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Shoulder Dislocation (cont.)

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Author: John P. Cunha, DO

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD

Previous contributing authors and editors: Author: David A Halperin, MD, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University Medical School; Consulting Staff, Department of Emergency Medicine, Memorial Hospital of South Bend.

Editors: Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM, Research Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Jeter (Jay) Pritchard Taylor III, MD, Vice-Chief, Compliance Officer, Attending Physician Emergency Medicine Residency, Department of Emergency Medicine, Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital, University of South Carolina.


Last Editorial Review: 9/26/2007

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Shoulder dislocations may occur from a traumatic injury or from loose capsular ligaments.

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