Presentation
Left shoulder pain since 1 hr due to history of patient pulled his shoulder accidentally whiled drying his clothes, on examination: there is pain and deformity of left shoulder area with empty of the glenoid fossa, no open injury or numbness or weakness, no neurovascular injury detected.
Patient Data
Deformity of left shoulder area with empty of the glenoid fossa
• left anterior shoulder dislocation
• no fracture is seen.
• soft tissue shadows show deformity in the deltoid muscle
Post reduction X-Ray revealed the good position of the right glenohumeral joint.
Case Discussion
In order to do reduction to the anterior dislocation of the shoulder, we put the elbow joint at a right angle and make the humerus at a right angle with the trunk in abduction position, then we slowly do an external rotation of the humerus until we hear the click of the humeral head returning to the glenoid cavity, this method is easy and not very painful and the results are excellent.