The diagnosis is made ??on the ground. After a fall on the shoulder at the tackle generally, the player complained of a sharp pain in the shoulder, with the failure of the move. It is maintained spontaneously by the opposite arm. Felt a "ball" between the deltoid and pectoralis matching the humeral head dislocated forward. The arm is spontaneously eliminated from the body but can not move because of the intense pain.

Rugby player with a dislocated right shoulder

IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO HANDLE ARM ATTEMPT.

If there is a fracture and not a dislocation, the risk is to move the fracture and create irreversible damage to the shoulder.

Then, wait for help to arrive, which will transport the player to an emergency service. Firefighters, a doctor or an ambulance will help the player get up, hold the arm in the position and if the pain allows, protecting it in a scarf, or simply wrap the shirt around the arm.

TO EMERGENCIES

An x-ray is necessary and indispensable to confirm the diagnosis and rule out other diagnoses (including fractures).

Luxation is the dislocation of the joint between the humerus and scapula.

The plating is involved in 2/3 of cases. Or if it concerns the tackled player (75% of cases), while falling to the ground with direct trauma on the top of the shoulder or at the tackle (25% of cases) with the arm position is reinforced hit by the tackled player. 62% of dislocations are recurrences.

Reminder on the shoulder dislocation:

The dislocation is severe trauma that systematically generates anatomical lesions of the joint.

Most often (90% of cases) the dislocation is in front of the joint, on in the armed movement, arm and elbow back. More rarely, back, arms forward, the elbow directly impacted from front to back.

The consequences of dislocation

The gleno humeral joint (between the humeral bone and shoulder blade) is held by the tendons of shoulder muscles, ligaments, capsular shell, with a reinforcement around the scapula called "bead".

The shoulder is a very mobile joint, in the various spatial planes. This mobility is necessarily accompanied by a risk of instability.

Each dislocation, there is damage to the ligaments of the bead, or lesions type fracture. The passage of the head of the humerus "in force" can lead to fracture of the posterior part of the humeral head and / or front of the shoulder blade.

Others feared complications are fractures and nerve damage. The nerves can be stretched or cut less frequently. Generally, the axillary nerve is stretched: which causes anesthesia of the shoulder and a deficit of forward flexion of the shoulder deficiency of the anterior bundle of deltoid. More rarely, it is all the nerves of the arm called the brachial plexus, which can be stretched or broken, resulting in paralysis of the whole arm.

The risks of dislocation