RECURRENT OR HABITUAL DISLOCATION OF THE SHOULDER

Habitual Dislocation of the Shoulder

Habitual dislocation of the shoulder joint was known to Hippocrates and to Paul of Aegina. The ifiustration of Broca and Hartmann, taken from Bulletins of the Anatomical Society of Paris of 1890, illustrates how comprehensive was the knowledge of gleno-labrial detachments and deformation of the humeral head more than sixty years ago (Fig. 1). Little has since been added to this knowledge, thoug...

[Recurrent dislocation of the shoulder].

1 . The operative findings in seventeen cases of recurrent dislocation of the shoulder are presented and discussed. Detachment of the glenoid labrum (thirteen cases) and the formation of a posterior humeral groove (eleven cases) were the most consistent findings. 2. In one case recurrent dislocation of the shoulder was due to avulsion of the subscapularis muscle. 3. The surgical treatment of th...

Recurrent Dislocation of the Shoulder

This paper is based on a review of 180 cases of recurrent dislocation of the shoulder joint occurring in ground staff and air crew members of the Royal Air Force in the six-year period 1940 to 1945. During this period a total of 159 operations was performed for the relief of this disability. The task of analysing such a series has been facilitated by the fact that in a relatively small orthopae...

Recurrent Dislocation of the Shoulder Joint

Dr. DePalma was the first editor of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, established by the recently formed Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons. The idea of forming the Association of Bone and Joint surgeons had been conceived by Dr. Earl McBride of Oklahoma City in 1947, and organized by a group of twelve individuals (Drs. Earl McBride, Garrett Pipkin, Duncan McKeever, Judson Wilson,...

Recurrent posterior dislocation of the shoulder.