Posterior shoulder instability in a 10 y.o. male

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Posterior shoulder instability in a 10 y.o. male

By Juan Ayala Mejias 7 Videos

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February 3, 2013

This presentation describes a non common traumatic posterior dislocation of the right shoulder in a ...
read more ↘ 10 y.o. male with hiperlaxity.
After this first episode, he could sublux his shoulder spontaneously whenever he was sleeping in bed with intense pain when posterior subluxation occurred. After 3 weeks we immobilized the shoulder with an abduction and external rotation sling but he continued suffering pain and subluxations. As parents said, he had at least one posterior dislocation every night. 3 weeks after the dislocation a CT scan was performed and still a posterior dislocation was shown. We finally decided to operate this child and a intraoperative arthroscopy video is shown. A posterior plication was performed and 10 weeks after surgery this boy had no pain neither any subluxation signs. We also include several opinions of shoulder experts in vumedi forum.
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