tends to irritate this type of injury. Subluxation is another word for a partially dislocated shoulder. This differs from a dislocation, which occurs when the shoulder comes completely out of place.

Shoulder instability can disrupt your daily life ... There are pluses and minuses of being more or less aggressive with this type of injury. Jumping in early might be right for one but might not be ...

This paper discusses a classification system proposing three types of shoulder instability recognising the structural and non-structural components and that a continuum exists between pathologies.

There is a need for a well-structured randomised control trial to assess the efficacy of surgical and non-surgical interventions for this common type of shoulder instability.