Functional Results Of Arthroscopic Bankart Repair Of Traumatic Recurrent Shoulder Instability Patients

The purpose of this study was to present, through a retrospective case series, results of the patients who were treated arthroscopically for anterior glenohumeral instability. We evaluated 41 patients. Mean follow-up of the patients were 45 months (range 32-80). There were 4 (10%) female and 37 (90%) male with a mean age of 32 (range 24- 44). There were 27 (65%) right and 14 (35%) left shoulders. Dominant side was injured in 25 patients. All of the patients were suffered from a traumatic shoulder dislocation. Many etiological factors are responsible for these traumatic dislocations like swimming, falling on the side while playing soccer or volleyball or a direct trauma to the shoulder. MRI was performed before the surgery and it was found to be a Bankart lesion for all the patients. Also, all patients were evaluated according to Rowe and Constant scores. Postoperatively, mean Rowe score was 87 (range 15-100) and mean Constant score was 95 (range 88-100). Excellent resuls were obtained in 33 (80.5) patients. There were 8 (19.5) patients of recurrences and 2 of them had arthroscopic revision surgery and Laterjet procedure was performed for the latter 2 patients. Arthroscopic shoulder surgery is a long learning curve, requiring the training process but also has the advantages of less bleeding, easy rehabilitation and wound healing. As a result, this effective method can be performed for recurrent shoulder instability patients with less complication rates.