It's not really suprising it's not healed then - I understand your problem, but a broken collar bone isn't going to heal very well if you keep using it.

When my mother was a little girl she fell out of a tree and broke her collar bone, back then (1940's?) they treated it with a huge plastercast covering the entire torso and the affected shoulder and upper arm. Perhaps a little overkill, but now they just seem to rely on luck?.

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That question can't be answered on a forum such as this.

However, a responsible surgeon should always consider non-surgical approaches first. I suspect a second opinion at this time would concur with your current physician, but of course the physician would have to examine you and do additional studies before coming to that conclusion. The question is what is the natural history of non-union of a clavicle in a relative young man and is there a point at which surgical intervention is made more difficult or less satisfactory because of the delay.

You might consider just putting those questions to your current physician, if you have not already.

Here is a link to an interesting article on the subject:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410427

Good luck.

John