Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD The humerus is your upper arm bone. It is the longest bone in the upper part of your body and is connected to many important tendons and ligaments. The ...

Finnish study adds to knowledge about treating fractures of the humeral shaft. Surgical patients appear to recover faster and more reliably than patients treated with functional bracing.

Operative fixation of isolated, closed humeral shaft fractures yielded a mean DASH score of 24.5 at 3-month follow-up. This was compared with a mean DASH score of 39.4 for nonoperative treatment.

Researchers used statistical analysis to compare data between the two groups. Patients with humeral shaft fractures had an overall complication rate of 30.8% with intramedullary nailing and 34.2% ...

Proximal humeral fractures ... of the tuberosities to the shaft and to restore rotator cuff function. With "valgus-impacted" 4-part fractures, the axillary view and the CT can be misleading ...

A study published in the distinguished JAMA journal compared functional bracing, the non-operative treatment of humeral shaft fractures, with surgical treatment of similar fractures in adult patients.