Multidirectional Instability is still a term that is used for a number of patients with shoulder instabiliity. In this lecture I discuss the confusion in definitions, applications and my understanding and management of this complex group of patients.
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22yr secretary, asymptomatic
Hyperlax in all directions
ANTERIOR
POSTERIOR INFERIOR
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17yr old swimmer - overstretch in pool
Subluxing posterior in flexion and painful
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20 year old rugby player - tackling impact injury
Pain & dead arm; feels unstable
Large anterior and posterior labral tears
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6. MDI - Definitions?
1. Shoulder Instability in patients who have generalised
looseness of the ligaments of the shoulder [Web Dictionary]
2. Generalised looseness of the shoulder joint
3. Abnormal excursion of the humeral head on the glenoid in all
directions [Neer]
4. Instability in TWO directions [1,2,3,4]
5. Instability in THREE directions [5,6,7]
6. Motor Control Trouble - the less surgery the best
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8. The use of laxity testing tends to result in an overestimation of the
number of patients with this condition.
This observation is important because the results of studies may vary
if patients with traumatic instability are considered to have
multidirectional instability on the basis of laxity testing.
Investigators studying patients with multidirectional instability should
carefully define the inclusion criteria that they used.
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9. Uncontrollable, involuntary inferior subluxation
or dislocation, associated with both anterior and
posterior dislocations or subluxations of the
shoulder.
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10. Stanmore Classification
Atraumatic
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Polar I
Traumatic Structural
Polar II
Atraumatic Structural
Polar III
Motor Control
11. What is it?
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• Shoulder Instability in patients who have generalised
looseness of the ligaments of the shoulder [Web Dictionary]
• Atraumatic
• Multidirectional laxity
• Uni/Multidirectional Instability
12. Stanmore Classification
Atraumatic
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Small lesion Repair
Capsular Plications
Polar I
Traumatic Structural
Polar II
Atraumatic Structural
Polar III
Motor Control
Large lesion Repair
Bony Reconstructions
Rehab +/-
Capsular Plication
Specialist
Rehab.
18. Capsular Plication Results
Arthroscopic 88-94% success at 2-5yrs Gartsmann
Open
94% good/excellent at 5yrs Bigliani
59% good/excellent
83% satisfactory
Hamada
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19. Arthroscopic Plication Audit
Clinical outcome of arthroscopic capsular
plication for atraumatic instability (Stanmore II)
of the shoulder by a single surgeon, with >12
month follow-up.
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Tablot, Carter & Funk, BESS 2012
22. Patient Satisfaction
• Pre-op: 3.2/10
• Post-op: 8.6 / 10
• with average 82.4% improvement in symptoms
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23. Stanmore Classification
Atraumatic
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Small lesion Repair
Capsular Plications
Polar I
Traumatic Structural
Polar II
Atraumatic Structural
Polar III
Motor Control
Large lesion Repair
Bony
Reconstructions
Rehab +/-
Capsular Plication
Specialist
Rehab.
24. 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
Ms Anju Jaggi
Dr Susan Alexander
Professor Len Funk
Professor Rob Herbert
Associate Professor Karen Ginn
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Rob Herbert
Anju Jaggi
Susan Alexander
Len Funk
26. 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
27. Methodology - Procedure
exclude –
bony damage & RC tear
subjects blinded no capsulolabral damage
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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
exclude –
WOSI, participant perceived improvement & dislocation episodes re-assessed
therapists blinded
assessor blinded
assessor blinded
30. References:
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instability of the anterior and inferior types. J Bone Joint Surg Am . 1991;73: 105-12.Abstract/FREE Full Text
2. Bak K, Spring BJ, Henderson JP. Inferior capsular shift procedure in athletes with multidirectional instability based on
isolated capsular and ligamentous redundancy. Am J Sports Med . 2000;28: 466-71.Abstract/FREE Full Text
3. Flatow EL, Miniaci A, Evans PJ, Simonian PT, Warren RF. Instability of the shoulder: complex problems and failed
repairs: Part II. Failed repairs. Instr Course Lect . 1998;47: 113-25.Medline
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revision problems in shoulder surgery . Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven; 1996. p 9-18.
5.Pagnani MJ, Warren RF, Altchek DW, Wickiewicz TL, Anderson AF. Arthroscopic shoulder stabilization using
transglenoid sutures. A four-year minimum followup. Am J Sports Med . 1996;24: 459-67.
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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
Background: There currently is a wide variation in the definition of multidirectional instability of the shoulder in the literature. The purpose of this study was to determine if these variations influence the distribution of the diagnoses in a cohort of patients with shoulder instability.
Methods: A cohort of 168 patients who underwent shoulder surgery for instability of any type was studied. Statistical analysis was performed in two steps. First, the instability of the shoulder in each patient was classified with the use of four existing systems, and the number of patients classified as having multidirectional instability was compared among the classification systems. Second, the definition of multidirectional instability was modified so that the result of laxity testing was the criterion for making the diagnosis, and the changes in the distribution of patients with a diagnosis of multidirectional instability were analyzed.
Results: Classification with the four existing systems resulted in significant differences in the number of patients diagnosed as having multidirectional instability, with two (1.2%), seven (4.2%), thirteen (7.7%), and fourteen patients (8.3%) so diagnosed (p < 0.05). Modification of the definition of multidirectional instability so that it was based on laxity testing resulted in a wide variation in the number of patients diagnosed as having multidirectional instability; these numbers ranged from fourteen (8.3%) to 139 (82.7%) (p < 0.05).
Conclusions: This study demonstrated that variations in the criteria used for the diagnosis of multidirectional instability significantly affect the distribution of patients with that diagnosis. The use of laxity testing tends to result in an overestimation of the number of patients with this condition. This observation is important because the results of studies may vary if patients with traumatic instability are considered to have multidirectional instability on the basis of laxity testing. Investigators studying patients with multidirectional instability should carefully define the inclusion criteria that they used.
In thirty-six patients (forty shoulders) with involuntary inferior and multidirectional subluxation and dislocation, there had been failure of standard operations or uncertainty regarding diagnosis or treatment. Clinical evaluation of these patients stressed meticulous psychiatric appraisal, conservative treatment, and repeated examination of the shoulder. All patients were treated by an inferior capsular shift, a procedure in which a flap of the capsule reinforced by overlying tendon is shifted to reduce capsular and ligamentous redundancy on all three sides. This technique offers the advantage of correcting multidirectional instability through one incision without damage to the articular surface. One shoulder began subluxating again within seven months after operation, but there have been no other unsatisfactory results to date. Seventeen shoulders were followed for more than two years.
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