The following symptoms and complaints may indicate dislocation:
Leading symptoms
- Painful restriction/elimination of motion of the affected joint.
- The affected joint is held in a gentle posture
The following symptoms and complaints may indicate shoulder dislocation:
Leading symptoms
- Shoulder joint is fixed springy, there is a spontaneous and movement pain.
- Arm is usually in abduction (leading away or spreading a part of the body away from the center of the body) and external rotation (away from the body, lateral/lateral, rotated) in anterior dislocation; the affected arm is held with the healthy arm
- In up to ten percent of cases, there is concomitant nerve injury to the axillary nerve (“axillary nerve”)
