Tristan Langlais, Hugo Barret, Malo Le Hanneur, Franck Fitoussi
Dynamic shoulder instability in children or adolescents, whose glenohumeral growth plates are still open, is a rare condition with an etiology that is hard to decipher. Atraumatic and recurrent forms are most common, contrary to adults. Disruptions to capsule and ligament maturation, muscle balance or bone growth can lead to glenohumeral instability. The etiology assessment, which needs to be multidisciplinary in atraumatic forms, aims to collect the medical history, analyze the direction of the instability, determine whether it is voluntary or involuntary, and look for a history of trauma, connective tissue abnormality, psychological disorder, neuromuscular pathology or congenital malformation...
October 20, 2022: Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Surgery & Research: OTSR