The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 74, Issue 8 1242-1244, Copyright © 1992 by Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc
The fate of traumatic anterior dislocation of the shoulder in children
HJ Marans, KR Angel, EH Schemitsch and JH Wedge
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Adelaide Childrens Hospital, South Australia.
The cases of twenty-one patients who had open physes and were treated for
radiographic evidence of traumatic anterior dislocation of the shoulder at
either the Adelaide Childrens Hospital or The Hospital for Sick Children,
Toronto, during a fifteen-year period, were reviewed. All twenty-one
patients had had one or more recurrent dislocations. Treatment, which
included immobilization in a sling and swathe for as long as six weeks, had
no effect on the rate of recurrence.