This document discusses atraumatic shoulder instability and treatment options. It presents the Stanmore classification system for shoulder instability, which categorizes types of instability as traumatic structural (Polar I), atraumatic structural (Polar II), or motor control (Polar III). For atraumatic structural instability (Polar II), options include small lesion repair, capsular plications, or large lesion repair/reconstruction along with rehabilitation. The document outlines a proposed randomized controlled trial to determine whether surgical stabilization plus physiotherapy improves outcomes for atraumatic instability compared to physiotherapy alone.
19. Atraumatic shoulder instability
Randomized Controlled Trial
Does stabilisation surgery followed by
physiotherapy improve short & long term
outcomes compared with physiotherapy alone?
Associate Professor Karen Ginn
Associate Professor Karen Ginn
Ms Anju Jaggi
Dr Susan Alexander
Professor Len Funk
Professor Rob Herbert
21. Clinical Trial
aim
a robust randomised controlled clinical trial to determine whether surgical
intervention followed by physiotherapy improves outcomes in patients
suffering from atraumatic shoulder instability associated with capsulolabral
damage compared with physiotherapy alone
design
double blind (patient & physiotherapist) randomised controlled clinical trial
sham-controlled surgical arm
in order to account for the strong placebo effect associated with “the high levels of stress and
rituals involved with surgery”
Dowrick & Bhandari 2012
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ethics approval granted data collection commenced April 2013
22. Methodology - Procedure
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patients with a feeling of insecurity in their shoulder, not associated with a high collision injury,
which is provoked by physical examination tests, who do not have upper limb nerve damage
identified
MRI examination
• sign consent to participate prior to undergoing diagnostic arthroscope
• undergo baseline outcome measurements
diagnostic arthroscope
• subjects recruited
• randomly allocation
stabilisation surgery no further intervention
post-operative physiotherapy
maximum 12 treatment sessions over 6 months
6 months post-randomisation
all outcome measurements re-assessed
1 & 2 years post-randomisation
WOSI, participant perceived improvement & dislocation episodes re-assessed
exclude –
bony damage & RC tear
exclude –
no capsulolabral damagesubjects blinded
therapists blinded
assessor blinded
assessor blinded
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Editor's Notes
ST4-6 am session 'Instability'
11.00am - Instability - Arthroscopic Techniques for Repair, Indications for Open Surgery, Dealing with Glenoid Deficiency
As a result suture plication techniques have more widely applied, both open and arthroscopically…..
The aim of the study was to assess the surgical role in the management of patients with atraumatic instability of the shoulder who remained unstable despite assessment and treatment by specialist shoulder physiotherapy.
As above
Many had previous episodes of physiotherapy elsewhere but all patients were seen pre-op for a mean of 5.4 months by one of 2 specialist shoulder therapists in our unit
This table shows pre and post op scores with ranges in brackets. Statistically significantly improved scores were noted in the OS, OI and quick DASH scores