Prospective study of management of closed fracture proximal humerus in elderly patients ( > 60 yr ) age through orif with philos plating technique

This paper presents assessment of prospective study conducted for the management of closed fracture Proximal humerus in elder patients (>60yr) through PHILOS plating and comparing the results in terms of functional outcome with existing standard literatures and results of various other studies based on same treatment modalities. In this study a sample of 16 patients were taken with closed fracture proximal humerus all of which were managed through ORIF with PHILOS plating. Sample patients were treated reviewed and followed till the end of the study to analyze the functional outcome in terms of two standard scaling methodology i.e Visual analogue scale (VAS) and constant Murley score. Based on assessment it was found that average constant Murley score of all patients was measured 87.6 (range 64-100) after final follow up. It was found that values of results were varied depending upon different factors like more the grading of fracture worst will be score, associated co-morbidities of patients like diabetes, neurovascular deficit and others also deteriorates the score. Similarly mean VAS score was found to be 2.4 range (0-10) after