Traumatic Shoulder Instability: Translating research into clinical practice

This course is designed for physiotherapists, sports medicine physicians and athletic trainers who work with patients with traumatic shoulder instability. This course contains over 5 hours of lectures and interactive activities for you to maximise your learning. It steps you sequentially through all the components of the assessment and treatment of people with traumatic shoulder instability, with clinical tips and examples along the way to maximise your understanding and enable you to integrate this into clinical practice.

1. Pathological lesions of the shoulder
   1. Understanding the pathology of shoulder instability and how it affects recurrence
2. Assessment of the patient with traumatic shoulder instability
   1. Subjective assessment - clinical tips for increasing the accuracy and efficiency of your subjective assessment
   2. Objective assessment - what clinical tests to use and when they are useful
   3. Making sense of it all - using the assessment to create meaningful baseline measures and diagnosing your patient
3. Treatment of the patient with traumatic shoulder instability
   1. Outline of the traumatic instability algorithm which details:
      1. anterior shoulder dislocation protocol
      2. subscapularis treatment approach in instability
      3. infraspinatus treatment approach in instability
      4. posterior shoulder considerations
      5. co-contraction protocol

• Pathological lesions of shoulder instability
• Assessment of the patient with traumatic shoulder instability
• Treatment of the patient with traumatic shoulder instability