What is a dislocated shoulder?
Your shoulder joint is made up of three bones: your collarbone, your shoulder blade, and your upper arm bone. The top of your upper arm bone is shaped like a ball. This ball fits into a cuplike socket in your shoulder blade. A shoulder dislocation is an injury that happens when the ball pops out of your socket. A dislocation may be partial, where the ball is only partially out of the socket. It can also be a full dislocation, where the ball is completely out of the socket.
What causes a dislocated shoulder?
Your shoulders are the most movable joints in your body. They are also the most commonly dislocated joints.
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- ... shoulder blade (the socket). When you have a dislocated shoulder, it means the entire ball is out of the socket. When you have a partly dislocated shoulder, it means only part of the ball is ...
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- Dislocated Shoulder (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)Dislocated Shoulder/Start Here ... In a shoulder dislocation, the head of the upper arm bone (humerus) may come either partially or completely out of the socket. ...
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- Shoulder Trauma (Fractures and Dislocations) (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)Dislocated Shoulder/Specifics ... upper arm bone), or the scapula (shoulder blade). Shoulder dislocations can involve any of the three different joints ...
- ... not the same as a shoulder dislocation. A dislocated shoulder occurs when the arm bone comes out of ...
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