Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients who present with a proximal humerus fracture requiring primary or revision ORIF using A.L.P.S Proximal Humerus Plating System * Patients who present with a proximal humerus fracture that involves the metaphysis * 18 years or older Exclusion Criteria: * Patients under the age of 18 * Patients who have an infection, sepsis, or osteomyelitis * Patients who are unwilling to take part in study, have documented psychiatric disorder that limits ability to consent and maintain follow-up, or who may have severe problems maintaining follow-up (e.g. patients who are prisoners, homeless, intellectually changed without adequate family support) * Patients who do not speak English (do to unavailability of non-English surveys) * Patients who have known risk factors of pathologic fractures (e.g. bone metastasis) * Patients who have received treatment for osteoporosis (e.g. bisphosphonate) within the last 5 years or whose treatment lasted longer than 5 years * Patients who have Type 1 diabetes * Patients who have other bone disease (e.g. osteogenesis imperfecta, Paget's disease, thyroid disease, Vitamin D deficiency, hyperparathyroidism) * Patients that have a history of cancer, abnormal serum calcium, or chronic steroid use