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A 20-year-old man presents 3-months after a rugby injury. He made a tackle with his arm out to the side and felt a clunk in his shoulder. Since the acute injury has settled, he had felt that his shoulder is clunking when he played tennis and other activities with his arm overhead and extended to the side. His shoulder feels weak with a “dead arm” sensation with overhead activities or when reaching forward to lift a weight. He is otherwise fit and healthy with no evidence of generalised ligamentous laxity. On clinical assessment, the range of motion is well preserved although he feels apprehensive during terminal abduction and external rotation. Apprehension test, relocation test and anterior load and shift tests are all positive.
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Mandaleson, A. (2017). Anterior Instability. In: Monga, P., Funk, L. (eds) Diagnostic Clusters in Shoulder Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57334-2_27
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