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. 2021 Nov 16;18(22):12026.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph182212026.

Instability Severity Index Score Does Not Predict the Risk of Shoulder Dislocation after a First Episode Treated Conservatively

Umile Giuseppe Longo  1 , Rocco Papalia  1 , Gianluca Ciapini  2 , Sergio De Salvatore  1 , Carlo Casciaro  1 , Elisa Ferrari  3 , Fabio Cosseddu  3 , Michele Novi  3 , Ilaria Piergentili  1 , Paolo Parchi  2 , Michelangelo Scaglione  3 , Vincenzo Denaro  1
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Instability Severity Index Score Does Not Predict the Risk of Shoulder Dislocation after a First Episode Treated Conservatively

Umile Giuseppe Longo et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The first purpose of this study was to verify the association between Instability Severity Index Score (ISIS) and Recurrent Shoulder Dislocation (RSD) after a first episode treated conservatively. The second aim is to identify the risk factors associated with RSD after a primary acute shoulder anterior dislocation treated conservatively. A total of 111 patients with first traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation treated at a single trauma centre between January 2014 and March 2016 were enrolled. The main predictive variables of risk factors and the ISIS score were calculated. Among the 85 patients included, 26 cases of RSD were observed (30.6%). Considering the whole population, no significant association between ISIS and RSD were reported. Regarding other risk factors, high-risk working activities and rotator cuff injury had a significantly higher RSD risk. Sex, dominant limb, familiar history, hyperlaxity, contact or overhead sports, competitive sport, post-reduction physiokinesitherapy, return to sports activity time, Hill-Sachs lesion, bony Bankart lesion and great tuberosity fracture did not seem to influence the risk of RSD. No correlation between ISIS score and RSD in patients treated conservatively after a first episode of shoulder dislocation were reported. The only risk factors with a significant association to RSD were high-risk working activities and rotator cuff injury.

Keywords: ISIS; Instability Severity Index; conservative; predictivity; recurrent dislocation; risk factor; shoulder dislocation; shoulder instability; surgery.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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