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182: Adam Meakins - The Sports Physio, The Unstable Shoulder Expert Edition

The Physical Performance Show

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Post-Dirally Dislocations: The Worst Things in the World

Post-dirally dislocations are very strange in that they leave no observable physical deformity. So what they tend to do is just cause the shoulder not to be able to move. In the UK, 80% of traumatic posterior dislocations were missed in ANE departments and end up in front of physiotherapists. Don't rely on a normal looking x-ray as well, because x-rays from an AP direction can look normal as well although the shoulder is still out of the socket.

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