Surgery discussed?: Unless there is something else significant in your history or you are wanting to avoid surgery at all cost, surgical treatment would be a reliable next step. Typically, a combination of a metal plate and screws is placed to rigidly hold the bone ends (even compress them) together and allow bone healing. The bone movement a cast allows is not made better by a stimulator.
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