Citation

Donohue MA, Owens BD, Dickens JF. Clin. Sports Med. 2016; 35(4): 545-561.

Affiliation

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Building 19, Floor 2, 8901 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20889, USA. Electronic address: jonathan.f.dickens.mil@mail.mil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.csm.2016.05.002

PMID

27543398

Abstract

Anterior shoulder instability in athletes may lead to time lost from participation and decreases in level of play. Contact, collision, and overhead athletes are at a higher risk than others. Athletes may successfully be returned to play but operative stabilization should be considered for long-term treatment of recurrent instability. Open and arthroscopic stabilization procedures for athletes with less than 20% to 25% bone loss improve return to play rates and decrease recurrent instability, with a slightly lower recurrence with open stabilization. For athletes with greater than 20% to 25% bone loss, an open osseous augmentation procedure should be considered.

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Language: en