what kind of break I had. NHL took precedence and I never looked that up either. Sometimes no news is good news, or in other words, what the eyes don't see the heart doesn't grieve over. 😉
I love your content and the jokes, I’m so happy I found the two you as you always have solid advice.
I was wondering if the two of you would consider doing a video on collagen peptides. I looked through your library and didn’t see one.
Thank you both for the great advice.
My doctor had to break my humerus bone to get at my lipoma. Can you do a video on lipomas?
I was surprised it wasn't casted.