title: Return to Play Following Anterior Shoulder Dislocation and Stabilization Surgery.
abstract: Anterior shoulder instability in athletes may lead to time lost from participation and decreases in level of play. Contact, collision, and overhead athletes are at a higher risk than others. Athletes may successfully be returned to play but operative stabilization should be considered for long-term treatment of recurrent instability. Open and arthroscopic stabilization procedures for athletes with less than 20% to 25% bone loss improve return to play rates and decrease recurrent instability, with a slightly lower recurrence with open stabilization. For athletes with greater than 20% to 25% bone loss, an open osseous augmentation procedure should be considered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Building 19, Floor 2, 8901 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20889, USA.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Donohue
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Brown Alpert Medical School, 100 Butler Drive, Providence, RI 02906, USA.
authors.forename: Brett D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Owens
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Building 19, Floor 2, 8901 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20889, USA. Electronic address: jonathan.f.dickens.mil@mail.mil.
authors.forename: Jonathan F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Dickens
mesh_terms: D001182:Arthroscopy; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007593:Joint Instability / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D000068958:Return to Sport; D012782:Shoulder / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D012783:Shoulder Dislocation / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Bankart; Dislocation; Instability; Return to play; Shoulder; Sports; Subluxation