You have to remember something, to a lot of these docs, the old school non-surgical approach is acceptable, even for severe cases (like mine) because thats the way they were taught, its not their shoulder, and they are not riders . There are reports of studies in medical journals now that conclude plating is the prefered treatment for displaced fractures. Plating clavicles is relatively new, and the Ti clavicle specific hardware is very new(they started with stainless steel pelvic repair plates that had to be bent to shape), so unless the doc is on top of his continuing education and experience, you get old school. A lot of these guys have no business marketing "Sports Medicine" because all they do is discourage you from risky activities and make no extra effort to get you back in the game the way you were. The bread and butter of these guys seems to be in replacing trashed hips and knees in old people, common, accepted procedures insurance pays for, and the patients are almost certainly to be happy with compared to what they had.
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