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First time dislocation 15-Jun-2009 At 12:22:50 PM evanbb

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On 14/06/2009 jaebo wrote:
>it actually sounds like you've had a subluxation, not a full dislocation

I was wondering about that as well. When i was young, skinny and weak though, I dislocated a few times and got it back in myself. Then I often went for a little spew i the dunnies. As far as I know it's essentially the same mechanism; the humeral head sliding off the glenoid labrum (the cup) out of the rotator cuff, but the sublux doesn't go quite all the way out, sort of wobbles on the edge and goes back in. In a dislo it gets right past the edge, and then pulls 'back into place', except that it's not on the cup now, and squishes in against the edge of it. This feels 'wrong' initially, but doesn't hurt a whole lot. Half an hour into it though, the fun starts to decrease exponentially.