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Shoulder Instability

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This chapter discusses the principles in diagnosing, describing, classifying, investigating and managing instability around the shoulder, with emphasis on the need to differentiate between instability and laxity.

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Panayiotou Charalambous, C. (2019). Shoulder Instability. In: The Shoulder Made Easy . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98908-2_14

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