Acute rehabilitation after traumatic shoulder dislocation

Most anterior shoulder dislocations occur for the first time related to sports (59% 1 to 74% 2 ), or from falls. 1 Following closed reduction, primary care for these injuries involves a supportive sling and individually tailored advice for optimising recovery such as rehabilitative exercises to improve range of motion, sensorimotor control, strength, and function.To inform decision making, a linked BMJ paper by Kearney and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj