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Explain how hitting the ground with your hands can fracture the clavicle?
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∙ 13y ago
Clavicle is the one of long bone according to its shape, so when hitting with high pressure could be easier to break. Also, it join with two bone which made clavicle to have a risk of breaking due to its attachment point.
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∙ 12y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoThe clavicle is a Very small bone & cannot take large amounts of stress
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How does hitting the ground with your arms fracture the clavicle?
You usually fall with out stretched hand. There are many types of fractures in that case including the fracture of the clavicle. The wave of shock pass along the fore arm and arm bones. It falls on the scapula. Scapula has got no bony attachment to the chest wall. So shock wave pass to the sternum via clavicle. At times the clavicle get fractured.
How hitting the graund whit the hands can fracture the clavicle?
The shock of hitting the ground with the hands travels up the arms, and hits the clavicle with enough force and the angle to fracture it. The impact usually damages something else before it gets that far, but the bones must have been aligned just so for the shock to travel up without damaging anything else on the way up.
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