2004 Volume 28 Issue 3 Pages 493-496
The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics of shoulders with traumatic anterior instability. In 1998, we surgically treated 55 shoulders in 55 patients with traumatic anterior instabilities of the shoulder. The subjects consisted of 40 males and 15 females with an average age of 23.5 years. We investigated the following points; 1) scoring system for joint hypermobility(Beighton),2)the applied force at the initial dislocation,3)the number of dislocations or subluxations,4)the age at the initial dislocation or subluxation,5)diagnoed as recurrent dislocation or recurrent subluxsation. Hill-Sacks lesion and Bankart lesion were evaluated using CT images.
The average Beigh ton score was 3.9 points. As for the case of five or more points, the Bankart lesion and the Hill- Sacks lesion were not evident. The patients in which large force was received at the initial dislocation had a bony Bankart lesion. There were no correlations between the number of dislocations or subluxations and the Bankart lesion and Hill-Sachs lesion.
