Dr. Mark Jeffrey Klion, MD

I think that most qualified orthopedic surgeons can mange your daughters issue. Many orthopedic surgeons are sports medicine trained. If the sports medicine physician is not an orthopedist, I would not have them see a fracture, especially in an adolescent.

This can certainly be an issue. Studies indicate that individuals who dislocate their shoulder and are under the age of 20 have a 90% chance of recurrent dislocation, meaning it will come out again. Once someone has dislocated more than once they fall into a category of recurrent dislocator. If left untreated most of the time this becomes a quality-of-life issue in that with each subsequent dislocation it happens with less and less trauma. These are cases that should be indicated initially with physical therapy but often after obtaining an MRI scan and revealing a tear of what is referred to as the labrum surgery should be contemplated to restore stability