Your shoulder is the most flexible joint in your body. It allows you to place and rotate your arm in many positions in front, above, to the side and behind your body. (A.A.O.S. 2000) The fact that the shoulder has such a range of motion and handles so much weight; makes it a vulnerable joint for injury, especially in sports. There are many types of shoulder injuries; these injuries include shoulder instability, impingement and rotator cuff tears, and AC joint separation. Of these injuries the one that I want to focus on is shoulder instability. There are two types of shoulder instabilities; these are subluxations and dislocations. A subluxation is a partial or incomplete dislocation… A dislocation is when the head of the arm bone slips out of the shoulder socket. (A.A.O.S. 2000) Doctors have been modifying their treatments for these types of shoulder problems. Over the years they have developed a few options that make this type of shoulder surgery more likely and easier
There are three options you have when you have a shoulder subluxation or dislocation. For shoulder subluxations you can either go through physical therapy to strengthen the muscles around your shoulder, or you can have surgery. There are two types of surgery normally used for shoulder instability; one is open surgical repair, which may require a short hospital stay. (A.A.O.S. 2000) Over the past few years this surgery has been very reliable to repair the ligaments in the shoulder. (Shoulder Hand & Upper Limb Clinic) Another is arthroscopic surgical repair, which is often done on an outpatient basis. This surgery is usually done with a small incision to repair the ligaments in the shoulder. This type doesn’t require the cutting of the muscles or capsules of the shoulder. The last is laser assisted capsule shrinkage (LACS) this surgery is often used on patients with very minor instabilities. This surgery consists of a very low powered laser heating the ligaments to about 60-70 degrees; whic
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