Stress fracture of the clavicle in a professional baseball player

Case Report: Bilateral Proximal Epiphyseal Clavicular Stress-related Lesions in a Male Gymnast

“…Clavicular stress fractures have been reported in the distal portion [18], the midportion [22], and the medial third [1,8,17,23] of the clavicle, and all but one case occurred in the adult population. We found no report of a stress fracture or any stress-related lesions in the proximal clavicular physis in the English literature.…”

“…One 10-year study of sports-related injuries [10] reported no clavicular stress fractures and only one case involving the clavicle in a group of 44 upper extremity stress fractures (2.3%) [20]. The clavicular stress fractures previously reported occurred in the shaft, rather than the physis, of the clavicle [1,3,7,8,14,17,18,22,23].…”

Stress fracture of the clavicle in a patient with no obvious risk factors

“…The reports of clavicular stress fractures in athletes include those involved in gymnastics, 3 rowing, 4 platform diving 5 and baseball. 6 These sports share common features with others associated with upper limb stress fractures, such as throwing activities. There has been a report of stress fracture of the first rib in a soccer player, where no repetitive upper limb use occurred.…”

Clavicle fractures

“…More rarely, in 0.5-0.75% of cases, clavicle fractures happen secondarily to birth trauma (increased birth weight above 4 kg) (Dawodu et al, 1997;Beall and Ross, 2001;Ozdener et al, 2013). Stress fractures and pathological fractures are also reported in the literature (Spar, 1977;Wu and Chen, 1998;To et al, 2001;Fallon and Fricker, 2001). Medial clavicular fractures are usually associated with high-energy trauma such as motor vehicle accidents (Throckmorton and Kuhn, 2007;Dehghan and McKee, 2014).…”