Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has surgery to repair his right collarbone (clavicle) after a nasty cycling accident in Europe earlier this week (Broken collar bone: Lance Armstrong down).
Unfortunately, the bone needed more repair than originally thought. There wasn’t any clean break, in fact there were several breaks and, according to news reports, the doctors had to insert 12 screws and one metal plate to rebuild it.
Having seen how nasty those bike accidents can be in a bike race, I’m surprised there aren’t more severe injuries among the cyclists.
Some cyclists have come back to racing fairly quickly after breaking …read more

It’s a bone that no-one thinks that much about unless you break it or you’re staring in the mirror and you think it sticks out too much: your collar bone. Today, Tour de France winner seven times over, Lance Armstrong, is thinking about his collar bone more than he ever did before, I’m sure.
We think we don’t use it very much. After all, it doesn’t bear our weight when we walk, it doesn’t help us lift heavy things – or does it? What exactly does the collar bone do?
The collar bone, or clavicle, does quite a bit. The  most important …read more