Relevant Anatomy of Glenohumeral Instability.

Last updated Friday, February 04, 2005

Introduction

Quotes

"It deserves to be known how a shoulder which is subject to frequent dislocations should be treated. For many persons owing to this accident have been obliged to abandon gymnastic exercises, though otherwise well qualified for them; and from the same misfortune have become inept in warlike practices, and have thus perished. And this subject deserves to be noticed, because I have never known any physician (to) treat the case properly; some abandon the attempt altogether, and others hold opinions and practice the very reverse of what is proper."

- Hippocrates, 2400 years ago

"In every case the anterior margin of the glenoid cavity will be found to be smooth, rounded, and free of any attachments, and a blunt instrument can be passed freely inwards over the bare bone on the front of the neck of the scapula."

- Perthes, 1906

"...the only rational treatment is to reattach the glenoid ligament (or the capsule) to the bone from which it has been torn."

- Bankart, 1939 (Bankart, 1939)

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