[Hook plate (so-called Balser plate) or tension banding with the Bosworth screw in complete acromioclavicular dislocation and clavicular fracture].

Abstract

With both treatments good results are achieved. In cases treated with the hook-plate mobilisation and load putting are earlier possible. These patients are sooner back to work. The costs for the hook-plate are higher. To take out the hook-plate a second hospitalisation is necessary.