What are the symptoms of a broken collarbone?
What are the symptoms of a broken collarbone?
If you break your collarbone, you may experience:
- Snapping or grinding noise when the bone breaks.
- Sharp pain, which gets worse when you move that area.
- Shoulder slumping down or forward because the bone no longer supports it.
- Difficulty moving or lifting the arm, with a possible grinding feeling when you do.
- Bruising, swelling or tenderness in the area.
- Bump that you can see through the skin.
- Numbness or “pins and needles” (less often).
- Bone poking through the skin, with bleeding (rarely).