CONTEXT Given its young, predominately male demographics and intense physical demands, the US military remains an ideal cohort for the study of anterior shoulder instability. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A literature search of PubMed, MEDLINE, and the Cochrane Database was performed to identify all peer-reviewed publications from 1950 to 2016 from US military orthopaedic surgeons focusing on the mana...

BACKGROUND Shoulder instability in the older patient traditionally has received less attention in the literature than in the younger patient population. However, when traumatic dislocation does occur, these patients often still have frequent pain, disability, and even continued instability. PURPOSE To characterize the pathoanatomy of traumatic anterior shoulder instability in the older patien...

Define shoulder instability and identify the most common causes of shoulder instability in athletes. Shoulder instability encompasses a wide spectrum, from complete dislocations that require manual reduction to microinstability in throwers. When we looked prospectively at West Point cadets, we found that 80% of instability events were subluxations (no manual reduction performed).1 We found that...

BACKGROUND It has been recognized that there is a distinction between shoulder laxity and shoulder instability and that there is a wide range of normal shoulder laxities. Our goals were (1) to evaluate if the ability to subluxate the shoulder over the glenoid rim in patients under anesthesia would be more prevalent than the inability to do so, (2) to determine if patients with a diagnosis of in...

BACKGROUND Prospective data collection occurred between 2000 and 2010 on 143 consecutive patients with symptomatic rotator cuff tears, aiming to examine the end-result of a new technique of mini-open double row repair: the Capstan screw technique. METHODS All patients had a pre- and postoperative Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS), American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score and range of movem...