Return to Play Criteria After Shoulder Dislocation in Upper Limb Athletes: Critical Analysis Between the Habits of Medical Professionals and the Literature

University of Liege

Status

Completed

Conditions

Survey and Questionnaire

Shoulder Dislocation

Return to Sport

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04387188

16042020

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: Identify the criteria employed by sports medicine specialists in assessing the aptitude/inaptitude of an overhead athlete to return to competition following an antero-internal dislocation of the glenohumeral joint that has been operated or not.

Materials and methods: The target population consisted of French-speaking physicians in orthopedic surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation or sports medicine. This study was conducted by the means of a questionnaire. The list of the most relevant criteria to be included in the questionnaire was established following a literature review.

Enrollment

63 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria